I Have started bringing my girl inside at like 7 pm now in a completely dark room, it doesnt really get pitch dark till late right now (Still......but its starting earlier) and IM thinking this is going to help the flowering process.......anyone?????
I don't have the link, its hard to find but I've seen a few of the major posters cite it. If one of them sees this, they may be able to provide it for you. I found it while googling stuff. You could too probably. I do not recall which strains, if any, were specified.
a while back i made the mistake of planting a straight up sativa in with my indicas, and because i was using floro i got extremely discouraged around week 14 of flower. the buds were tiny, airy and weeks from finishing. i said fuck it, turned off the light and left the plant there for 2 months and basically forgot about it. when i got around to my next grow i took out the plant. it sure was dead, but still looked greenish. it was totally dry and ready to smoke, so i took these immature buds that i could see through and smoked them and low and behold i got wrecked. the sample i took before giving up was gross and i didn't get high, but 2 months later the same plant fucked me up. i'm not suggesting that this automatically proves the op's theory, but something happened to that plant after i abandoned it that improved the smoke.
That was a very good read DD. I have bookmarked this thread, and i support it's candidacy for a sticky!
Good info guys
"Also, since it was a sativa, they benefit the most from long dark periods."
i was about to oder some dutch passion whte widow. its a 60 indica/40 sativa. WW is the exception your saying to that? since the WW they have is indica dominant. or should find a sativa dominant WW?
and what are the signs the plant has stopped 'breathing'? if wilting and dying of leaves isnt the sign...
none of it. only thing that dark at the end does is signal end of season and natural responce is to reproduce, so it tries to hermie and self pollenate.
light = growth for processing. dark time runs on stored energy. so the longer or more dark the less enegery to make potency or anything else and the longer it sits in dark attached to the roots the more the potency degrades. she still looks for food, so no food, it starves itself.
because the roots want to feed the plant. with no food it takes away thew stored energy. when we start to water we loose about 5% thc and thats each time we water between foods so if no food there will be more loss. and in dark they live on this stored energy so nothing supplying the energy anymore degrades it.
i used to believe the (simms institute i believe it was) test they did way back in the 50`s of this makin claims of up to 30% increase in THC or potency but since ive had axcess to test this myself with the correct machines its false.
well tests have proven id dont work...we went up to 10 day in dark and multi strains and about every angle we could think off for it. all was weeker, some molded or went to rot.
no more light, no more photosynthesis, no more sugar processing, no more potency = weeker bud...............think other way...add light at end.................