light and heat degrade THC after the plant is dead, not while it's still alive. otherwise we'd all grow in the dark.
EXACTLY lol...deny your plant heat and light and it wont grow...unless you are harry potter or some shit. Be smart and dont post a fact unless you know its a fact...otherwise we will LITERALLY end up like idiocracy... People talking shit about what they dont know is probably how the worlds irrigation systems got to using gatorade instead of water! They even go as far as to say that the REASON they do it is because "it has everything you need". They no longer think about whats in it, and why they drink it..they have been told it has everything you need, why doubt it...they even go as far as to laugh at the guy for saying they need to water their plants with water not gatorade (salts building up in the soil from electrolytes lol)...they laugh at him and say "water, like from the toilet?" lol.
Well you have now been told that plants take the sugars and store them in the roots...if the roots arent hollow tubes (and they arent) where are these sugars stored? like..subspace or some shit. For this reason you have been told to leave your plants in the dark for 3 days.
You have also been told and shown that during the dark period the plant creates sugars, and during the day uses them...I provided links to info you should be able to understand, and the bottom of the wiki page has even more links and info.
If you are embarrassed i just proved you wrong dont get mad and flame me...in the future be worried i will come along and say you are bullshitting, do some research...If your answer doesnt sound right i will spend all night learning if i have to to get the RIGHT info out there.
Also, for interest...adding OXYGEN during lights on will burn sugars even faster. (thats why we need fresh air..or the plant stops growing!) - but if you start burning all your plants sugars things are going to go downhill...if you dry and cure properly the sugars should be long ago "consumed" by the process of curing. (If sugars even make a difference to final taste...)
Cut your plants the day they are ready...my advice would be to do as FDD does...cut branches in manageable sizes, and go trim...FDD has a lot of bud to trim so he cant really be as vigilant as some of us, but handle the bud as little as possible...you dont want all the trichs off the top of the plant wiped all over your hands and carpet and kitchen table lol..you want them on the plant matter.
FDD, my fiancee and i watched your youtube vid of the outdoor grow...she said to me:
"Look! the chairs!! they are always facing the "tree", If i had a plant that big i would watch it too lol."
She also asked why mine were so small >.< I said cuz i cant fit a 7 foot high, 10 foot wide plant in a friggen 4 foot high growbox LOL. <official tree envy>
Also laughed when you were commando style under the canopy...watering or trimming lower growth i assume lol. you were gone in there! TREE HOUSE lol...
We also sometimes drop in to your glass blowing show, just to see what you are working on...I badly want to get into it later on too!
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