How Many Hours Of Darkness Should I Leave My Plants In Before I Chop?

littleflavio

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3-5 days with iced cold watering to shock the plants. i have read it in a magazine, i will try to this on one of my plants getting chopped tomorrow, been watering iced cold water for 2 days now...i guess it wouldnt hurt to try
 

homebrewer

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im goin on my 3rd harvest but so far I never let my plants stay in darkness b4 i chopped them down, but ive been reading that you should leave them in darkness for a period of time b4 you harvest, does anyone have a good idea of how many hours of darkness I should keep them in b4 i chop....thanks
Experienced growers don't do these sorts of wives tales, only the beginners. Try it for yourself and conduct a blind test with clones and friends. No one will be able to tell the difference between the product that was harvested immediately and the product that was exposed to a dark period at harvest.
 

guitarzan

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It got unusually cold up here this late summer...I have one lady left about 6 feet tall...not sure exactly what the strain is. It looks like a sativa/indica cross because of the fairly skinny leaves. Buds all over, but there could be more, and they could get fatter. It looks like it could grow for a couple more weeks at least, but the temps are quite low these days...about low 70's/high 60's in the day. At night, and on rainy days, it stays in the tin shed in the dark with an electric oil heater in there with her. Due to the lower cooler temps outside, I'm thinking that babysitting her everyday would be literally fruitless. I always think she'll get a bit bigger and better...what usually happens, is that I let them go past the point of harvesting...trying to get another gram of bud or something. Feel sorry for killing her...can you believe that? Should I hang in there for that last bit of fall spectrum of sunlight? She gets the sun until the very end because it sits facing the south-west as the sun sets across the lake, so I heard that fall red spectrum is something buds crave in their later days before harvesting. WTF should I do all you botanists? Thanks either way folks, and happily reap what you sow eh.
 

smokin_ kills

New Member
im goin on my 3rd harvest but so far I never let my plants stay in darkness b4 i chopped them down, but ive been reading that you should leave them in darkness for a period of time b4 you harvest, does anyone have a good idea of how many hours of darkness I should keep them in b4 i chop....thanks
 

smokin_ kills

New Member
im goin on my 3rd harvest but so far I never let my plants stay in darkness b4 i chopped them down, but ive been reading that you should leave them in darkness for a period of time b4 you harvest, does anyone have a good idea of how many hours of darkness I should keep them in b4 i chop....thanks
 
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