Results for dark period before harvest

Nutty sKunK

Nutty sKunK

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Wastei said:
Because I've tried said measurements like 15 years ago without any positive effects what so ever?

The plant doesn't die directly when you cut it from the stem. This is basic plant biology. It still has water, nutrients and carbohydrates in the leaves and tissues.

I'm old enough to actually have tried most of the bro science out there. Good luck in your endeavors! Cheers!
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Yeah I doubt you’d even noticed at all between darkness or no darkness.

Yeah the plant is alive but without it’s roots is what I was getting at.

It’s just a habit ive gotten and was curious to others experiences.
 
Wastei

Wastei

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Nutty sKunK said:
Yeah I doubt you’d even noticed at all between darkness or no darkness.

Yeah the plant is alive but without it’s roots is what I was getting at.

It’s just a habit ive gotten and was curious to others experiences.
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Nothing because it's practically the same thing. That's why people also bash flushing and every single new study show it doesn't work the way people were led to believe.

Plants need the water, nutrients and carbohydrates still in the plant tissue to dry and cure properly IMO.
 
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12731273a

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turn the lights off leave the plants in the pot it was growing in in the dark until it is dryed and cured on the vine then go strait to the jars without touching the buds to much [[[[[ and dont trim to much well just becarefull
 
Richard Drysift

Richard Drysift

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Rurumo said:
Just cut the entire plant at the base and dry the entire thing, leaves and all, in the dark. You can even leave the roots on if you want, but it's not necessary. The plant stays alive for days as it dries out-now, I have no idea if this darkness idea does anything, but I do like the way the bud turns out when I slow dry the entire plant then dry trim. I think it has more to do with slow drying than the darkness aspect, but I think it also has to do with not wet trimming. Wet trimming vastly speeds up the drying process by exposing all those thousands of cuts to the air. I might even try drying one of my plants in place this time-just stop watering, turn off the lights, and maintain a proper humidity in the tent through ventilation, until the outsides are crispy, then cure per usual. I'm just wondering if that will slow down the dry a little more.
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Yes I think you are on to something here. It’s not just the darkness itself it is the combination of dark, the maturation of the trichomes, and the slow cure/dry process that makes “better” bud. It’s a chemical process that happens very slowly. That’s why the 72 hrs of darkness myth prevails; it’s not really a myth nor is it really true.
It’s mostly the amount of time involved that makes it “work.” The darkness only prevents the resins from degrading while a very slow reduction of moisture leaves behind their essence. Increase of terpenes and more potent resins are the result. It doesn’t matter much whether you chop during light or dark cycle or if you leave plants in the dark before chop or not but your own level of patience when deciding when to chop and your drying and trimming methods have a huge affect on the end product.
 
Severed Tongue

Severed Tongue

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Kind of funny actually... if you follow the internet, people these days want to first push the plant to limits with expensive nutrients and rediculously controlled environments to make it grow as big and fat as possible, then..... starve it, drown it, and torture it just before they kill it.

I don't have patience to add 3 more days to my grow and just my opinion, but I don't believe this would actually increase any potency or the like.
 
bernie344

bernie344

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Millo said:
Many people here state the same. Strong placebo effect? Could be. But there could also be some truth. The problem is that this idea is so scarse among growers that is not yet a relevant public opinion. See flushing for example. It is so wide spread that there have indeed been made scientific studies on the matter. Not so much interest is found concerning the dark period before harvest. Maybe the difference is so small that no one ( with a lab ) cares to even try to study this theory.
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Maybe, maybe and maybe again.
Talking for nothing.
 
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