So, I am going to be harvesting tomorrow and I have read a few threads about all of the different "tricks" people use to improve yield/potency/quality of their herb right before harvest. The main ones I have questions about are.
1) 24 hour dark period before harvest. Anyone use this? Searched the forums and saw that some people even said 72 hours of all darkness and then cut it down. Reason - nutes climb into all of the branches/stalks durning the sunlight hours, and go into the soil and the roots at the night time hours, so less nutes in ur bud = tastier bud? Also someone said the plant knows it is going to die and just produces huge amounts of resin as a last dieing effort to catch pollen.
2) Trimming all of the major fan leaves and as much leaf off the bud as possible, and leave just the bud still growing on your stems for just 1 more 12 hour period and then harvesting. So in this way you would basically trim as much leaf as you can from the plant, leaving all of the bud sites, supposedly transfers all remaining energy to the bud and they swell in size??
Fact or fiction? or at least personal experiences
Ready to come down tomorrow, so I hope those responses are quick! Thanks all. Oh and she was a random bagseed that a friend gave me whe it was like 1.5 feet tall in veg, badly taken care of. Hermied on me 2 . But thats ok i guess, first flowering plant not everything can be great right? Looks frosty, smells delicious, never smelled lemon diesel but I really feel like thats just right on.
GrassArt
1) 24 hour dark period before harvest. Anyone use this? Searched the forums and saw that some people even said 72 hours of all darkness and then cut it down. Reason - nutes climb into all of the branches/stalks durning the sunlight hours, and go into the soil and the roots at the night time hours, so less nutes in ur bud = tastier bud? Also someone said the plant knows it is going to die and just produces huge amounts of resin as a last dieing effort to catch pollen.
2) Trimming all of the major fan leaves and as much leaf off the bud as possible, and leave just the bud still growing on your stems for just 1 more 12 hour period and then harvesting. So in this way you would basically trim as much leaf as you can from the plant, leaving all of the bud sites, supposedly transfers all remaining energy to the bud and they swell in size??
Fact or fiction? or at least personal experiences
Ready to come down tomorrow, so I hope those responses are quick! Thanks all. Oh and she was a random bagseed that a friend gave me whe it was like 1.5 feet tall in veg, badly taken care of. Hermied on me 2 . But thats ok i guess, first flowering plant not everything can be great right? Looks frosty, smells delicious, never smelled lemon diesel but I really feel like thats just right on.
GrassArt