Legend has it after 2 days raises THC and 3 days, terps begin to degrade. Something like that.Wow you guys sure know your shit. I’m glad you guys gave me good advice, who knows how I’d fuck up my plants otherwise. But I just fed them their first water only and in 8 days I’ll throw em in dark for 2 days.
There are some case studies being documented by compliance Labs, 36 hours dark seems to be the sweet spot. It’s not yet proven in a controlled scientific study, but my lab tests showed 36 & 48 hour darkness increased THC-9 as others lab tests I’ve seen online have suggested.
More on this theory, and how it meshes with the fact that it just keeps you from chopping it for 2-3 days. Most people chop too early. I'm one of them. I don't need weed, but sometimes the love affair with the plant can be just done. I'm tired of looking at you, I want to smoke you, whatever. Some plants I keep to the 20%-ish amber range but that's rare. Usually that's the fast finishers that sneak up on me.
Do you have a link to their study or at least the testing they are doing. I’m all for learning more about this.
This is one of the explanations I’ve heard before that just doesn’t make any sense to me. Cannabis doesn’t have any pollinators to attract, because it uses the wind to pollinate, and the trichomes are for defense not for catching pollen.
I started a thread a long time ago about the daek period and there was a video on you tube that was in the thread. ITs been awhile since i watched it. It has some lab results that showed some increase in terps and thc 1st 48 hrs and then still some terps increase and some degrade after 48hrs. IDK I cant tell a difference. I did have my 1st unflushed plant from living soil this past grow and it burns as clean as my flushed Dyna Grow plants.
I’ll see if I can find it. I’m curious about what kind of controls they used and if they used clones for the testing. If they just compared a plant that was chopped, to one that was left another 48hrs in darkness, and didn’t leave a third in the flower cycle for that additional 48hrs, then I would be very skeptical about their findings.
He used one plant chopped at different times. the spread sheet at the end sums it up. I am curious if different parts of the plant will show different levels of what not depinding on how much light/air and all the other variables. Not all nugs are created equal.
Ok, so this is one of the reasons why growers should not be doing these tests and actual scientists should, and I will explain why below.
This is why I posted that high school science thing. We all test stuff but you have to be able to interpret the data properly. Anything we test, if not done with clones, and simultaneously in the same tent is anecdotal at best.
I keep hoping this guy will drop part 2 as I think it would really help me decide if the dark period is bro or real science.
