Last watering before harvest.

[GreenIRL]

The dark period in my mind is an old wives tale ,it won't harm your plants if you choose to do so,but personally I'd rather give em the extra 2-3 days of 12/12

I read the dark period is supposed make the resin and terp profile more intense as light diminishes terps. Like your plants seem to smell the most just before lights on.

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[GreenIRL]

I think the darkness thing is to make use of the plant's biology where more of the water goes to the roots in the dark, so a prolonged period = more water is in the roots, so the buds are supposedly drier, and so time spent drying after chop is reduced.

Theoretically it makes sense, but can't say IRL either way if that had helped, or if it might be strain dependent.

Yeah the dark period before harvest is definitely beneficial in that sence of the plants biology but surely more has to be going on in the dark period apart from movement of nutrients to the root zone.

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[Valentina]

I read the dark period is supposed make the resin and terp profile more intense as light diminishes terps. Like your plants seem to smell the most just before lights on.

I thought that was to do with the progressive shortening of the light hours, so dropping the light hours by a few minutes every day then increasing the increments, not a protracted total darkness tho.

I read on a diary here that an old member here left a male canna plant in his tent, deballing that so there is no breeding, but the females "know" that he is there and will chuck out more trichomes as they want to breed with him.

That is something I am playing with now but sorry, totally unrelated to your light/dark question.

[Kurdt]

Regardless of a dark period or not, those trich's look cooked to perfection,nice job!

[GreenIRL]

I thought that was to do with the progressive shortening of the light hours, so dropping the light hours by a few minutes every day then increasing the increments, not a protracted total darkness tho.

I read on a diary here that an old member here left a male canna plant in his tent, deballing that so there is no breeding, but the females "know" that he is there and will chuck out more trichomes as they want to breed with him.

That is something I am playing with now but sorry, totally unrelated to your light/dark question.

Yeah I never really found anyh info on shortening of light hours but i do believe it's meant to crate a more uniform ripening of the flowers.

That's really interesting about that male plant left with the females and I well believe the theory behind it.

We all need to chip in on some lab equipment

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[GreenIRL]

Regardless of a dark period or not, those trich's look cooked to perfection,nice job!

Niceone Kurdt, absolutely caked aren't they. I'm hoping there 20% or more by the looks of it.

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