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Length of Dark Time before harvest

I do believe there are certain circumstances that calls for flushing and me personally do transplant all of my strains successfully. Not bragging just that i've never lost a plant to transplanting. I don't think that leaving a living plant in the dark for 3 days in the pot is bad. Too each their own.
 
Theres never any reason to flush, anything can be fixed with time. Especially using liquid nutrients giving a 20% runoff. That's a mini flush every watering/feed.

I agree it's not bad, also not necessary. My first 4 or 5 grows I did that 48hr darkness bs didn't see, taste, or feel a difference in finished bud
 
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I should have scoped my buds after the three nights of dakness. Trimmed and hanging right now. Super sticky. Showing 59% on a sensor hidden in the stalks. Need to move it to a more humid room for a couple days more. Getting too dry in the dry room.
 
BU2B , thanks for the interesting reply. Good info as always. Also your PPP method is very interesting. Great work, thanks. I’ll try it next grow. Just to report, I did put my NLights auto in 3 days darkness and ice flush, after which! I had maybe 5% amber but still some clear and headless trichs. It’s chopped, bud washed and hanging in 55-61% RH and 75-80’F.
 
RetiredGuy said:
I am going to be pulling three of my plants from my grow closet later today and will put them in a dark space until I harvest.

How much dark time do you feel is optimum before chopping or do you think it matters? I have read elsewhere that up to 72 hrs can improve the amount of resin and would like to hear your opinions. Thanks in advance!
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Each strain reacts differently. A few grows ago I had Strawberry Cough x Cotton Candy Kush it produced a lot of frosting, but not so much with the Thai x CCK. I.M.O mileage varies with respect to the strains but hey it does not cost any extra time or $...win win
 
I stripped the carcass of the plant I let sit in the dark today. Left the cut up stems in the garbage. And it's stinking up the whole house.
 
I like cotton candy kush. I had a good producing autoflower that I made hermie for seeds. Eventually going to cross that with a nana glue photoperiod. Or vise versa rather. Gonna take a photoperiod pollen for the kush. Then probably reverse it to bring plant size back down.
 
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I was able to just shut the lights off in the tent for a few days before I pulled or cut anything... Sometimes this approach is not going to work if all the plants are at different flowering stages.
 
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