Pre-Harvest Darkness... Yay or Nay??

bugbee did some initial testing, if i recall? It didn't cause anything measurable and i think he even said it's probably more likely that giving 'more' light the last few days would have a greater chance of some small insignificant effect... ~2 days won't change the spots on your plant. after ~100 days growing it.

I liked the answer about LLMs recently and will re-use it here... "Fuck all" Bwahaha. Unless someone has a method to competently measure aerial density of trichomes, i just don't buy it. This is something that is hypothesized by the 'culture' but then nobody tests it. That's a major reason why anecodte failed so horribly for 200,000 years of human existence.

Triggers autophagy and dark-induced senescence. Extended dark triggers programmed cell death or PCD, Protein/enzyme synthesis is upregulated, accelerating breakdown of chlorypyl among other things. Just be grateful to make it to harvest. Enzymes drastically lower the activation energy required for chemical reactions. They function similarly to coefficient multipliers, exponentially increasing the reaction rate, not just x1,2,3, talking anywhere up to 10^{17}. Understand that when you cut a stem off to harvest, the stem, similar to a clone cutting, is not clinically dead; it hasn't triggered biological PCD, stem/enters a highly active transition phase where it balances Programmed Cell Death (PCD), and cellular regeneration. Until water levels force its hand, by then it's been 3 days @ 60/60, plant is almost dry, and it's not even begun to breakdown chlorphyl its spent 3 days in regenerative mode, 0 Enzyme release. Sorta how it works. For cell death to be classified as PCD, the cell must remain metabolically active enough to execute its own genetically controlled self-destruction sequence. Can't just hack it off or boil the roots. That's necrosis. One tries to signal the trigger, PCD upregulates the enzyme, then harvest. If you just hack it off, it spends days "hanging", "drying" in "regenerative" mode before PCD is signaled and triggered.

Well, the reason you do it is to signal the plant the end of life, which will lead to more resinproduction. No you could leave them in the growroom and most definetly should not use bags,, as this will most likely lead to mold. I just turn off my lights and thats it.

you can drop the temp 10 degrees at night, to stress the plant into improving their defense mechanism (Tricombs) - But if you cure correctly and flush the last week with no nutrients... The Chlorophyll levels will be minute. The drying and Curing is the most important phase to have good quality smoke, and I often neglected. maintaining a 60/60 is the industry standard.