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a cut and past from sensible seeds




suggested to flower (12 hour light) this marijuana variety for 8 weeks, but 10 weeks will really give you the crystals you are after. Try to turn the lights off altogether the final 2 weeks of the flowering cycle- or at least down to 8 hours. This keeps the flowers from re-growth and stresses the plant into giving up its last drop of goodness as crystal to protect the flower! The buds have so much THC on them that it is hard to see them at all.

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Pretty sure that two weeks of darkness is going to kill your plant... I sure would not try it.

Wow, I cant believe they really said that. It sounds like crap advice to me.

What stain are they refering to? White Widow? I think most seedbanks suggest a longer period of darkness with their white widows. Not sure if two weeks if excessive, but they certainly do get signifcant more dark time before harvesting than most other strains.

Thought I remebmered this. Its the Nirvana White Widow that the sensible seeds sells. Nirvans's white widonw has diferent gentics than the orginal from Greenhouse. Its taller and more slender and very delicate, from what I understand. If Nirvana suggest two weeks of dark or at least 30% reduction in light time, I'd take that as good advice. They developed the stain and grow them to breed seeds. Its their stuff, take their word for it.

Why do they suggest that? if they have serious scientific data to back up their claims i'd love to see it.....

sounds retarded, ive heard of the last day in darkness but never seen anything that really looked like it did anything and two weeks that cant be right doesn't sound healthy at all

im pretty sure ive heard of a day in darkness though and if the seed company says it.... well could be

The full day of darkness makes sense though, , 2 weeks doesnt. lol. Heres the basic principle, thc is broken down by light, so during the day its levels get broken down, during darkness none of the thc is broken down from light like during the day, giving them the extra darkness assures they will be at their max thc level that they can get. . Thats why dark it for like 2 weeks wont increase it, nor will a shorter light period everyday. It's kind of like muscles for us, what happens when you break down your muscles exercising? they get stronger when they recover. giving less light everday like that will only reduce how much its making.....

im sure its a misprint, supposed to say 2 days im sure.

yes it was a white widow strain i cut and pasted info from

not sure if it was a mistake or not

thanks guys for finally giveing me some input

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Hey, dwezel, like your avatar! Does that mean you are a GORILLA grower???

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I have done 72 hours of pre-harvest darkness with Jack the Ripper and Banana Kush (which i will never grow again) and had pretty good results. The JTR especially responded very well, the BK ripened some, but not like the JTR.

The extend dark period isnt about the degrading THC alone. What they are suggesting for this strain (and its only this strain that they suggest a two week dark period) is that you dont want the flowers growing, because you want the the plant to use its stored resources to focus on producing resin only. Plus, because the WW produces so much resin, the dark tricks the plant into making more to protect its buds from the seemingly cooler temps. WW isnt about yeild, but about how powerful the bud is per square inch. Its the principle of diminishing values: with most plants that dont carry the THC levels and resin production of the WW, a two week dark period would have diminishing values. You increase the potency a little but lose much yeild. It wouldnt be worth it. But with WW it is not a diminishing value. WW isn't a batch of beer, it finely tuned scotch. If you dont have an extended dark period, you will have wasted most of your time: you tried to make a scotch and ended up with a keg of beer.

absolute B.S, dont ever put your plants in 2 weeks of darkness.( if they survive your going to have a fun and long time of trying to revive them.

Haha, if you revieve them for what? So you can grow past the flower period? What period is that? Two weeks of dark then harvest. When you turn the lights off you expect them not to grow any further. That IS the point.

Crypnotic said:

Haha, if you revieve them for what? So you can grow past the flower period? What period is that? Two weeks of dark then harvest. When you turn the lights off you expect them not to grow any further. That IS the point.

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Thats dumb, you dont understand what he was saying apparently. If you want to screw your plants and harvest up go right ahead, doesnt hurt me any......