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Originally Posted by alexnoble
does putting plants in complete darkness for a week or so at the end of flowering cycle improves the harvest?
secondly, i have heard that you can cut the fan leaves off of plants towards the end of flowering, is that true or bullshit?? would it do more damage than good?
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I have found you will get a lot of crazy ideas from different people on how to peak-out a harvest. Several days of no light will definatly kill your plant. I think I read Hashmulph(sp)--the organic soil guy here-- uses 24 hours of darkness before harvest. He has his shit together so I would trust his advice. After all a flowering plant is protecting itself from the looming winter, long cold nights accompany winter, and we should try and replicate nature when possible.
When it comes to leaf chopping; less is more. Near the end of flowering most of the big sucker leafs will yellow and die anyway. It is best to remove dead/dying material from your grow area. Like Rumpleforeskin--another with his shit together--says(loosely translated): 'I agree not to chop off leaves if the plants agree to make fat buds'. I follow this advice.