Female plants in the end of flowering, let´s say two and a half months on a 65 day flowering strain, tend to produce a few male flowers in a attempt to produce seeds, since until that time period she hadn´t been polinated by a real male, and this is simply why cannabis is a diocious (male an female) but with hermafrodite potencial plant. Has anyone out there with experience done a side by side comparison to determine whether 24-36 hours of darkness before harvest actually works? during darkness their is no light to break down the thc so your plant should be able to reach its maximum level. 72 hrs was shown to increase some strains by 30% in one study. Register now to gain access to all of our features. I'd like to hear from anyone who has some real life experience with this. Although Marijuana needs potassium and phosphor in the flowering stage, it is vital that the soil is fertilized with Nitrogen too. Should produce more trichomes and terpenes. The resin production occurs during night. 1999 ). 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. ), but they are not quite ready. Large vertical growth occurs in the flowering stage, especially if the plant in question is a large sativa strain that can reach the height of 2 metres or more. your friend does not understand why an extended dark period is given in flowering. The little flowers are now just small white balls, spread along the branches. If you have discovered mold in a bud, it is as good as lost. Canuck 147 - so you suggest it's worth a try? i used to flush when i used chemical nutes, i just gave them a good flush with just blackstrap molasses and rainwater, you can do it twice if she dries up. Extremely Sativa dominant strains are known to flowe… Do you think the bud would dry a lot faster being it hasn't had a drink in three days? It’s best to slightly lower temperatures in flowering 3. If odor is under control now - adding terpenes will increase that odor. woodydude Active Member. Lights do need to be kept close to a crop to maximize output, but having them too close can cause trouble. Once registered and logged in, you will be able to contribute to this site by submitting your own content or replying to existing content. When should marijuana plants be forced to flower? thc is destroyed by light, thats a large reason its there, to shield it from harmful uv rays. 72hrs Dark Then Harvest. These clusters are called buds. 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 … This page was generated at 02:25 PM. I also must dry in the grow tent. A 12 hour night is long enough to force almost any cannabis plant to enter the flowering stage and finish maturing in a reasonable amount of time. (if you want a little sweeter taste and have the time, shock ripen 10-14 days after flushing) DO NOT ALLOW ANY LIGHT IN DURING SHOCK RIPINING!!! I was talking to a friend yesterday who was tryin to tell me about this 72hour darkness at the end of flush with then a 24 hour light on the very last day to shock the plant completely...? The plants don’t grow in length at all anymore, but they still get a bit wider. I plan to measure a few buds beforehand and after and I'm gonna eyeball the trichromes to see if I can see any difference. Unfortunately because of where I am growing I don't have the freedom to harvest at different times or separate the plants. Should produce more trichomes and terpenes. I did 72 hours darkness before my last harvest. And shall i still fluah while there in darkess or leave them...thanks. Altering them can cause a deficiency. I recently saw some dude on YouTube that also tosses a bowl of ice cubes around the base of the plant before the dark time because the plant thinks it’s the start of winter. In reading through other forums it seems there's a 50/50 response - half say it does nothing, half say it helped. When you chose to have an indoor plantation, you can give your plants 10 to 12 hours of darkness per day. Supposedly it makes more terpenes come out and helps with smell and taste. In darkness, the far-red change into red. Ultimately, yields will end up more or less the same whichever method you use. It is exactly this answer to the dark period that will give you control of flowering. 24hr 36 hr seems the average. Plants will shoot up towards the light to a point where it can be dangerous. However, an interruption to light that could leave your plants in darkness for many hours might hurt the plants. In this marijuana grow weekly update, I show you 3 plants in flowering and 1 plant drying. Since you are concerned about your incoming harvest, you have to be particular with different stages of flowering. Outdoors, this will normally happen when the days get shorter around the end of summer. If more than 1 - then maybe you could answer your own question by doing a side by side comparison? I don't have the capacity to do a side by side but I am going to try this for the first time this grow. You must log in or register to reply here. It’s the increase in red that triggers flowering. Leaving Plants In Darkness For 3days At End Of Flowering Period 2 Prod. Nice Thread. 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. But we are talking about the whole plant not the harvested buds. So people claim leaving the plant in the dark for two or three days will give the plant the opportunity to focus on that. I am close to my first harvest and am wondering if it's worth trying this. Leaving the plants in darkness for up to 24 hours might not cause any harm. The entire plant right? When it approach harvest, the y ellowing of the leaves is normal because cannabis is putting its last energy into bud growth. So eith 24, 36, or 72 hour darkness then back to normal 12 hour for the last day....? When the cannabis plant leaves vegetative growth and goes into flowering mode, you have to switch to a different fertilizer in order to maximize and help your plant achieving its full potential. Flowering started a month ago, and the buds are swelling up more and more. Very bad ideal that will lower the quality and amount of your harvest. good stuff, Dark. The plant was a Black Domina from Sensi seeds. Humidity levels need to be lowered to 40-50% 2. When the light cycle provides your cannabis plants with longer hours of uninterrupted darkness, they enter the flowering stage. i always thought it was hog-wash. gonna do it this round. Keywords: flowering delay, heat sensitivity, night temperature, photoperiod, short-day. 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! Nighttime provides darkness, keeping cannabis on somewhat of a natural clock. I have a solid carbon filter that so far is working great, but yeah.....so it's either try it with all six plants or don't try it. Your plant should be in darkness for at least 12 hours a day during the flowering stage. All pistils are white and increase very rapidly. For example, I give my cannabis plants 12 hours of light each day for most of the flowering stage (as is considere the standard for flowering cannabis plants), then 3-4 weeks before harvest, I'd reduce that to 11 hours of light each day, then a few days later I'd change to 10 hours of light each day, etc. 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. Quote: day 7 of flushing-shock ripening- fill res half way with ice and leave box in darkness for at least 3 days and as long as 7 days. 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. You’ll need to do a bit more work before it is harvest time. Thats wat i like to hear.lol. Week 8+: End of Flowering, Final Flush. Someone with 16 plants with a common flowering time of 8 weeks will need about two months and five days from start to finish. It’s the time that the plants experience a longer period of darkness every single day. The plant uses the resin as a sunscreen to stop UV light from hitting the leaves. 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. 12-12, the even split of 12 hours of light and 12 hours of darkness, only occurs naturally close to the equator. Extra hours of darkness during this stage doesn’t hurt your yields. Your plants will stop growing and instead put their energy into producing buds (flowers). It's still curing after hanging, i don't know what to expect LOL, Smoke Ganja create Peace Respect Nature don't trash the Planet. Indoor growers rely on timers to artificially dial in this light-dark cycle. But many said that's garbage and all it does is delay your harvest when you're already finished. As reported previously, when grown in darkness in shaken liquid cultures with sucrose or on vertically placed solid medium with sucrose or glucose, Arabidopsis plants can overcome skotomorphogenesis and flower ( Araki and Komeda 1993 , Roldán et al. I've done 24 hours, 48 and 72 and found no ill effects with any of those darkness times. Odor is a major issue here as I share my house with others who don't care about the grow but can't have the odor for professional reasons. Fertilizer proportions are extremely important in the early flowering stages of Marijuana. This weed plant is about one and a half weeks into the flowering cycle, the marijuana flowers are just starting to form. I just did this for 24hrs only and i don't know if it made a difference? I think i might try giving it 36hrs of darkness before flowering we'll see how well it works . At the end of your grow, it’s big buds that you want on the plants. Colloquially speaking. during darkness their is no light to break down the thc so your plant should be able to reach its maximum level. maintain the res at 0 degress celcius (32 fernhiet) for the period of darkness you choose. No idea if it did anything as I had to harvest everything same time. From week 4-5 plants stop growing in size and start growing, fattening their buds and darkening their pistils. I have just started to flush my big buddah cheese plant after 10 weeks of flowering, i am doing a ten day flush. JavaScript is disabled. I try to water the day before I go into dark and I've never seen issues. Definitly gonna try to go this way next time. They are the same buds that you will eventually harvest (yay! The resin balls also get bigger, become sticky and start to get an increasingly stronger smell. Try to make sure that the humidity stays below 50% in the last few weeks of the flowering period. If you have 10 plants, then it will take you about two months and two weeks. dont think you'll need to flush for 10 days if thats what you mean, i think that would kill a plant. I couldn't find anyone who had done an actual side by side test via whatever means and reported on it, I was hoping someone here might have done that experiment. i wouldnt want to. Plants know when to do this by measuring the amount of darkness in each day. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Delay of Flowering at High Temperature in Chrysanthemum: Duration of Darkness and Transitions in Lighting Determine Daily Peak Heat Sensitivity . 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. I veg 24/7 with light and just go straight to 12/12. 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. The flowering cycle takes place after the vegetative phase and is when cannabis plants begin to produce flowers. At some point, plants instinctively know how to begin their breeding efforts. Extra Hours of Darkness in Flowering Cycle. Have you personally tried this? Or harvest half (as in one side) then go to the dark room with the remaining half. 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. 72 hrs was shown to increase some strains by … Author information. so during the light period your plants thc level goes down as its destroyed by light. But many said that's garbage and all it does is delay your harvest when you're already finished. Growers who don’t provide 12 hours of uninterrupted darkness during the entire flowering phase risk having their female plants become hermaphrodites that develop seeds. you probably couldn't tell if it works or not, the difference would be so slight, i do it because I run a perpetual and it frees up space while I harvest, i can already have new plants in the place of the ones in the dark waiting to be harvested. That's what i did but only for 24hrs don't think it made a difference in the dark closet and i did'nt want a spider to crawl in them LOL. the idea behind leaving them in dark is to cause them to stress a bit and give their last bit of energy. I have a few friends who grow who swear by it and one who thinks it complete garbage, lol. I dont think quicker than this is gaining much! You're currently browsing the forum as a guest. I usually get preflowers after 4 days and with seeded plants can tell the sex after 5 days usually. Sativas and sativa-dominant strains, however, can take over 10 weeks or more to reach maturity. This paper describes the flowering in darkness of cop1 mutants, with an extensive analysis of the flowering of the cop1-6 mutant. thc is destroyed by light, thats a large reason its there, to shield it from harmful uv rays. For most indica and indica-dominant strains the entire cycle usually lasts between 7-9 weeks. In addition, if you need to tie or move your plants, bear in mind that now they are putting all their efforts int… This provision can happen for outdoor cultivation at the end of the summer. Many growers leave plants … The number of buds remains the same. Most indoor growers give their plants 12 hours of darkness and 12 hours of light each day to initiate budding and continue with that 12/12 light schedule until it's time to harvest. Promix soil . Some people keep the plants in darkness for a couple days and then harvest. All times are GMT. (Then it turns to amber). in absolute darkness for 72 hours before cutting and drying. Two weeks is way to long and will have negative effects on final product. ​​​​​​3 X 3 gorilla. Colloquially speaking. This process will also "stop" the degradation of resin due to light and heat. Almost no leaves are being made anymore and the roots also don’t grow as quickly. The duration of this cycle varies depending on the genetics of your plant. 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. JOURNALS OPEN ACCESS … During the day or lights-on period, two receptors, phytochrome red and phytochrome far-red, are in balance. I've read the science on it. The Flowering Stage of Cannabis. 1. Temperatures with lights on 18-26 ° C (avoid high temperatures) At this stage, you should continue to train your plant if you started some weeks earlier and you should be seeing some changes. 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