NO its not worth it. Just harvest the plant when its ready. Simple as that. No dark period is required before chopping.Quote:
Originally Posted by bluntar
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NO its not worth it. Just harvest the plant when its ready. Simple as that. No dark period is required before chopping.Quote:
Originally Posted by bluntar
LUDA.
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Timing the Harvest.
Many growers will disagree with us on when the best time is to harvest the buds (female plants). When the plants are left in the ground, and are alive but past the main bloom, the resinous qualities of the plant may become more apparent. The bracts and tiny leaves may swell in size, and the leaves feel thicker. The coating of resin glands will change colour. Leaves often yellow and fall form the plant. Much of the green colour in the flowering buds may also be lost. Harvests of these buds more closely resembles commercial Colombian grass than typical homegrown. The resin content of the dried buds may be higher, and the grass will smoke more harshly than if the buds were younger when picked. You may prefer these qualities in your grass, and some growers insist this grass is stonier. We feel that the grass will give you the highest high when it is picked as described previously. Smoking is a personal experience, and you should try different approaches and come to your own conclusions.
The first time you grow marijuana is largely a learning experience. Most growers can't wait to start their second crop, because they are certain that they'll improve on both the quantity and the quality of their crop, and this is usually true. The wise grower will not put all his proverbial eggs in one basket. It is a good idea to monitor potency by taking samples every few days when harvest time is drawing near, just as such monitoring is for deciding when to harvest growing shoots during vegetative growth.
In any garden, some of the plants will mature sooner than others. Use the plant(s) that is earliest to mature to decide at what point in its development the plant reaches maximum potency. This finding then serves as a guide for harvesting the rest of the plants.
Try to use buds from approximately the same position on the plant each time you sample. Take only enough to make a joint or two. The more you standardise your testing (and this includes your smoking evaluation), the more accurate your results may be.
Final Harvesting.
The time of harvest is a time of joy. It is also a time for caution. Unless the safety of your garden is assured, you will want to harvest quickly, quietly and as efficiently as possible. Ideally, each plant is harvested as it matures, but some of you will have to harvest all at once.
It is best to take cardboard boxes or large, sturdy bags to carry the harvest. You want to harvest the plants with as little crushing or damage to the flowers as possible.
Bring a strong knife, heavy shears, or clippers for cutting the stalks. The quickest way to harvest is to cut each plant at its base. Once the plants are on the ground, cut the stalks into manageable lengths for boxing or bagging. Separate large branches as needed for packing.
The bagged or boxed material should be moved to the curing or drying area as soon as possible. If you let the plants sit in the trunk of a car or in plastic bags, they will start to ferment and small in less than a day.
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so you are saying to pick a bud, roll a few joints with directly from the plant?...i dont know man...i thought you couldnt tell that the final product was gona be like untill it was actually final product...seems like it would be to wet to smoke and it would taste like chlorophyll
also i was wondering, i found a hermie before and it looks likr it pollinated one of my girls, she...IT is full of seeds....will this plant produce polin and pollinate my other plants of just produce seeds
WhaWha whaat ! ? Lordy Lordy those are nice... without the manipulationQuote:
Originally Posted by LUDACRIS
maneuvers ? ! They look like dat ! ? Shizt, I've gotta do some testing, cuz'n mine are taking to long to grow !
If you have drying space it is MUCH better to pull the plant up from the roots and hang it upside down in a dark place with ventilation for 4-7 days and only then cut off the branches. All of the energy from the roots will go into the buds.
You can do the same thing to tomato plants that have a lot of green tomatoes but you know a winter freeze is coming. They will hang forever and produce red tomatoes one after the other for winter.
Everything I read said roots grow in the dark period not so much the growth... or "Stretching for the light" as you put it luda. If you have some good references for that info id love to read it.
Also ive seen and had buds that grow like that. Actually found out the tops get like that most often than not from it being too hot. Were those leaves in that pic heat damaged?
Anyways... The dark and ice water definitely work. When you decide to harvest take a nug or two, then put the plant in the dark for 2-3 days with ice water then compare the two buds. You will notice a difference and will know for yourself if it works.
Oh I forgot.. Bigsby have you checked out Aquaponicherb's grows? He uses light manipulation as well as having his lights at various positions in his room to emulate the movement of the sun. Very awesome grow.
ok so i added an extra hour of dark to the cycle and i think im gona try the ice water think...is it as easy as ice cold water for the final watering and then no light for three days....i water tomorrow so i took a plant today and only gave it 4 hrs of light...tomorrow ice water for it and then 3 days of dark...before and after pics..i plan on harvesting at least one of my biggest plants on tuesday but if this works i will ice water and keep it dark untill friday so ill do before and after pics on that also..
here is before
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Originally Posted by GetThisOrDie
Seedlings stretch due to the influence various factors. In other words the way the genotype is expressed is determined by the biotic and abiotic factors affecting its growth. The site where the plants are grown may be conducive to stretching due to a nutrient deficiency or other factors like temperature or day length.
The source of the seed is also important. If the environment that the plants were from originally was consistant from year to year (for instance, indoors) and/or encouraged stretchy plants (crowding), natural selection may have passed on the trait for stretchy plants. If the seeds were from hybrid plants that were crossed "Willy-nilly" the variation of the offspring will blur the distiction of phenotypes.
When plants stretch due to competition for light, this is known as the "shade avoidance response phenotype" (SARP). The light reflected off of other plants has less red in it because the leaves of the other plants absorbed it already. This is how the plant knows how close it is to its neighbors. When there is less red, the plant stretches so it can compete better for the light. HPS lights are high in red spectrum, so plants grown under them stretch less.
Plants match their phenotype with the environment, but this can depend on other factors. Temperature and photoperiod can affect the response to red light by limiting which phenotypes are expressed. Higher temperatures, shorter photoperiods and dense planting make the plant more sensitive in its response to the amount of red.
The SARP is really an interaction between abiotic factors and the quality of light. The size of a plant that has stretched may be larger than a plant grown under a full spectrum, but overall yield will be less. A plant grown under a short photoperiod is more sensitive to red, but a plant with a long photoperiod period will stretch regardless of the spectrum because it has time to make a longer stem. In fact under longer photoperiods, the plants become less sensitive to red because seedling elongation affects the health of the adult plant.
The seedling is aware of it surroundings. The SARP isn't affected by photoperiod in a seedling because the seedling has to be aware of the density of the population, but if the day-length is short enough to induce flowering, then they will stretch. An elongated plant costs more to grow because your growing more stem and less bud. So under conditions of dense planting the temp and the photoperiod determne how close to plant to minimize stretching.
LUDACRIS.
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