Quote Originally Posted by mand
Hello Trummel, Harddon

Intresting posts, I really do read the different ways and methods , I think it sounds worthwhile try a dark period before the next harvest. Well I tend to cut them at different times so if I try the dark period on the last ones, that will give me something to make a comparrasion with.
Thanks guys

love mand xxx

that sounds like a good plan to me, for a one on one comparison with the same strain, but usually people start flowering all plants at the same time (don't know about you) so they wouldn't know when to harvest them correctly (since it's completely dark in there)

to solve this instead of doing guesswork, we have always had more than one growing chamber with the same strain, so it was pretty easy for us to estimate a week before harvest to set one in complete darkness (we never decided weeks in advance when to do that.. such decisions can only be made when looking at the plants on time and estimating their ETH (estimated time of harvest )
whenever the same strain in the regular 12/12 chamber was ready we started harvesting both..

we could have varied this phase, but to be honest we're lazy suckers, and once we start harvesting, we wanted to finish everything in "one" go and not having to restart over again (which we had to do anyhow because of multiple locations)

sorry bill, i don't have much info on re-vegging, because at that time clones were legal in austria (they're not anymore) and we had no trouble getting them.. well actually i was the one selling them to multiple friends (so they didn't care, and i got some money off the clones) and we always "re-filled" the spots right away


by the way, i fully agree with harddon on the "light" factor, but it's pretty hard to harvest, trim etc. in the complete dark.
here one of those red lights that are also used for film- or photo-labs can help (low wavelenght and it's easy on the eyes.. might take you 10 minutes to get fully adapted, but then you'll see pretty clear), or, if you have the money for some "toys for boys" you could use nightvision-goggles as we did once (and they ARE fun if you're moving around in a house that's completely dark )