“I really wanna dance man, but all I hear is bs”
Leo, you ain’t lying cuz.
Seriously. Spin your plants 1080 degrees ending with the plant pointed due north. Wait to hear the widow of the boatman’s ghost bellow, then chop.
Mad terps son.
Other wise it’s back to the shire bilbo Schwaggins
there is science behind these claims, sort of, it's rooted in the fact that cannabis is a C3 vegative herb.
It does most of its chlorophyl production in the first couple hours of daylight, and most resin and terpine production will happen while the plant isnt growing, for a c3 plant that means at night.
The first ones to come up[ with this idea were just making educated assumptions, but then like with most things in this hobby, people picked it up and ran with it like it was the holy grail.
I have absolutely had plants high in volatile terps that benefitted from dark periods.
All my plants have benefitted (for at least the first 30 mins of harvest) from backing the lights way back, and turning the fans off for the last day or two though. If you have some heavy indicas, they may not like this, and may wet themselves a bit lol (transpiration between fan leaves)
Ymmv lol. Not all plants, not even most, will be perceivably any different doing it one way over the other, i tend to just recommend cutting fans off. That works better then either extreme if having a stronger terp punch at harvest is your goal.
But we also also know how you treat it from that point to the pipe is WAY more important then any of this..
I must admit, its a funny mental image imaging a new grower spending money on a carbon filter, stressing smell the entire grow in their apartment.... And then giving it 3 days of dark to make sure its as stinky as possible while your harvesting and trimming. That whole arrangement is just funny to me. And its happening right now, all over the country lmfao. You could smell me trimming at the corner store 2 blocks away back in KC lmfao. No matter what i did.
Every now and then, on my bike rides, it would just slap me in my face.... "Someone in the neighborhood just cut"