Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20151130020049/@comment-1916997-20151201015018

8Rob wrote: Oh and it took only a few hours to cast it

In season 1, we saw it took at least 9 months to do it It didn't take 9 months, Regina is just fail-tastic and used a horse's heart, instead of her father's. When she actually used her father's heart, the curse activated immediatly.