# Hay smell but why? **URL:** \ **Category:** Grow Support\ **Created:** [December 7, 2024, 8:11pm UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/hay-smell-but-why/116335 "2024-12-07T20:11:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 54
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Read post 5 in this thread. Might help you understand. Maybe not though. > [@Turning light off for the last time](https://ilgmforum.com/t/turning-light-off-for-the-last-time/115618/5): > > 24 hours of darkness. 24 hours of light. It’s not going to make your plant gro more or grow less IMO. Your plant has grown what it is going to grow. That said I like to cut mine after a full dark cycle before lights come on. I mean absolute dark can’t see nothing. Have to be use to area and feel your way. Reasoning I read that when the lights go off the nutrients travel down to the roots. When the lights come back on it takes the plant milliseconds to send the nutrients back up to the needed … --- _[View the full topic](https://ilgmforum.com/t/hay-smell-but-why/116335)._