MackSwell

Robert Clark said a very long time ago that the pistils can and will change color due to temperature, Humidity and even to minor environment change. So that says they are only an early indicator that the sex life of the plant is coming to an end and not necessary the maturation of the plants cycle of life.

I have read most of what KP posted and 90% of it is old news plagiarized from many other sources. Problem when you plagiarize is you may be passing on not only old news but rather incorrect information and spreading the wrong message or even incorrect information. I am not saying KP is guilt of anything; but rather the source was. Some is spot on and others are just flat wrong and have been disproved many times many years ago. I will not debate that today, just thinking about all the incorrect information out there gives me a head ach.

Our understanding of this great plant is always changing but the basic principle is here to stay.
The cycle of life is well understood so there is not much room for debate there.

You are saying that using the pistils can tell you when to start looking at the Trichomes but you should harvest by the Trichomes if you want true peak harvest then that is correct and I will give you that.

Using the pistils to set the time table to harvest is in-correct and not accurate so providing that type of misinformation is only spreading the wrong message to new growers.

Robert Clark and even Mell Franks, Jorge, Ed and others that have been around the block more then once all agree that there is no proof to date and at best only anecdotal evidence that prolonged dark may increase THC.

The whole idea of the dark period is very old; and with over 30 years of personal observation; I have noticed with my own eyes that it does look like there are more Trichomes but they are not more of them they are just pointing differently. The problem is that in the dark period there are many axons being produce that are only produced in the dark cycle and they boost the CBC as well. You are after the THC and not the CBC and there is a direct coloration between THC, delta9, CBC, CBN as well as others.

There is yet another study on going in the Netherlands that is trying to answer this question but they are finding that more of the CBC, CBN and about 25 other compounds’ found in the plant can interfere with THC production. I do not know when they will publish their findings but I assume it is still years away. There are still no conclusions and only more questions.

This plant is all about the Cycle of Life that it goes through and if you learn the little things about this plant you can grow larger, fatter, heaver buds but it’s all about the Cycle of Life of the plant.

You do know you can dry up pistils and with cool temperatures and dry humidity at an early cycle then normal for the plant? If it's early enough you can get the plant to turn hermie as well. That is when the plant feels that its life is coming to an end and it has not reproduced yet so life will find a way to survive. Hermies’ are that way to survive.

Most hermie plants are from excess heat but they can also be from an early forced sexual maturity of the plant and the pistils drying up to early as well.


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