when to harvest day or night?

lampshade said:

You want to cut in the middle of the night or right before sunrise. At night plants send all there carbs and excess nutes down to the roots. In the morning they move them back to the leaves. If you cut at night, then all of these *contaminants* will be in the roots and not in your smoke.

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I'm gonna have to call bullshit on this one. You flush your plants a couple weeks before harvest which gets rid of the excess nutes. It doesn't mater when you harvest!

Although you flush away most of the fertz in the last few weeks does not mean that the plant stops producing toxins. It's still breaking down sugars and shit, still producing toxins as a by product of being alive.

What are you guys talking about, are you pulling this info out of your ass?
Lampshade you talk about contaminant what is that supposed to mean?
And IKA667 what toxins are you talking about? The plant lets off water vapor and oxygen as a byproduct of transpiration, I would not call that toxins...

well ika667 where's your evidence for this claim?

OK, first of all, chill out. I was having a conversation with lampshade, if you look at page 2. It's all theory to me because I haven't seen the books, but lampshade has. Anyway, go read page 2 before you start calling people out please.

I heard from a friend of a friend...
You guys are jst speculating, there is no truth to what you are saying. Herb plants don't produce toxins or "contaminants"...

Yes they do, how do you think they fight against certain parasites?

ika667 said:

Yes they do, how do you think they fight against certain parasites?

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The more you post then worse your arguments are. Plants fend off parasites by having a healthy immune sytem. They also produce terpenes which some say helps fend off mold. Terpenes are far from toxins though.
Herb plants do not produce toxins.

I'm done, you have no idea what you are talking about. Why don't you read up...

I don't know why your so closed minded about it all, what do you have to prove so?

All I'm saying s your basing your argument on pure speculation, you have no evidence to back up anything you are saying, it is complete bunk.
If the plants produced toxins, how would we be able to smoke it?

Rather than just bash people and tell them that they have no clue what they're talking about, try educating them so that they know better. You know it all, prove your stuff by posting links and enlighten us oh great one.

I never said that what I'm saying is concrete.

All you guys crack me up. I swear you would think this is a fourum about alcohol. I thought weed chilled you out. Anyways if you will notice guys contaminants was in quotes. Sugars are good for the plant, but pack a bowl of sugar and smoke it, its not sweet, its bitter. Its CARBON & NITROGEN. Nitrogen gives weed that hay smell and taste and also and ammonia taste. (some people like the ammonia=cat piss). Anyways i will find some links i just want to know that noone is bashing anyone. I promise, that plants do transport all of their sugras down to the roots at night. Im talking about beets, corn, grass, trees... It doesnt matter. Slowly as morning approaches they begin to transport them back to there leaves.

At night plants transpire less, so there is less of a pumping mechanism that pulls the sugars up.

http://www.hydroempire.com/store/hydroponic-plant-parts.php

Go down to Oxygen second sentence.
Go down to leaves Second sentence.


"he roots do a great deal of their storage developing at night when the green sections of the plant are not being pressured by the light to produce and distribute the day's excess sugar to the roots. "

"At night, the leaves transfer as much stored energy as possible to the roots. The healthier the leaves and the leaf stems are, the more energy they have to transfer into storage within the plant."

Thanks Lampshade

No prob anytime.

That was one great entertaining string there boys..(maybe girls). I didn't see it as anyone bashing anyone. Everyone had great points and if I were a jury,...every time I read someone's argument, I would side with them. I think the "shade man" got it in the end.

Great thread, very entertaining.. cept for the fact that if ppl come on here looking for solid info there is none basically.

That bit about leaves storing nutes back down to their roots at night... well buds are considered to be the fruit right? and if the leaves are the part of the plants that gather energy for the growth of the buds, I don't see how it makes a difference that the leaves transer shit ??? am I going crazy?

I'm at about 90% red hairs and i'd say about 50/50 amber and cloudy. Haven't watered since saturday.. and now goin for 72 hours of darkness then i'm cuttin...old school guyws say this really bring out the trich...