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BA. She was a nice one to look at by the end. She had some really heavy tops on her. It’s very gratifying to grow such great medicine. Thanks again to all our sponsors!I too have seen a bunch of folk employing this varying dark period just before harvest. It isn’t something I do.
As far as techniques go to increase resin production I believe there is a lot of merit in employing a pre-harvest drought. A period of 7-9 days of drought will produce a measurable increase in resin (up to 20%!) in some cases. Leaf wilt angle is your metric and when you see more than a 50 degree change you can apply a rescue drench or just harvest at that point. It’s not for the squeamish and it’s only for clones because it’s only clones that you know when 7-9 days before harvest will be.
I have used this method with some success sometimes, none at others. It’s hard to say.
Successes claimed anecdotally and attributed to this dark period practice are in the same category (for me) as flushing. People that swear by it are emotional about it, emphatic too even though results are hit and miss. This is just me, but what I think is that successes people find employing these methods may in fact be due to factors (ie. hydrostatic pressures, root ecology... etc.) related to drought stress.
