SickboyDilligaf
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So who has had success with a Dark period before Harvest ??? Is the Juice worth the squeeze????
Harvest or 72 hrs Darkness???
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You probably will not find a decent answer to your question. But i'll leave you with this. Flowering developement happens during the night cycle (during dormancy) with the help of photosynthesis energy stored during day time. So harvesting 72h can help deplete all energy stored remaining. Will it give you increase potency maybe not so much has people pretent (i thing it plays more on cbn and terpene then thc at this point) will it give you a bigger yield.. Probably since you are in complete flower production mode.. Will that yield be significant... Maybe not has much. I suggest if you were to do this in a dry area.. I usually harvest in darness with indirect lignt from another room far away and set in dark closet to hang and cure in darness for months.
xtsho
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You cure for months? Why? I use weed that is months old to make dry ice hash. I don't like smoking old stale weed.
Herb & Suds
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I had a friend (who has passed) kept a plant unfed and in the dark for months after it turned purple
So months later it was beautiful and tasted like your toes
Good luck
So months later it was beautiful and tasted like your toes
Good luck
Lucky Luke
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Bricktop posted a scientific study that concluded 72hrs was the magic dark period. if u search through his history you may find it. I normally just chop before first light, so 12 hrs of dark.
RangiSTaxi
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Dim your light, last 5 days before harvest , only if your have a very powerful light for your space.
Ive run a HLG 550 in a 3 x 3 space full blast, ill reduce light by 30% in the last 5 days before harvest, helps lower temps, increases humidity and increases Terpenes, and reduces break down of thc via intense light.
well that is what i tell myself anyway.
Ive run a HLG 550 in a 3 x 3 space full blast, ill reduce light by 30% in the last 5 days before harvest, helps lower temps, increases humidity and increases Terpenes, and reduces break down of thc via intense light.
well that is what i tell myself anyway.
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There is a diffrence between drying and curing. I'm not sure. If you fully understand the diffrents. Good cure remains fresh and never goes stale while in curing process if done right. Like i said i have over 20 years experience. Everyone knows patience is key. And long periods of curing has nothing to do with dried up buds. Drying should take between 3-10 days and curing atleast a month. Drying isent curing. Drying is simply drying. Everyone knows once a but has dried up curing proces no longer work.
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rob333
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cured weed always taste like crud or mold to me
Jypsy Dog
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Curing is all about the bacteria. 6 months is like a fine Cigar. 6 weeks is like a pack of Camels.
I like the taste and smell of that
SickboyDilligaf
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Mason jars with humidity packs will keep your stash fresh for a long time.
SickboyDilligaf
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Then your not drying and curing correctly
SickboyDilligaf
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I don’t like toes. I do like cheese hence me growing Sour OG cheese . Just joking. If I had a space With controlled environment that I can keep a plant in the dark for that long I would run that experiment one day I might try it thanks for the advice
xtsho
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I understand the difference. I have 40 years of experience. I like my weed slow dried, jarred, and smoked. I know all about the cure. I prefer my weed fresh. Which is good because I don't have time to be fiddling around with burping and humidity packs. I have plenty of patience which is why I never harvest my weed early and once dried it smells and tastes great and is ready to smoke. If you have 20 years experience then you should know that a slow dry takes longer than 3 - 10 days. If you're drying your weed in three days then you're drying it too fast. And yes I know the difference between drying and curing.
Anything else you think you should be teaching me? Maybe how flushing a bunch of water through the medium flushes the nutes out of the buds or how feeding sugar at the end sweetens the buds? Or maybe I should boil the roots after harvest to push all the resin into the buds.
SickboyDilligaf
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You don’t need to burp with humidity packs. Flushing makes buds suck up remaining available nutes or am I wrong about that ?? This thread is about 72 hrs darkness at the end. I am on my first grow and proud to say that I studied growing for five years before I even try to start a successful grow and I appreciate & respect everyone’s experience so please respect me and talk about the topic at hand. There has been a study separating plants from the same grow and harvesting six plants and letting six plants sit in darkness for 72 hours before harvest with up to 30% increase in THC throughout the six plants. That was done by a marijuana cultivation college I do believe . I’m just trying to get yall opinion. Ain’t no room for a pissing contest here
xtsho
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A marijuana cultivation college? I have about as much faith in most of those as I do the information some dude on youtube with crispy fried plants is giving out. Post a link to the study and I'll decide if I think it's valid. Just because someone does a study doesn't mean it's valid. Typically in normal education environments studies are subject to peer review. Was this study verified? And if you can't post a link then don't reference some study from some fly by night cannabis university. I'm calling bullshit to a 30% increase in THC from 72 hours of darkness.
You're on your first grow? Well good luck. Growing cannabis isn't hard. I have been gardening and growing plants of all kinds for almost 50 years. One thing I've found is that cannabis is just another plant. Keeping it healthy throughout its life cycle is how you get the best bud. Gimmicks like 72 hours darkness, snake oils in a bottle, are not how you get the best result.
SickboyDilligaf
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I have no room for Negativity or Just plain closed minded people. I guarantee you still have a landline telephone and a flip phone !!! 50 yrs ago did you have Feminized seeds or Autoflowers. 1st grow and it’s not hard. It’s time consuming. Your plants tell you what it needs or don’t Your allowed to have your own opinion bud. Opinions are like assholes everyone has one.
SickboyDilligaf
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The Stichting Institute of medical Marijuana (SIMM), the first company to sell marijuana through the pharmicies of Holland, has been investigating the medical possibilities of cannabis, together with TNO laboritories and the University of Leiden.
One of their discoveries has been that to keep the ripe plants in the dark before harvesting could increase their potency.
SIMM's growers seperated a crop of mature plants, harvested half of them and kept the other half in absolute darkness for 72 hours before cutting and drying.
Analysis of the resulting dried buds showed that some varieties had seen increases of THC of up to 30 %, while the CBD and CBN remained the same.
One of their discoveries has been that to keep the ripe plants in the dark before harvesting could increase their potency.
SIMM's growers seperated a crop of mature plants, harvested half of them and kept the other half in absolute darkness for 72 hours before cutting and drying.
Analysis of the resulting dried buds showed that some varieties had seen increases of THC of up to 30 %, while the CBD and CBN remained the same.