My last harvest i decided to do a full on trim on the plant about 5 days before i harvested. The last 3 days I keep my plants in full darkness. When i pulled them out after the lasr 3days, the trichomes on the plant were more swollen and
showed an obvious increase in volume. Where i had inadvertently removed trichomes when i trimmed now had new trichome growth that was clear and not milky, but very apparent. Has any one else done this or know what this method is called? Im really pleased with the results but im highly doubtful this is the first time its been done and Im curious as to the inner workings of whats going on and the how and why of it as you understand it of course.
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Areas under stress or high lighting, damage ext at the right time can some times cause a flush of chrystals to push out to protect the flower and the supposed seed inside.
Destroying ripe resin youve been growing and getting right for weeks to get a small amount of frest imature resin isnt really practical. Although there are other expermental methods of some stress the last week you can look into that dont have one damaging the ripe resin heads. How good they work is up for debate, depends on what methods you use and how well you can use them. You could just extend the dark hours to 16hrs, go slightly cooler and drop humidity a bit wich all should help make the plant think its season is come to a rapid end so will do its last ditch quick atempt at protecting any flower and the seed its supposed to have inside. The plant has learned to respond to rapid darkening hours as coming winter or close of season. Outdoors this is done by the dark winter days light hours geting shorter some places 8hrs a day or less and in the few weeks leading upto to those light dark hours it signals to the plant to ripen and quickly finish out.
Cutting through a bud while growin in about wk 5-7 in a 8-9 week flower strain can also cause a flush of bud growth to pop out with new resin layer on top. But usual most of these methods are impracticle and its debated how well some even work, but if used correctly some of them
might get some small results.
You could also use house and garden shooting powder if your after abit more yield and you dont mind a layer of new grow pushing out all over the ripe buds. As thats what shooting powder does, those buds do also have a layer of fresh resin too.