does darkness before harvest ACTUALLY do anything??

fdd2blk

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I ripped this from another board..High Times and other mags say to harvest at the end of the dark period, right before your lights turn on, and that its best to not let the plants see light on harvest day unless its been cut from its roots. In the photosynthesis process, nutrients are moving during the day, and getting stored in the roots at night. By harvesting late in the dark period, you give your plants the chance to clear out all their nutriends from the buds. This method is still helpful even after flushing, as plants will always have some sort of nutrients in them. flamed for trying to help? My mum does work for special needs children so would probably love you fdd2blk

so now it's because of nutes? i thought we were talking about THC degrading.

keep grabbing, something will eventually hold. :wink:

high times sucks ass.
 

Anjinsan

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I ripped this from another board..High Times and other mags say to harvest at the end of the dark period, right before your lights turn on, and that its best to not let the plants see light on harvest day unless its been cut from its roots. In the photosynthesis process, nutrients are moving during the day, and getting stored in the roots at night. By harvesting late in the dark period, you give your plants the chance to clear out all their nutriends from the buds. This method is still helpful even after flushing, as plants will always have some sort of nutrients in them. flamed for trying to help? My mum does work for special needs children so would probably love you fdd2blk
I've seen pounds upon pounds upon pounds of FDD's harvest...show me what you got. I KNOW from this thing called my own personal experience...that weed cannot be made stronger or better or anything by harvesting at 8 am vs 8 pm or any darkness before harvest BS...seriously d00d you have 11 posts and I've read 2 of them that were filled with crap. I don't even particularly like FDD...but he knows his shit cold and has 45,000+ posts. Why are you arguing with him?
 

SaddamHussain

Active Member
I'm not arguing with some idiot who grows in his back garden with whispy buds full of insects.. the thread asks whether darkness does anything. The answer is yes. Resin production is greater in darkness and no matter what you say thc is degraded by sunlight/artificial light as with all organic matter. The benefits of nutrient diffusion are also good news. I suspect you've been in the sun too long.. get back under your bridge
 

fdd2blk

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I'm not arguing with some idiot who grows in his back garden with whispy buds full of insects.. the thread asks whether darkness does anything. The answer is yes. Resin production is greater in darkness and no matter what you say thc is degraded by sunlight/artificial light as with all organic matter. The benefits of nutrient diffusion are also good news. I suspect you've been in the sun too long.. get back under your bridge

you just embarrassed yourself. welcome to rollitup. :)

note the resin development at 6 weeks, 3:22 ... :cool:


[video=youtube;2QLiEgCN350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QLiEgCN350[/video]





it was out in the sun though, so all the THC degraded. :(
 

SaddamHussain

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did I ever say light degrades ALL the thc? Nope! I apologise for saying garden grow was shit. Theres no way you could do that here. UK Law, frosty mornings and no sunshine means we all got 2 use lights which most of us turn off for a time before chop. If you got that much weed why you such a miserable sod? peace
 

fdd2blk

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did I ever say light degrades ALL the thc? Nope! I apologise for saying garden grow was shit. Theres no way you could do that here. UK Law, frosty mornings and no sunshine means we all got 2 use lights which most of us turn off for a time before chop. If you got that much weed why you such a miserable sod? peace
i don't really know your mom. but if i did she would love me. :)


i think light degrades THC once the plant is dead. this is why it is best to store it in a dark place. but while it's still alive on the plant i don't think it hurts it.


thank you for being a good sport. i was just playing around. i apologize if i offended you in any way. i do welcome you to rollitup. bongsmilie

 

SaddamHussain

Active Member
Not offended easily.. my name attracts flamethrowers so no problem. Seriously though how do you protect a crop that big from insects and thieving? It's making me think about a heated poly tunnel.. but I know some nosey parker would smell or see it
 

fdd2blk

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Not offended easily.. my name attracts flamethrowers so no problem. Seriously though how do you protect a crop that big from insects and thieving? It's making me think about a heated poly tunnel.. but I know some nosey parker would smell or see it

the insects all kinda control each other. when things get out of hand the birds come in and eat them all.

did you notice the tent? i live in it for 3 months every year. :cool:
 

SaddamHussain

Active Member
Do you own a minigun or similar? lol, I still trying to get over the size of that shit! Combine harvester? I think
I need to relocate to a tolerant country. UK sucks in so many ways regarding mj
 

sixstring2112

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nice amp, i see you have no problems with the tiki torches ( interupting the dark period ). so do people have a special room for the stupid 1-1/2 - 2 day dark period or do you just screw all the plants up at once?
 

Prot3us1`

Active Member
roots dont store sugars OR nutrients at night. (well they dont take them from the rest of the plant anyway)
a dark period will actually increase sugar levels in all the plant material.

Perhaps the length of my previous posts or the punctuation scared people and they didnt read it. Ill try it this way now. ^^^
 

husalife

~ Out-Dawrz ~ Moderator ~
A combine harvests corn / silage. Just a huge tractor with blades that harvest the crop.
 

luckymeh

Active Member
I've read all 6 pages of this thread and am more confused than when I started. When our ladies are ready to harvest, 24hours of dark then chop or just do it straight after their final 12/12?!

+rep to fdd for that vid, very impressive.
 

Anjinsan

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If you guys can figure out how to turn off the sun for 24 hours...then this will be debatable. So anyone? Anyone know how to turn off the sun? No?

Furthermore your plant has been in flowering anywhere from 60 - 80 days. (1,440 hours to 1,920 hours) You have been on a 12/12 per day light schedule during this time. So an "EXTRA" 24 hours of dark before harvest is really only knocking out 12 hours of light. (please tell me that you are still following me)
So you couldn't build up a good plant in 1,500 hours...but it's going to be great by fucking with it in the last 12 hours? Does that make sense to you?
 
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