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VaSmile

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What do you think this will achieve? This is a practice my grow mentor taught me but have failed to find any scientific information that it achieves any benefit so I have abandoned it and seen harm in doing so
 
HydroKid239

HydroKid239

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If I do.. it’s out of complete laziness.
However… I do believe that stressing the plant out in the last couple weeks can boost terpines a little. No light, when the plants expect light.. can be a stressor. BUT… I can’t tell you I’ve ever noticed a difference between that, and just chopping in the middle of their light schedule.
 
Budzbuddha

Budzbuddha

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This is what I would do ( being serious ) …. Actually 2 things.

1. Wet trim them for harvest THEN park them in a dark tent ….. leave them there to “ dry in pot “ until you want to cut them and hang.
I have left plants in darkness for days … letting them just to dry out ( week or so ) then I pull them ( bone dry / already trimmed ) ready to
Clip off into jars or some final drying if needed.

2. ( This is my favorite ) …. I take those same plants in a dark tent and Run my UV light on them ( agromax pure UV ) only using a timer that blasts them for 30 minutes every 4 hours ( 12/12 ) - they get some frosty ass triches ( last Hail Mary on them ) for first 12 hours then dark 12 off.
I do it for a couple of days maybe ….just to squeeze out what I can from them . However heavy UV can damage them too , so it varies.

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ooof-da

ooof-da

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That doesn’t happen in nature (outside of extreme N/S poles maybe) so I say no. My feeling is there are too many people trying to be experts by coming up with weird ass shit to do to plants that have had millions of years to sort out their best environmental controls and it’s our job to mimic those not change them drastically. So for me when I read new “ideas” that is my lens…GL
 
secretmicrogrow420

secretmicrogrow420

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Offmymeds said:
Dr. Bugbee said no, it would have the opposite effect. Check out his bro science video.
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leaving your plants in darkness was bro science we used to believe that terpenes were replenished during the night so we used to leave our plants in darkness thinking they would produce more terpenes during lights off.

but dr.bruce bugbee said in a video that plants produce terpenes during the day not during the night and i believe this man because he is the owner of apogee.
 
sfw1960

sfw1960

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Doesn't do anything to add to the potency or yield.
I basically do it because I can't always chop up things for hours and hours at a time, so for me I might get a little incidental color change because the heat gets shut down too - but the main thing is I can take on the trimming fun over the course of a few days if needed; instead of a marathon match with scissors.
 
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Phytoplankton

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The only thing it does is increase the terpenes slightly, since terpenes volatilize in heat/light, it does nothing for THC. You can achieve the same thing by harvesting just before the lights come on.
 
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