Chopping Tomorrow??? 1st Grow 1st Harvest - 1 Last Looks Please

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LoIQ2

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Hi RIU -

So happy for this forum. 1st Grow. DWC. Day 68 from 12/12. I can see an amber trich here n there otherwise cloudy and clear. 2 beans. 1 MK and 1BBerry. I wanna 24hrs Dark at lights out and chop next day. Hoping for one last look and hopefully sign off from the more experienced gardeners.

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bmeat

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how wonderful..do you see clear trichs? if you do, they can go another couple days to a week. if its a indica, watch it close.

i think i see clear in your loupe, but its hard to see with bright light in the back
 
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LoIQ2

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Bakatare666 said:
You're gonna pull everything?
That last pic doesn't look ready.
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Its just the lights. Last pic is same as 2nd pic. Blackberry, she's all amber hairs. I saw what looked like 1 tiny banana coming from her and plucked it. No other signs of hermie. A few amber trichs but mostly cloudy and clear. Figured better not wait much longer. 1st Pic and 2nd to last is MasterKush. Both in 24 hours dark phase now, then chop unless concensus is to wait her out longer? I don't wanna blow my deal at the finish...

Thanks ALL for your input.
 
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bmeat

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MASTERKUSHH i should have known shes DAMN pretty! didnt have a sativa pheno like that though haha..we kept em small just to breed..low scale op.

just watch em over the couple days. i would crop out as soon as you start seeing ambers trichs..at least on on every bud..you know you want it to be just in the mid-start of over ripening..cause it will ripen while drying
 
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LoIQ2

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bmeat said:
how wonderful..do you see clear trichs? if you do, they can go another couple days to a week. if its a indica, watch it close.

i think i see clear in your loupe, but its hard to see with bright light in the back
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Yep! I see clear and cloudy and a few ambers here and there... All hairs red. 1 Blackberry, 1 MasterKush from fem beans on 9/30. MK I'm sure is ready. BB threatening to herm. Thinking the time is now....
 
Bakatare666

Bakatare666

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LoIQ2 said:
Its just the lights. Last pic is same as 2nd pic. Blackberry, she's all amber hairs. I saw what looked like 1 tiny banana coming from her and plucked it. No other signs of hermie. A few amber trichs but mostly cloudy and clear. Figured better not wait much longer. 1st Pic and 2nd to last is MasterKush. Both in 24 hours dark phase now, then chop unless concensus is to wait her out longer? I don't wanna blow my deal at the finish...

Thanks ALL for your input.
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OK, cool.
Great grow!
 
PeyoteReligion

PeyoteReligion

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I go three days in darkness, but I'm pretty patient.

"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."
 
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bmeat

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medical growers..increased potency of the other chemicals that thc converts too. i dont know about all that..this is just my opinion.

i do know that plants will have the most hormones flowing in the morning..so some people harvest in the morning hours after the dark cycle..

so who knows. maybe the dark increases thc, but medical growers/researches dont care about thc. if they wanted great crop..just let it over ripen to the mid-late stage.

regardless, a couple days of darkness or morning cycles isnt gonna have that big of an effect on chemicals..whats there is what the plant took 8 weeks to produce

btw, how long did your masterkush take from preflower?
 
themullisk

themullisk

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give the mk 4 more days 2 in the light and 2 in total darkness and chop it in the dark ive grown it a few times and that seems tohave the best results if u wanted to u could go 5 days 3 lights/2 dark just to make sure ur in the window of peakness edit: and make sure with mk u dry her right and jar curing it is a must to bring out that special funk mmmm I got another round starting I cant wait:-P
 
thatboyis1uvakind

thatboyis1uvakind

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PeyoteReligion said:
I go three days in darkness, but I'm pretty patient.

"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."
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Do u believe this to b true?....do u think bud left in dark proir to harvest is that much better?...I've researched it and contemplated doing it but I don't see how in an 8-10 week flowering cycle which is what it takes for most plants to mature and build up the necessary stuff to get u hi....I just don't see how 72 hours is gonna have that much effect....I haven't done it yet but I'm a very experienced smoker and I can't imagine any weed being 30% stronger than what my weed is now....ppl do it tho so must maybe something to it....idk
 
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bmeat

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if it makes you feel better, harvest after a dark cycle in the 'morning' the hormones are a little higher..but they probably just regulate and fall back to normal stable homeostasis while drying anyway..

our hormones do the same thing..in the morning they are slightly elevated

humans and plants share almost identical cell structure, besides the plant having a vacuole and cell membrane and chloroplast..cause it allows them to photosynthesize, which we dont have to do, cause we eat them to get energy. we both operate off of glucose. we both have mitochondria, ribsome, rough and smooth er, and golgi transpot.

we live off of the plants though..we get energy directly from plants, or animals that eat the animals that eat the plants.

humans and plants are scary similiar on the basic, generic non detailed level, before they evolved their seperate ways

the further back you go, the similar things are.
 
thatboyis1uvakind

thatboyis1uvakind

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bmeat said:
if it makes you feel better, harvest after a dark cycle in the 'morning' the hormones are a little higher..but they probably just regulate and fall back to normal stable homeostasis while drying anyway..

our hormones do the same thing..in the morning they are slightly elevated

humans and plants share almost identical cell structure, besides the plant having a vacuole and cell membrane and chloroplast..cause it allows them to photosynthesize, which we dont have to do, cause we eat them to get energy. we both operate off of glucose. we both have mitochondria, ribsome, rough and smooth er, and golgi transpot.

we live off of the plants though..we get energy directly from plants, even through things we ate, becuase it all goes back to the plant that the vegan animal ate to start the cycle..

humans and plants are scary similiar on the rough generic non detailed level
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Wow meat.....
 
themullisk

themullisk

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thatboyis1uvakind said:
Do u believe this to b true?....do u think bud left in dark proir to harvest is that much better?...I've researched it and contemplated doing it but I don't see how in an 8-10 week flowering cycle which is what it takes for most plants to mature and build up the necessary stuff to get u hi....I just don't see how 72 hours is gonna have that much effect....I haven't done it yet but I'm a very experienced smoker and I can't imagine any weed being 30% stronger than what my weed is now....ppl do it tho so must maybe something to it....idk
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the main reason for it is that the plant is storing carbs so the resin production is increased as well at the fullness of the resin glands, there for the percent of active chemicals are increased also it shortens ur drying time and curing time because the chlorophyll is not active thru out the cell walls as it is when its under light
 
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LoIQ2

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bmeat said:
medical growers..increased potency of the other chemicals that thc converts too. i dont know about all that..this is just my opinion.

i do know that plants will have the most hormones flowing in the morning..so some people harvest in the morning hours after the dark cycle..

so who knows. maybe the dark increases thc, but medical growers/researches dont care about thc. if they wanted great crop..just let it over ripen to the mid-late stage.

regardless, a couple days of darkness or morning cycles isnt gonna have that big of an effect on chemicals..whats there is what the plant took 8 weeks to produce

btw, how long did your masterkush take from preflower?
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5-7 days tops
 
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