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    What does 3 days darkness before the chop do for the buds & how important is it?

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    It suppose to increase Trichome production, but I havn't proved it to myself yet.

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    • JDU
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      Ah. Ok thanks

    #3
    I've tried it . In my opinion it didn't do anything. Time better spent hanging and drying or bagging and drying.
    Focus and relativity.

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      #4
      I'm not going to do it when I harvest this next batch. I have done it since I started indoor and only 48hrs but really not seeing anything different JDU. I'm just gonna chop and trim and hang this round. I'll let it dry in the tent from their last flush pull them out cut do a trim and hang them. Saves me 2 days waiting. We need weed LOL
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        #5
        Yeah, I'm just gonna give em one more heavy molasses drink when they dry out from the flush- dry em again & chop.

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          #6
          3 days is excessive. I give 24 hours of darkness to use up any stored energy.
          4x4 600w HID empty for summer
          3x3 400w HID with Bruce Banner and Skywalker Kush
          2x2 65w Quantum Board LED with 4 mother strains
          running all simultaneously for a perpetual harvests.
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            • starramus
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              #13
              02-16-2020, 11:09 PM


              JohnEmad is correct. This might be one those traditionally held myths. I must confess I do it every time before harvest. Supposed to increase resin production, but wouldn't more light be better? How's about a super nova? DrPhoton would have a far better answer than mine. Paging DrPhoton Paging DrPhoton

              Last edited by starramus; 02-16-2020, 11:14 PM. Reason: i toopid


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                starramus commented
                02-17-2020, 12:28 AM


                DrPhoton has gone into the biochemistry of this question a few times. Unfortunately I don't believe he frequents this forum any longer. This appears on his profile page. "No activity results to display"
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                JohnEmad commented
                02-17-2020, 02:08 AM


                too bad! always great to have someone who has studied into things and has experience.
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                DrPhoton commented
                02-17-2020, 01:21 PM


                Peka boo!
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              #14
              02-17-2020, 01:20 PM


              Id love to give a fancy biological answer. But im lazy today. Put it simply. Cannabis has no long term photosynthate storage. Only transitory starch which is biologically clocked for just less than duration of the dark phase. In other words. No light, no cannabinoid biosynthesis.

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              That format don't look right?
              Smoke Ganja create Peace Respect Nature don't trash the Planet

              Soil grower with coco/perlite mixed in
              indoor/outdoor grower
              1 36"x36"x66" tent- Viparspectra P2500
              1 3x3x6 tent- used in late spring for seedlings both veggies & weed. I have 2 viparspectar 450r for that tent.
              I use a t-5 & 54watt CFL for seedlings
              Sometimes i use plastic sometimes i use fabric grow containers
              Currently using fish/guano during veg growth & FF Grow Big 6-4-4 teens to bloom. Once i see pre-flower i switch to
              Age Old Organics Bloom 5-10-5

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              • JDU
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                I know right? I was wondering if we got another update lol

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              From another thread with the very same query.

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              • JDU
                JDU commented
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                I remember that comment now. So common sense that they need all the light they can get (less the obvious 12hrs sleep of course) rings true if I understood. Now drying them out 2 or 3 days past time to water makes sense though.

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