Quote Originally Posted by Binzhoubum
Why would it "maximize the THC concentrations" if there were no light?

On this board,

http://boards.cannabis.com/showthread.php?t=69692

Zandor said, "It takes a minimum of 3 day's for plants to react to any change in light cycle of a normal grow and more like 5-7 days for the plant to react and produce negative results."

Doesn't seem like keeping them in darkness would do much of anything except harm the plants...


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What zandor is refering to has to do with is hormonal reactions which stimulate flowering as opposed to veg state. If the plant is exposed to an adequate amount of light for a period of a couple of days then it will interupt the flowering stage and send the plant back into veg stage. This has nothing to do with lights affect on THC degredation. Light is a degradent stimulus and causes thousands of chemicals to degrade into sister chemical compounds. In chemistry light degredation is a forced test that you run in order to see the rate of degradation and the amount of degredents produced.