Harvest or 72 hrs Darkness???

xtsho

xtsho

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SickboyDilligaf said:
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. View attachment 4406427View attachment 4406428View attachment 4406429View attachment 4406430
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Typical. I've met your type. You have no room for negativity but then you make personal attacks on me with your lame comment about landlines and flip phones. Kiss my ass. I could care less what you studied for five years before your first grow. Opinions are like assholes. Now look in the mirror to see yours.
 
xtsho

xtsho

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SickboyDilligaf said:
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.
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SIMM (Stichting Institute Medical Marijuana), a company started by James Burton and Bedrocan

Mr. Burton's life story may be unusual, but he himself doesn't always have a clear recollection of it. He seems at times scattered and frazzled, mixing up words, phrases and even facts, including those about his medical history.

They often call him Dr. Burton, even though he has little more than a high-school education. He is less revered by Dutch officials, who recently announced that they would not renew his contract beyond next year.

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A Marijuana Salesman Seems to Lose Another Round (Published 2004)

Profile of James R Burton, who has contract from Dutch government to grow marijuana to supply medical cannabis program; Burton went to jail for a year in United States in 1988 and lost family farm after being caught with $112,000 worth of marijuana he said he needed to stave off glaucoma; is one...
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Skuxx

Skuxx

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SickboyDilligaf said:
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.[/U]
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By leaving in the dark for 72 hours they got an increase of up to 30% THC? Does that not smell like bullshit? As for any positive results, I can't say one way or another, just that a 30% increase seems like bs otherwise everybody would be doing this no questions asked. Maybe I misunderstood.
 
xtsho

xtsho

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Skuxx said:
By leaving in the dark for 72 hours they got an increase of up to 30% THC? Does that not smell like bullshit? As for any positive results, I can't say one way or another, just that a 30% increase seems like bs otherwise everybody would be doing this no questions asked. Maybe I misunderstood.
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This topic has been kicked around for over a decade. It always ends in a pissing match with someone always referring to some study done by SIMM but never any link to the study or the methodology used to conduct that study. All that exists is some claim from a guy that grows weed. The guy has no formal education and SIMM doesn't even have a website. All that's out there is a blank facebook page.

There is absolutely no scientific proof to back up the claim of a 30% increase in THC.

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Frigault

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xtsho said:
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.
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https://www.growweedeasy.com/drying-curing. I'm done about unrelated topics. 72h darkness is good for nut depletion and energy stored to also be depleted. Nothing wrong with this technic.. Just no crazy yield boost or thc boost has many claims in my own experience.
 
Hank Mardukas

Hank Mardukas

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Frigault said:
https://www.growweedeasy.com/drying-curing. I'm done about unrelated topics. 72h darkness is good for nut depletion and energy stored to also be depleted. Nothing wrong with this technic.. Just no crazy yield boost or thc boost has many claims in my own experience.
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And I will always look at it as broscience hahaha if you feed your plants correctly there shouldn't be any need for "nutes depletion" and if you're harvesting when they should be harvested there isn't a whole lot of "stored energy" left.
 
Merlin1147

Merlin1147

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The only advantage i can see to 72 hours of dark is that it would force the plant to use up all of its starch reserves and sugars before cutting. But since most of those are stored in the roots, you can probably achieve the same results by simply cutting when they’re ready and a proper slow dry and cure.
Maybe for guys that harvest too early and dry too fast, the 72 hours might make the smoke smoother, maybe.
 
CanadianJim

CanadianJim

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I don't buy a 30% increase in THC, but looking at the wording it indicates that the plants that were given the dark period were put into the dark at the same time the non-dark period plants were harvested. That means the dark period plants were given 3 extra days of ripening trichomes compared to the non-dark period plants. That alone means its results are questionable.
 
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