Dark just before harvest?

Darkness for the last 48/72 hours is a load of shit. It's either good weed or it's not

PopAndSonGrows said:

The Mr GrowIt episode? Maybe you should rewatch his channel, he recently did an interview with Dr Bruce Bugbee that kinda blew that out of the water. ...soon, Mr GrowIt will be trying 48 hours of LIGHT at harvest.

Science is funny like that.

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I will. Thanks!

TherealMickey said:

I've read and listened to reports on flushing before harvest and it seems the biggest benefit is that it removes some chlorophyll. Since light increases chlorophyll I was thinking about doing 72 hours of darkness just before cutting. Has anyone tried this?

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I seen mrcanuckgrows on YouTube talk ab how 48 hrs of darkness before harvest helps the plants increase terpene production so i also wanna know this. It was the 33:37 min vid he did 8 months ago. Id post a link but idk policies on riu here. Not tryna get banned lol. The flowers looked incredible. One was a blueberry fritter n I’d love to get that strain someday

Cured flower from Cherry Diesel was evaluated by a group of industry experts for flavor and smoking characteristics in a blind taste test. Overall, the duration of the flushing period had no impact on flavor, smoothness of smoke, or color of ash (Figure 5a-d) (P < 0.05). The seven-day flush period had the highest “bad” rating (21.1%) and the 0-day flush had the highest “great” rating (16.7%). Most panelists rated the flavor of the samples as “okay” or “good”. The ten-day flush had the highest “okay” ratings at 48.6% and the 0-day flush had the highest “good” rating at 47.2% (Figure 4a).


Here is a good read. Remember that if you take away nutrients you're slowing down the growth. The same couple weeks is where you get your density. If you want to figure it out yourself that is good, but I'd recommended reading this and then watching Mr. Growit's video with Dr. Bugbee.

He talks about both nutrients and darkness.. Will explain it all

2absolute2purity2 said:

I seen mrcanuckgrows on YouTube talk ab how 48 hrs of darkness before harvest helps the plants increase terpene production so i also wanna know this. It was the 33:37 min vid he did 8 months ago. Id post a link but idk policies on riu here. Not tryna get banned lol. The flowers looked incredible. One was a blueberry fritter n I’d love to get that strain someday

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See my comment above. Mr. Canuckgrows gives misinformation a lot .. I use to watch him until I learned the difference XD

who would you believe.. A REAL doctor or a guy who does youtube videos talking about medical stuff?? Your choice will show in the results

I usually chop right before lights on because, we’ll i don’t know why other than someone suggested it and their reasoning seemed sound(fuck if I could remember what it was )
And even if it makes no positive difference it doesn’t make a negative one either.

It normally takes me 2-4 hours to harvest my room. Should I be doing this in pitch dark for better results?

i usually do 24-48 hours of dark i saw some tests something happens. but maybe its just 2 days of life.... but whatever its like a ritual doesn't cost me anything nothing to lose.

bk78 said:

It normally takes me 2-4 hours to harvest my room. Should I be doing this in pitch dark for better results?

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That sounds like more trouble than it’s worth lol but you already know that.

bk78 said:

It normally takes me 2-4 hours to harvest my room. Should I be doing this in pitch dark for better results?

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kill it in the dark leave the room for 7 minutes soo last of her life goes out then you are safe to do it in the light XD

One should only harvest under the light of the Green Moon, after the setting of the Blood Sun. Otherwise you'll lose all the trichomes.

amneziaHaze said:

kill it in the dark leave the room for 7 minutes soo last of her life goes out then you are safe to do it in the light XD

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No

The night before harvest, I will unplug my lights so they don't come on in the morning, then I start my harvest after my morning coffee.

Does this have any value? ....likely not, but no value to have the lights come on just a few hours before harvest

Seems to me a dark period before harvest just gives mold a head start.!

They get all the dark they need after the chop.

Screw the myth …. Just cut the fucking plants blindfolded.

FIFY

HydoDan said:

Seems to me a dark period before harvest just gives mold a head start.!

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with proper temperature humidity(usually a lot lower in flower) and ventilation i see no reason to get mold. but it can happen

amneziaHaze said:

with proper temperature humidity(usually a lot lower in flower) and ventilation i see no reason to get mold. but it can happen

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Mold spores are everywhere and not everyone has perfect conditions. It can and does happen.

HydoDan said:

Mold spores are everywhere and not everyone has perfect conditions. It can and does happen.

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yea but 12h of light doesnt do much. soo 24h of dark should not matter,unless our last 24h dark gets your humidity to 90%