As the title says. What is the point?
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Harvest & Curing Point with keeping dark before harvest?
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'smax
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It give's the plant a final push (I assume because It thinks it's dying) and spit's out more trichromes. Also It supposedly lowers the amount of nutes left in the final harvested plant material (at least this is what I've heard). Don't really have the space to dark out my plants at the moment.
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surffreak23
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Here is a thread with a lot of info on this practice, sometimes your answer is just a search away on the forum... :thumbs: Click rthe link below and check it out!
https://www.autoflower.org/f23/dark-period-4581.html
https://www.autoflower.org/f23/dark-period-4581.html
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mattinuk3
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So what, even if it spits out new trichomes, they would be clear and non-psychoactive. I think that the people that put them in the dark do it to ripen those that are already there.
I think it's just a whole bunch of voodoo - if you put a plant in the dark for 3 -5 days the trichomes will continue to oxidize to translucent or amber - even the stalks of the trichomes will turn from clear to white in those last few days.
So the result is that when they finally see the plant after a few days, the heads have done their last bit of maturing, and the stalks have turned translucent, making the plant look more white/frosty than it did 5 days ago. Now imagine what that plant would done those 5 days if its trichomes continued to oxidize BUT it had light and therefore could photosynthesize to swell its calyxes a little bit more, and suck the last bit of nitrogen out of the fan leaves.
My personal method is to give a good flush 10 days to 2 weeks out, then they get nothing but water. I let them get light all the way up until I snip them. I also like to cut during day period because, in my experience, the fan leaf stems are stiffer and easier to snip at the base of the stem.
I have also heard of guys going in after 5 days to find their nugs coned over with spider mite webbing.
I think it's just a whole bunch of voodoo - if you put a plant in the dark for 3 -5 days the trichomes will continue to oxidize to translucent or amber - even the stalks of the trichomes will turn from clear to white in those last few days.
So the result is that when they finally see the plant after a few days, the heads have done their last bit of maturing, and the stalks have turned translucent, making the plant look more white/frosty than it did 5 days ago. Now imagine what that plant would done those 5 days if its trichomes continued to oxidize BUT it had light and therefore could photosynthesize to swell its calyxes a little bit more, and suck the last bit of nitrogen out of the fan leaves.
My personal method is to give a good flush 10 days to 2 weeks out, then they get nothing but water. I let them get light all the way up until I snip them. I also like to cut during day period because, in my experience, the fan leaf stems are stiffer and easier to snip at the base of the stem.
I have also heard of guys going in after 5 days to find their nugs coned over with spider mite webbing.
Can i keep them in thedark for 48 hours? I will have to go away for that period of time. /H.
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