a friend and I were talking about supercropping today when he said that a veteran hippy grower he knows would supercrop a week before harvest with the idea that the plant stresses and swells the bud and even increase trichomes as it trys to reheal. I know this is just hear-say but I wonder if there's any truth behind it
Hey man sorry i kinda missed this...
So anytime that someone tells me that it pushes thc out ... by hanging.. stressing blah blah... pushing thc out?.... lol... Clearly people that tell you about these things can be discarded as wives-tale growing vs science growing.
What they need to do is read. And maybe get a loupe and grow a bud once. lol... once you see that everything is in the trichome heads then youll start understanding this entire thing.
LIke i said bro. Read the FAQ's.. read some threads... search for trichomes... youll see some nice research.
As far as why i choose 1 or 2 weeks before flowering is for 2 reosons.
1. Allows plant to go into flowering period unstressed and recovered.
2. Allows the bud sites to adapt and grow "UP" towards the light.
The trick is to not allow them to go too tall by flowering too late after supercroping. You flower too soon and you end up with medium buds growing down this sideways branchs. So 1 week to 2 weeks is what i recommend.
IF you see in my experiment in this thread its all about the timing.
But i assure you it has nothing to do with the plant loving stress... it just happens to be a plant that adapts very well to it. Youll see where the bends and pinches are done that the plant will recover and make larger walls. Thus (theory here) allowes better nutrient flow to the above bud sites.