ive heard - no science just experience of a friend - that the cure is quicker if you cut the base before you crank up your lights - something about the sugars and where they are vs light/darkone thing is for certain it makes sense not to cut them down right after their light cycle ends. sense of smell is subjective but it seems like the plant is danker just before the lights come on than it is at the end of its day.
sounds like the same thing he was saying - something like the sugars are lower in the stalk and roots at night and drive through the plant in day...the sence behind the dark period would be to stop chlorophyll production as the chloroplasts convert light into the green color of the leaf.
nearing the end of harvest ppl tend to want to have a cleaner smoke and therefore flush plants to get rid of as much chlorophyll as they can and bring out a better smoke.
the answer is in the taste of the bud.
and i would assume that the increased venting to keep the heat down in the day time would make it smell less dank, and also the decrease in relative humidy as things heat up.
the smell is carried more so in a humid enviroment.
seeds take time to develop. catching pollen right before it dies isn't really going to accomplish anything.. And isn't it pistils that catch pollen?putting a plant into darkness for two or three days stresses it out, the plant thinks she is going to die and makes more resin to catch any pollen she can before she dies... It works... i use a 48h dark period. the greasy feeling is the natural oils that build up on the plant... thats it really
RESIN IS NOT FOR COLLECTING POLLEN, IT IS THE PLANTS SUNSCREEN. Thank you. Yes much misinformation.seeds take time to develop. catching pollen right before it does doesnt really do anything..
And isn't it pistils that catch pollen?
theres a lot of misinformation on this thread..
The problem with that test is they gave half the plants 3 more days of life. They should have cut them at the same time to see what 3 days of additional "sun" would have done in comparison."The Stichting Institute of Medical marijuana (SIMM), the first company to sell marijuana through the pharmacies of Holland, has been investigating the medical possibilities of cannabis, together with TNO laboratories and the University of Leiden.
One of their discoveries has been that to keep the ripe plants in the dark before harvesting could increase their potency.SIMM’s growers separated a crop of mature plants, harvested half of them and kept the other half in absolute darkness for 72 hours before cutting and drying. Analysis of the resulting dried buds showed that some varieties had seen an increase of THC of up to 30%, while CBD and CBN remained the same."
Its strain dependent. Even if you don't want to beleive, it's good to let the plant in darkness for about an hour to let the starches drop, as they are mobile.
Your pics are typical of most of the buds I produce, more trichrome development underneath the buds than on the tops.from what i was told and NO it wasn't a biologist, but the closet person to being one that i know.. basically the plant tripps out for whatever reason and thats its only defense is its shield of trichrome's which builds up as needed... 72 hours of darkness at the end tripps it out harder than anything else in the good way "supposedly" and the colder the better too.. i tested it on my first grow and have been doing it ever since. when i harvested my grow i left one in the tent for three days of darkness and temps were around mid to high 60's... when i took her out there was really no difference at all. it wasnt till a month or two later that i busted that jar out and was smoking on it when i noticed a difference .. these are the only two shitty cell phone pics i have of it....made a difference on bag appeal
the piece on the right got the darkness same plant same everything just three days of darkness.. this has done more for me then any nute claiming to increase trich production..
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