Darkness Before Harvest?

[Rusty Trichome]

Penetrator is basically a fancy surfactant from what I understand. The low budget way to mimic its action is adding a drop of dish soap to your foliar sprays.

Cool, thanks. Any word on what to substitute for the Liquid Light?
(worth a try, lol)

[Algag]

Hey stinky what is snowstorm? Can't find any info on google.

[stinkyattic]

algag, also look up 'purple maxx' and 'stacker'. The product has been re-named at least twice haha. It's made by Humboldt fertilizers, the company that makes Gravity. It's a kelp-derived hormone that encourages both surface resin formation, and increased purple pigment development in strains that are already capable of that.

[JersHaze]

I experimented with this on my last grow. It was Nirvana BB x NL. At harvest time, I let half of the crop sit in darkness for 48 hrs. The rest I harvested right away(yes the test group got two more days). It was REALLY close. I had three other people look at the buds with me from botch harvests. I can say with much certanty that the group exposed to the dark period has a LITTLE more cystals on them. But that is what this is all about, a bunch of little changes to hopefully make one BIG one.

Jer

[guitarman42]

I tried the 'total darkness the last 3 days' my last 3 grows ... I noticed zero difference, but give it a shot, costs nuthin' to try ... be sure to keep your fans going though, ya don't want high humidity/mold problems ... :jointsmile:

Ya it cost 3 days time when it should be gettin light and producing thc. hee

[WashougalWonder]

Ya, I think the darkness thing is an old wives tale as I do take one out and not bother to trim for a couple days sometimes.

BUT I do notice a huge increase in trichome production by adding in the blue spectrum light by using a 400W HPS with white and blue spectrum for the last 2 weeks. My estimate is in that last 2 weeks, trichome production doubles. It is visible to the naked eye!

I don't know if it is UV or not, but I just set it at one end of the flower room and the plants go there for the last 2 weeks. The damn bulb was spendy tho, more than any other, would have to go get the box and look at the brand, not handy now.