What if you go over 72 hours of dark before harvest?

Is it good or bad for your plants to be in the dark over 72 hours? Does it hurt the plant badly if it goes too long? Thank you.

It's not going to hurt your plant!

i have done this 3 4 times indoor to be honest it doest really do shit for the plant mabye stress it out a little give u more chance of hermie but i have tryed it indoor a few times doest really matter in weight diff i mabye got a half an o more from the ones i did 72 for but i found just aggressive feeding seems to work alot better i like to leave my girls 48 hours in complete darkness be4 i pull to get that resin going but i found molasses or even honey seems to work better then the darkness thing if u wanna really blow some minds add some food colouring to ur rez change the colour of them

Hermie 3 days before harvest? I don't know about that! you feed right before harvest? Food coloring? Don't follow any of this advice! ^^^^^^^ is that you Finn? I hope you're joking about coloring right?

well i was thinking he wanted to do 72 or 48 be4 he switched 12/12 but buy the look of u mate u dont get outside much so i wouldent bother with ur input

well yes i do feed up to harvest organics as i said u dont get outside much

food colouring yes why not i dident say it would tast great but it looks cool

lol kids

anyway, you can keep your plant in the dark for however long you want, just watch out for mold

Lol! Food coloring? And you grow organically? Ha! Dude, don't add food coloring! And don't go recommending that shit here. Never even heard of such a thing!

Any coloring to plants should happen only with genetics or temperature manipulation.

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Breezee77 said:

Is it good or bad for your plants to be in the dark over 72 hours? Does it hurt the plant badly if it goes too long? Thank you.

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If you have 72 hours of dark .... you just wasted 72 hours... that's all... nothing else...

Sand4x105 said:

If you have 72 hours of dark .... you just wasted 72 hours... that's all... nothing else...

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That kind of makes sense as plants store
energy during lights on and would surely
run out after a while.

They still transpire during dark period a little bit and build cells during this time as well, this is where we usually see the growth in a plant . I think This is the ideal that people run with. 72 hours won't hurt your plant, however it may be a bit redundant since there is no empirical data to back up these extra dark time before harvest claims! Go for it and report back!









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charface said:

That kind of makes sense as plants store
energy during lights on and would surely
run out after a while.

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Nobody would run this experiment, however, when you ask, or do something like the OP asked...
Ask yourself:
"How much better could this 72 hours of dark help my plant..."
It's a 72 hour period of time..
So would your plant be better if it had 72 MORE hours of nice lighting....
Or would it be better with 72 hours of 12/12 ...
No one could ever answer why or which way would be better...
It's like 1/50th of your grow time...
Ask yourself: "Changing anything in my plant for 72 hours...do I think anything done to my plant in a 72 hours block of time will make a difference..."

Answer... Not Really...

At the end stage of your plant, why would anyone... want to mess around...

Pop, chewberto get on a diet you're surely way too fat to even type on a keyboard. Can't believe that guy really thinks that's you in your avatar.

^su said:

Pop, chewberto get on a diet you're surely way too fat to even type on a keyboard. Can't believe that guy really thinks that's you in your avatar.

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Thanks a lot for the impute everyone!!!! I didn't know it was going to cause chao! So that if you took it to he extreme and just left your plants like that for like 2 weeks... what would happen... Can they dry like that or not?

They run out after 12 hours dark exactly. The leaves store only enough starch during the day to get through one anticipated night length (12 hours if you're 12/12).

After being in the dark for longer than 12 hours, the plant simply stops growing as it has no starch reserves left.

It makes sense to harvest at the end of a 12 hour dark period because all the leaf starch will be burned and the cured product will theoretically be smoother. Anything after 12 hours could be seen as unnecessary.

charface said:

That kind of makes sense as plants store
energy during lights on and would surely
run out after a while.

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