The Dark Side

Serpent

Serpent

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Well its harvest time Saturday thinking of doing the three day in the dark trick what do you 420 people think dark or light. I flush them all two weeks ago there two purple urkel,one super lemon haze, two bubblelisch I'm hoping the three day dark stress the ladies to pop some come THC

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dont go complete dark but drop the little a couple hours per day for 3 - 5 days it ripens buds up for def. leaving them in complete dark can actually encourage bud rot.
 
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So the facts simple. Light degrades THC and heat degrades THC (that is just science). So it is best to harvest right after a sleep. It is best to not turn on the big grow light. Just have normal low intensity light during the harvest process. I am a firm believer in washing the buds. If you don't know about it there is a great thread on this in the harvesting forum area on here. It is like 45 pages long but you just need to read the first page until you get through the post by the guy who started this.

So I will have normal low light from outside the tent and get my wash buckets set and start cutting of branches and cleaning and wash about 2-3 branches at a time per hand and hang them to dry on the SCROG they came off. Then I will use towels and other methods to keep the tent at the right humidity for the slow dry but keep the fan highish to prevent mold and get good airflow.

Then you cure.

Sometimes I am drying and growing at the same time so I will put a dry box by the inlet vent to the tent so the smells get drawn into the tent.


The question you are asking about really is the dark period and I think there is something to that as long as the plant is properly set up to continue building resin. Like anything you can screw it up and think it doesn't work. Some people have flushed so much the plant is near dead already so it may not work as well but you should deferentially harvest at the end of some night period because of the very first thing I noted. Harvesting after the lights have been on a few hours is just shooting yourself in the foot. Obviously there is some upper limit to how long to go and I don't think I have read about anyone testing that in a scientific way. Many people claim 36 hours or 48 hours. I would be interested and maybe I will do that my next clone grow, Pull one at 12, one at 24, one at 36 and one at 48 and see if there is much difference. But right now I have not done any study on this. I just know you want to harvest before light hits it. I have even had Friends who harvest in the dark with a headband green light.

You want to dry in a cool dark place with good airflow, you want to cure in a cool dark place (some say the fridge or even the freezer is best).

That's about what I know. (Actually there are a few more things like adding flavors but not important..you can read about that in the curing areas. They have some decent threads on it. I don't do it and don't recommend it but many people love it. I don't sell my stuff so I don't care to make it designer. I don't even "properly" trim because you get rid of some of the best parts to make it look good and I like the best stuff and don't care what it looks like. Especially the stuff I concentrate.)

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Don't listen to that idiot. Emy is always right.


And that comment was really after I was explaining that some people like to dry out the soil the last week before going into the dark period for more resin. I tend to like water to be in there so the plant starts the dry and cure wet so as to give it a good chance to burn down that chlorophyll and it may continue to work for a while. A proper wash can help that too but of course you must have good airflow and shake them good and dry them properly.

Anyway I personally have not found a good study and have not looked at Emy's work on the issue so I have no real opinion. I do read a lot of people who swear by it. So until I have a reason explained to me not to do it I will give it a shot. The next time I have the ability to do a real experiment (like having clones running together) I will do it a few different ways and various timings and see if I can see a difference.

I would be interested if this idea of drying out the soil first really helps. I have always wanted to start the drying process and full of water as possible. And it is hard to do in DWC ;)
 
The week before harvest I'll dry out the soil only to help speed up the drying time but after so many years of growing I'm more looking for the medical cannabis smoke the long cure the amazing Turpines I'm not after the cash so anything to help but ya all was wonder if keeping water in the soil to help the cure in the long run
 
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