Will trichomes turn amber during 72 hours dark period?

Hello there!

My question is in the subject: will milky trichomes turn amber, and clear trichomes become milky, during the 72 hours of dark before harvesting?

Or the color change happens with lights on?

I want to know because of harvest planning, I don't want to end up after 72 hours of dark with too many amber trichs.

Anyone knows? Thank you

Good question.....

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No one knows?

growerboy said:

No one knows?

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You could test it out and post results.

peu4000 said:

You could test it out and post results.

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I will, but I was thinking that in a forum populated by experts, botanists and experienced marijuana growers, someone knew whether trichomes mature in light, in dark or both (simply by time).

Maybe they know but hadn't the occasion to read this thread (that is why i'm bumping daily), or simply they don't want to answer again to maybe a question asked 100s of times. Indeed I searched but came up with nothing useful.

I'm going to do 48-72 hrs dark too.
I want to know the answer in hopes they do turn amber during that dark period.
I've always harvested right before lights on, never more than the 12 hrs dark though.
I've been told light degrades trichomes
relative to the dark period, so i'd think
they would repair/mature during dark.

Okay so far, in my plant and in the actual setup, I observed the following:

there HAS been some trich development, in term of existent trich maturation and a few new trichs developed.

Indeed the process isn't that fast; I observed a faster maturation in the previous 72 hours with the usual photoperiod.
Light starvation seemed to slow down trich production/development, but not stopped it.

I would say dark period isn't something that can really damage plants or that will make you miss the prime time harvest window, so why not try?

I can't answer your question regarding maturity. At the 72 hour mark i start chopping and it never occurred to me to take a peak I've learned to put her in the dark when she's just barely at the point that I want to harvest her. You don't want to worry about going over your harvest window so much as going under it.

growerboy said:

Hello there!

My question is in the subject: will milky trichomes turn amber, and clear trichomes become milky, during the 72 hours of dark before harvesting?

Or the color change happens with lights on?

I want to know because of harvest planning, I don't want to end up after 72 hours of dark with too many amber trichs.

Anyone knows? Thank you

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From what i know as a noob the 72hrs of drakness just removes more cylbole or how ever you spell it, this helps out by saving time with the curing process. The tri's will keep going at a normal rate probably slower i guess. Mine seems to have gone more amber after 3 weeks of curing from the looks.

Why don't any of the experts have a take on this...

you def dont want to harvest early,i seem to get more tric activity when lights out and cools off 5 degrees or so . I atill have 3 to 4 weeks left befor harvest so i dont want amber yet,but i dont know answer to you question lol

near the end of the flowering cycle, THC begins to break down and turns into another chemical compound called Cannabinol, or CBN (C21H26O2), in a process known as oxidization this is what makes them turn amber

do they turn amber when you start flushing?? mine are 10% amber the rest blurry/milky, i started flush and i want at leats 50% amber, will the rest turn amber in the next 7-10 days?

probably more like 2 weeks...but i like my trichs to be only like 10%-20% amber otherwise i am just wayy too lazy after i smoke bud thats like 50%-75%

Highhunter said:

Why don't any of the experts have a take on this...

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because experts dont leave their plants in darkness for 72 hours before harvest !!!
All your doing is stalling growth. take that 72 hours of darkness and put them on a normal 12/12 cycle and they will undoubtedly produce more weight and resin then in a dark period, resin begins its life in the vegetative stage and continues growing and maturing until they are ready to smoke ( or eat) , they can't just pop up out of nowhere in magic dark cycle.
but to answer your question, yes the plants trichs will turn amber in 72 hours of darkness but at a much slower rate depending on strain, generally sativas' trichs tend to turn amber slower than indica. The thc will still degrade in darkness but not as fast. but i can't pretend to be an expert, i don't have a huge maryjane farm with multiple experiments and expensive research and im sure the expert growers that do that definately know this question wouldn't risk anything by going on rollitup.
my two cents

2stroke said:

From what i know as a noob the 72hrs of drakness just removes more cylbole or how ever you spell it, this helps out by saving time with the curing process. The tri's will keep going at a normal rate probably slower i guess. Mine seems to have gone more amber after 3 weeks of curing from the looks.

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^^^ THAT IS COMPLETELY WRONG! You want an expert opinion?

The dark period does nothing but "shock" your plant into thinking its dying. Therefore it will pump every last bit its got in her to swell those cylaxes in hopes of reproducing/surviving! I even go as far as to put ice on top of the soil DURING the dark period... I don't THINK (tho not 100%) that it'll "mature" your triches at all... But IT DOES and WILL swell up those buds and produce more potentcy!

anyone else do a dark period and swear their buds get bigger?

Some one needs to tell all the outdoor growers out here in California about the 72 hour dark period before harvest. None of them I know are turning off the sun for three days.

Rumple said:

Some one needs to tell all the outdoor growers out here in California about the 72 hour dark period before harvest. None of them I know are turning off the sun for three days.

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I got a sun switch! I'll be using it this fall!!