can i chop?

[hmm]

hi all got a couple of ak47 7 weeks into flower but because of unseen circumstances need to cut them down,will it be ok at 7 weeks as they are 8 week plants? the pistils are around 45/55 brown,thanks for any help

[nuggdigger]

If you need to cut them down, you need to cut them down. Yes, they will be smokable. It can also help leaving your plants in the dark for a couple of days before chopping to make them "puke out" like there's no tomorrow. After chop, let them dry out slowly, leave on the fan leaves so that the plant can metabolize as long as there is still moisture in her, were trying to get out every last drop of thc..i hope you've flushed or it may not even be burnable..

peace:kind:

[hmm]

ok thanks i thought extra day of light better than leaving them in dark? and they have been flushed on plain water for about 8 days

[Irie1]

Sweet, you should be looking good if they have been flushed! I have seen people pull when there are mostly white hairs and the herb has still been good. Best I can do. Peace.

[hmm]

thanks for that not so worried now but only thing is they have also lightly seeded loads of tiny seeds will this still be ok,thanks again

[The Cannarchist]

Oh dear.....unless you pick them out it is going to taste seedy.....Better luck next time.Did you have a male or did they go hermi?

[hmm]

hermied on me

[c-ray]

for future reference: if you water the roots for a couple days with ice water it can cause the seeds on most strains to abort, and they will stop growing...

[hmm]

ok will remember that thanks,what about this thing of keeping them in dark for last 2 days does that really work?

[nuggdigger]

I think what you really want to know is what a plant does in the light and in the dark..."respiration" and "transpiration"

off to work now..lol...you'll get great answers from others in the mean time im sure;)

peace:kind:

[nuggdigger]

Transpiration is the evaporation of water from plants. It occurs chiefly at the leaves while their stomata are open for the passage of CO2 and O2 during photosynthesis.

heres a lil dittle i found on respiration..lol
Plant respiration and photosynthesis

Q: what are the differences between respiration (in plants) and photosynthesis?

-Lim Zhao Liang (age 8)
Tampines North Primary School, SIngapore

A: Hi Lim Zhao,

Plants, like all other living organisms, need to make use of stored chemical energy in order to perform their life functions -- to grow, to transport nutrients, to reproduce, and to protect themselves. They do this all the time, using free oxygen from the air and use the sugars that they have stored inside to make carbon dioxide and water. Sounds backwards from what a plant ought to be doing! Plants are special in that they also perform an almost reverse reaction, that of converting carbon dioxide and water and other nutrients found in the soil into sugars plus oxygen, via photosynthesis, aided by the molecule chlorophyll.

Here’s a web page with lots of photosynthesis links to learn more about this fascinating reaction.http://photoscience.la.asu.edu/photosyn/education/learn.html

Plants can only perform photosynthesis during the daytime, and leafy trees drop their leaves in the autumn in temperate climates, so they are unable to perform photosynthesis in the winter. They still perform respiration in order to use stored energy and survive during these times, though.

Tom


so transpiration is a light day time function, and respiration is a dark night time function, just as in homo sapiens..we feed at day and burn energy..and rebuild and sleep at night.
If we go on the hypothesis that plants regenerate and build THC at night, and consume power and photosynthesize and tire out during the day, then the assumption is the THC is 'ripest' , more, and fresher, not depleted..in the early morning, b4 the sun comes up.

this is one of those Grey areas in pot theory..some are fore, some against with other hypothesis, deduce your own logical conclusions...or..chop some/half at lights off..and some/half b4 lights on.

the point of leaving the plants longer then just one night period is based on pr/pfr data. The hypothesis is that the plant senses it can't survive and this is the end of its life and it pours all of its efforts into reproduction(THC formation)

hope this helps..i'd be interested to here what others think..

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