a few days of dark before harvest???

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Brown_Thumb

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Sorry to unravel an old thread but I figured this is a good place to post my very limited experience regarding dark periods prior to harvest.

1. I'm a noob so take what I write with a grain of salt.
2. I only did this once.

I had fourteen plants nearing harvest time. Four of them had mostly milky trichomes with about twenty-five percent amber. I placed those four plants in a darkened cool room (not totally dark). They stayed there for seven days without any obvious changes. I guess there was a bit too much light coming through a small window in the adjacent room (no door between). However, at the end of seven days, when I looked again at the trichomes, they had all turn completely clear again... maybe a very light beige tint to a few trichomes. I could swear the trichomes looked larger (fuller?) too but that might have been my imagination. There wasn't a trace of milkiness or amber. So I returned the plants outside. Within two or three days, all fourteen plants were ready to harvest.

I haven't a clue if the dark period 'helped' because the plants became jumbled at harvest time. BUT... the trichomes definitely returned to their completely clear state while in the cool darkened room. I did water them one time about two or three days after they were moved inside but the soil was slightly dry when I first moved them.
 
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Budget Buds

Budget Buds

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Brown_Thumb said:
Sorry to unravel an old thread but I figured this is a good place to post my very limited experience regarding dark periods prior to harvest.

1. I'm a noob so take what I write with a grain of salt.
2. I only did this once.

I had fourteen plants nearing harvest time. Four of them had mostly milky trichomes with about twenty-five percent amber. I placed those four plants in a darkened cool room (not totally dark). They stayed there for seven days without any obvious changes. I guess there was a bit too much light coming through a small window in the adjacent room (no door between). However, when I looked again at the trichomes, they had all turn completely clear again. There wasn't a trace of milkiness or amber. So I returned the plants outside. Within a couple of days, all fourteen plants were ready to harvest.

I haven't a clue if the dark period 'helped' because the plants became jumbled at harvest time. BUT... the trichomes definitely returned to their completely clear state while in the cool darkened room. I did water them one time about two or three days inside but the soil was slightly dry when I moved the plants inside.
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Cause it hindered not helped, I guess I could see 24 hours of dark to help clear chlorophyll production but damn a week and your plants didnt turn into vampires ???
 
clouds

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i have never done this for flowering but i do know a day or two of night during veg helps roots grow. but i dont know if it will add stress to the plant. i use to do this years ago to make my plants root faster after transplanting or cloning. but the dark confuses the roots and they will grow out the bottom of the container as well as around and at the surface of the soil. from what i seen playing around with plants of different kinds some above plant growth is done at night but its mostly repair and under the soil growth during the day above the soil grows. even watching day and night time lapse videos it shows most the day is when the plant grows and moves and at night things slowdown. as thc is made to protect from uv light it makes sense at night the plant gains some as that was the stuff that would of been lost as soon as light hit it during the day time. but would you still lose this as it hits light as your trimm?
 
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Brown_Thumb

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Budget Buds, yes the plants were in a cool darkened (not super-dark and not cold) closet for a full week. They stayed green and the trichomes returned to clear. Again, I only tried this one time.
 
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CBD:
cannabidiol - previously believed to be psychoactive, or to contribute to the high by interacting with other cannabinoids, conversely the most recent research indicates that CBD has negligible effect on the high, it is however a strong anti-inflammatory, and may take the edge off some THC effects, such as anxiety. CBD as a non-psychoactive cannabinoid appears to be helpful for many medical conditions. CBD biosynthesizes into cannabinol (CBN) & tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).

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SickboyDilligaf

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Brick Top said:
The Stichting Institute of medical Marijuana (SIMM), the first company to sell marijuana through the pharmicies of Holland, has been investigating the medical possibilities of cannabis, together with TNO laboritories and the University of Leiden.

One of their discoveries has been that to keep the ripe plants in the dark before harvesting could increase their potency.

SIMM's growers seperated a crop of mature plants, harvested half of them and kept the other half in absolute darkness for 72 hours before cutting and drying.

Analysis of the resulting dried buds showed that some varieties had seen increases of THC of up to 30 %, while the CBD and CBN remained the same.
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Link to this Please Someone
 
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LinguaPeel

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SickboyDilligaf said:
Link to this Please Someone
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Why? Just try it.
Let me guess, investors need documented scientific proof. You cant simple observe reality for yourself when working for someone else huh.
Kingrow1 said:
You will find there probably isnt a valid link and a different world back then.

No one uses an extended dark period really and it will make very little difference otherwise we would all be doing it after one try :-)
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Most people ON THE INTERNET FORUMS grow shit weed, and most advanced technique is going to appear like voodoo to them, because it doesn't apply to their chemmed up low metabolite weed.

The rest of us, outside of the internet circle jerk, fade our plants. We grow in rabbit shit and pond scum. And have no idea what pesticides are until we smell them on Internet growers weed,

Youre forgetting that every myth in the entire world is nothing but your inability to understand that reality it's based on. Religion is a perfect example. Most people think it's baseless, because they don't understand the basis. They've created the myth. Arguing the existence of Jesus is arguing the existence of the sun. Arguing the existence of naturally grown Cannabis is like arguing the existence of nature. Thats literally all I could think of when moving to a closet, how am i gonna build upon nature, compensate for a lack of nature instead of stripping this plant away from nature?

Banding is real, flushing is real, boiling roots is real, you just don't understand the basis behind, because people who know these things instinctively don't keep an Advanced Nutrients article on hand to sway the unsorted unhardened masses. They qualified will experience reality first hand, not through religious lore discrediting or affirming reality.
 
Kingrow1

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The old protagonists of the flush stated you need near perfect green plants to make it work.

If pros flush im down with that and support their way :-)




LinguaPeel said:
Why? Just try it.
Let me guess, investors need documented scientific proof. You cant simple observe reality for yourself when working for someone else huh.


Most people ON THE INTERNET FORUMS grow shit weed, and most advanced technique is going to appear like voodoo to them, because it doesn't apply to their chemmed up low metabolite weed.

The rest of us, outside of the internet circle jerk, fade our plants. We grow in rabbit shit and pond scum. And have no idea what pesticides are until we smell them on Internet growers weed,

Youre forgetting that every myth in the entire world is nothing but your inability to understand that reality it's based on. Religion is a perfect example. Most people think it's baseless, because they don't understand the basis. They've created the myth. Arguing the existence of Jesus is arguing the existence of the sun. Arguing the existence of naturally grown Cannabis is like arguing the existence of nature. Thats literally all I could think of when moving to a closet, how am i gonna build upon nature, compensate for a lack of nature instead of stripping this plant away from nature?

Banding is real, flushing is real, boiling roots is real, you just don't understand the basis behind, because people who know these things instinctively don't keep an Advanced Nutrients article on hand to sway the unsorted unhardened masses. They qualified will experience reality first hand, not through religious lore discrediting or affirming reality.
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SickboyDilligaf

SickboyDilligaf

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LinguaPeel said:
Why? Just try it.
Let me guess, investors need documented scientific proof. You cant simple observe reality for yourself when working for someone else huh.


Most people ON THE INTERNET FORUMS grow shit weed, and most advanced technique is going to appear like voodoo to them, because it doesn't apply to their chemmed up low metabolite weed.

The rest of us, outside of the internet circle jerk, fade our plants. We grow in rabbit shit and pond scum. And have no idea what pesticides are until we smell them on Internet growers weed,

Youre forgetting that every myth in the entire world is nothing but your inability to understand that reality it's based on. Religion is a perfect example. Most people think it's baseless, because they don't understand the basis. They've created the myth. Arguing the existence of Jesus is arguing the existence of the sun. Arguing the existence of naturally grown Cannabis is like arguing the existence of nature. Thats literally all I could think of when moving to a closet, how am i gonna build upon nature, compensate for a lack of nature instead of stripping this plant away from nature?

Banding is real, flushing is real, boiling roots is real, you just don't understand the basis behind, because people who know these things instinctively don't keep an Advanced Nutrients article on hand to sway the unsorted unhardened masses. They qualified will experience reality first hand, not through religious lore discrediting or affirming reality.
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Simply because I got some douche that is closed minded. I’m already 30 hrs in dark but thanks.
 
SickboyDilligaf

SickboyDilligaf

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LinguaPeel said:
Why? Just try it.
Let me guess, investors need documented scientific proof. You cant simple observe reality for yourself when working for someone else huh.


Most people ON THE INTERNET FORUMS grow shit weed, and most advanced technique is going to appear like voodoo to them, because it doesn't apply to their chemmed up low metabolite weed.

The rest of us, outside of the internet circle jerk, fade our plants. We grow in rabbit shit and pond scum. And have no idea what pesticides are until we smell them on Internet growers weed,

Youre forgetting that every myth in the entire world is nothing but your inability to understand that reality it's based on. Religion is a perfect example. Most people think it's baseless, because they don't understand the basis. They've created the myth. Arguing the existence of Jesus is arguing the existence of the sun. Arguing the existence of naturally grown Cannabis is like arguing the existence of nature. Thats literally all I could think of when moving to a closet, how am i gonna build upon nature, compensate for a lack of nature instead of stripping this plant away from nature?

Banding is real, flushing is real, boiling roots is real, you just don't understand the basis behind, because people who know these things instinctively don't keep an Advanced Nutrients article on hand to sway the unsorted unhardened masses. They qualified will experience reality first hand, not through religious lore discrediting or affirming reality.
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also does my name sound like a investor. I’m a newbie. FD8CED56-A2D4-4FA1-8C08-4B14F479D12D.jpeg98E591E8-66C7-4958-8D14-786A13269F9C.jpeg248EB000-ABDE-461E-9B79-36EA1CDA10B0.jpeg
 
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KryptoBud

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LinguaPeel said:
Why? Just try it.
Let me guess, investors need documented scientific proof. You cant simple observe reality for yourself when working for someone else huh.


Most people ON THE INTERNET FORUMS grow shit weed, and most advanced technique is going to appear like voodoo to them, because it doesn't apply to their chemmed up low metabolite weed.

The rest of us, outside of the internet circle jerk, fade our plants. We grow in rabbit shit and pond scum. And have no idea what pesticides are until we smell them on Internet growers weed,

Youre forgetting that every myth in the entire world is nothing but your inability to understand that reality it's based on. Religion is a perfect example. Most people think it's baseless, because they don't understand the basis. They've created the myth. Arguing the existence of Jesus is arguing the existence of the sun. Arguing the existence of naturally grown Cannabis is like arguing the existence of nature. Thats literally all I could think of when moving to a closet, how am i gonna build upon nature, compensate for a lack of nature instead of stripping this plant away from nature?

Banding is real, flushing is real, boiling roots is real, you just don't understand the basis behind, because people who know these things instinctively don't keep an Advanced Nutrients article on hand to sway the unsorted unhardened masses. They qualified will experience reality first hand, not through religious lore discrediting or affirming reality.
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don't forget to hang the plant upside down so the thc drains into the bud.
 
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