Indoor do u leave plant in dark before chop?

[fweedom]

Well title says it all.. usually i just take them out the tent during lights on and start trimming..but i read sumthin bout leaving it in darkness for a day or 2 may give it more trichs or sumthin anybody done both ways and seen a difference? What do yall fellow growers do? just wanna do whats best but if theres do difference it will just save me a day or two lol

 

[The Dude]

Hey brother.I have read a few different ways to do it.anythng from 24 hours to 5 days.And Im sure your aware that what it does as it lets the THC build.I personally left my Blueberry headband in the dark for a touch over 36 hours cause I was an uber newbie and didnt wanna the world to implode.LOL!BUT, I left my second and first Auto and another Photo in the dark for three days and I truly found there was a diff. to me.It was truly glossy.Youll see the diff. but Im faaar from a pro and have only done it twice.But I can tell you that in my humble opinion brother,Id leave it in the dark for three days and have the soil only slightly damp.Thats what Ive read and have tried.It gains tons of energy and potency.Happy harvest brother.!Be well!!


I forgot to mention that youll be able to see a bit (A lot in my case) of a diff. since the buds and all the trics are just truly wet looking.So in just a visual aspect they look sweeter,sexier and just more luscious.But Jorge Cervantes says it can make a diff. with even 24 hours since all bio organisims(I kno I cant spell LOL) gain energy and strength when sleeping.I do it,you prolly feel better after a goodnight sleep too.Jorge and I can very well be wrong. maybe it is a myth.I wonder where one would go to find more of an intricate understanding of that question.hmmmmmm.......Pondering the ways of the world.well if I am indeed wrong,I hope Im not giving you terrible or even bad information.Ill have to read up on that a bit more.I'll try to get back to you on that brother.sorry if its bad intel.Be well my friend.

 

[autogrower#1]

try to do 24 hours, after flushing

 

[thud]

Nope, I regard it as another myth.

I reckon it's origin is the observation that light degrades THC. We are left with THC because the plant produces it faster than it is degraded. Therefore having a couple of days in the dark will give THC production without degradation. Yet as far as I know plants don't do much of anything in the dark. Certainly they cannot produce sugars and if the metabolism stops, so must THC production.

There is an easy way to test this. Grow your autos with photos giving you 12 hours of darkness a day. If the theory was correct, those plants should be more potent than plants grown under a 24 hour light. There must be people on the board that have done that.

 

[briman]

Im with Thud on this!! 1st....nowhere in nature is there lights out for 1-5 days. 2nd....i feel the plant has its "down time" with lights off, and nothing happensbut the plant chilaxin and asperating. 3rd.....I have personally been too high to give a crap about anything at times( except for lockin my ass on the couch!!)...let alone chop and trim if I dont have to, at that perticular moment. I feel there is NO SCIENTIFIC DATA to back this up!!! Just my opinion.

 

[autogrower#1]

but lets face it, what part of the growing indoors is actually natural, chemicals, false lights etc ....

 

[fweedom]

Hey brother.I have read a few different ways to do it.anythng from 24 hours to 5 days.And Im sure your aware that what it does as it lets the THC build.I personally left my Blueberry headband in the dark for a touch over 36 hours cause I was an uber newbie and didnt wanna the world to implode.LOL!BUT, I left my second and first Auto and another Photo in the dark for three days and I truly found there was a diff. to me.It was truly glossy.Youll see the diff. but Im faaar from a pro and have only done it twice.But I can tell you that in my humble opinion brother,Id leave it in the dark for three days and have the soil only slightly damp.Thats what Ive read and have tried.It gains tons of energy and potency.Happy harvest brother.!Be well!!


I forgot to mention that youll be able to see a bit (A lot in my case) of a diff. since the buds and all the trics are just truly wet looking.So in just a visual aspect they look sweeter,sexier and just more luscious.But Jorge Cervantes says it can make a diff. with even 24 hours since all bio organisims(I kno I cant spell LOL) gain energy and strength when sleeping.I do it,you prolly feel better after a goodnight sleep too.Jorge and I can very well be wrong. maybe it is a myth.I wonder where one would go to find more of an intricate understanding of that question.hmmmmmm.......Pondering the ways of the world.well if I am indeed wrong,I hope Im not giving you terrible or even bad information.Ill have to read up on that a bit more.I'll try to get back to you on that brother.sorry if its bad intel.Be well my friend.

so if i left it in the dark for 3 days before the chop, your saying the bud will be more potent, then if i jus took it out the tent right now and started chopping? :smokebuds:

 

[bonghead]

hey guys i have a friend that always puts his girls into dark for 3 days before harvest,
and he explained to me that its not for potency its to make the plant finish up its cycle better/faster,
it makes the plant use every last bit of goodness out of the leaves roots etc....
it increases the fade of the leaves and sends all that goodness to the buds.
just my two pence.
bonghead

 

[happily]

I'm doing it. Plants store energy with lights on and use that energy to build in the dark. They do a lot, lot, lot in the dark. I'll leave it at that

 

[rdeaton]

Nothing natural about a twenty hour light cycle. With my photos I noticed a nice difference using 48hr dark period. Maybe a little better with autos but that late in budding most plants will look better in 3 days lights off or not. I think it just makes them give a final push because they think there dying