The problem as I see it is this.
@ROOBIX
You clearly have extensive experience, and the capacity to think critically about cause and effect based on your lucid analysis of the "lights off" RH spike. Nice one. Thanks for that.
And you know full well that your acquired behavior of stressing the plant pre harvest is accurately described as "an old hippy trick"; an old trick, not one that old hippies employ.
I suggest we all critically inspect our own practices.
I know it is hard to gather data on practices that just seem like viral notions, but they can and do have an impact on the growing community.
Examples:
45 degree cut on clones
Cut made under water
Scarring the stem
Bisecting leaves of cutting
Ice water flushing
Lights out for x days before chopping
Calmag
Molasses and other sugar products to sweeten the bud
And last but not least; defoliation
These are all real things that we do, or do not do, but there is very little evidence of the reason, utility, or advantage gained thru these actions.
Marketers are at work trying to sell us products to serve our notions, only codifying and profiting from our general ignorance.
We can do better.