in absolute darkness for 72 hours before cutting and drying. woodydude Active Member. Week 8+: End of Flowering, Final Flush. Yeah I mean you look at your plants and you say "these are ready to harvest now" and then you simply plunge them into uninterrupted darkness for 24-36 hours and when you open the tent back up you harvest immediately. i always thought it was hog-wash. gonna do it this round. If more than 1 - then maybe you could answer your own question by doing a side by side comparison? By the end of the first month of the flowering stage, you may notice small clusters forming from the female flowers. Jul 8, 2011 #4 I dont like the 36hr dark before flower. This is an important phase that determines the size of your buds. Fertilizer proportions are extremely important in the early flowering stages of Marijuana. If the humidity is too high, this can lead to stone hard buds, which might develop mold in the last weeks of their growth phase. Delay of Flowering at High Temperature in Chrysanthemum: Duration of Darkness and Transitions in Lighting Determine Daily Peak Heat Sensitivity . After your plant has been a seedling for anywhere from 3-6 weeks, it will enter into what is referred to as the vegetative stage. Extra hours of darkness during this stage doesn’t hurt your yields. JavaScript is disabled. The flowering cycle takes place after the vegetative phase and is when cannabis plants begin to produce flowers. Canuck 147 - so you suggest it's worth a try? I've read the science on it. Should produce more trichomes and terpenes. maintain the res at 0 degress celcius (32 fernhiet) for the period of darkness you choose. I've done 24 hours, 48 and 72 and found no ill effects with any of those darkness times. But we are talking about the whole plant not the harvested buds. I'm not sure if it's suppose to accelerate the production of THC or what to be honest i just wanted to give it a go. The only difference is in the amount of time needed to reach harvest. Extremely Sativa dominant strains are known to flowe… But many said that's garbage and all it does is delay your harvest when you're already finished. Someone with 16 plants with a common flowering time of 8 weeks will need about two months and five days from start to finish. so during the light period your plants thc level goes down as its destroyed by light. thc is destroyed by light, thats a large reason its there, to shield it from harmful uv rays. When the light cycle provides your cannabis plants with longer hours of uninterrupted darkness, they enter the flowering stage. Take a minute to sign up so you can ask questions, discuss your grow, or brag about your plants with other real-life cannabis growers! Even though it’s known by growers that if you leave your plants up to 48hrs in complete darkness before harvest they will produce more trichomes and fatten the buds in one last attempt to preserve the species before dying, it’s said that if you leave the White Widow in complete darkness you’ll be able to hear her cry and in one last attempt to preserve the species before dying, it will produce an insane amount of resin … Probably one of the most important aspects of providing darkness to weed plants is the fact that when you shorten the amount of lighting, the plants are receiving is what encourages the marijuana to switch into the flowering stage. Sativas and sativa-dominant strains, however, can take over 10 weeks or more to reach maturity. The science says the darkness stresses the plant to produce everything it can as a stress response and a "last gasp attempt to live" as it thinks it's dying. 24hr 36 hr seems the average. you can put a plant into 72 hours of darkness, you should lower temps as well if you want her to put out resin, maybe turn a little bit purple too. After two weeks with 12 hours of light and 12 hours of darkness, the plant stops growing and every bud starts to develop its first flowers. It’s the increase in red that triggers flowering. You’ll need to do a bit more work before it is harvest time. During the day or lights-on period, two receptors, phytochrome red and phytochrome far-red, are in balance. These clusters are called buds. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Thats wat i like to hear.lol. the idea behind leaving them in dark is to cause them to stress a bit and give their last bit of energy. 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