Have you used defoliation to control stretch?

lime73

lime73

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Quoted from same link...did you read it all?

"When defoliating, take 20% of the leaves at most in one session. If you’re inexperienced with defoliation, it’s recommended you take far less, and do your defoliation over a couple of weeks. Leave at least a week between defoliation sessions. Taking too many leaves in a short period of time can seriously stunt your cannabis plants."

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.growweedeasy.com/defoliation
 
bk78

bk78

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lime73 said:
Quoted from same link...did you read it all?

"When defoliating, take 20% of the leaves at most in one session. If you’re inexperienced with defoliation, it’s recommended you take far less, and do your defoliation over a couple of weeks. Leave at least a week between defoliation sessions. Taking too many leaves in a short period of time can seriously stunt your cannabis plants."

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.growweedeasy.com/defoliation
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Damn. I wish mine got stunted from removing all my leaves (which I did at day 18 of flower) 8CD1B424-F7F7-4578-B59C-62C3B371786E.jpeg
 
Tetrahedral

Tetrahedral

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Boatguy said:
You should apply your criticism to your own posts... Mostly garbage, mixed with condescending bullshit
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No, a palm tree has a big trunk with lots of starch reserves.

You could apply the principle to cannabis, work out it's starch reserves and what hit it can take before you stretch that, would be condescending to not but walk round like you have an answer everyone should believe and quote palm and pea facts in evidence. Seems what a lot of products and gimmicks are doing so your in good company there.
 
Boatguy

Boatguy

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Tetrahedral said:
No, a palm tree has a big trunk with lots of starch reserves.

You could apply the principle to cannabis, work out it's starch reserves and what hit it can take before you stretch that, would be condescending to not but walk round like you have an answer everyone should believe and quote palm and pea facts in evidence. Seems what a lot of products and gimmicks are doing so your in good company there.
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I like pea's
 
bk78

bk78

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Tetrahedral said:
No, a palm tree has a big trunk with lots of starch reserves.

You could apply the principle to cannabis, work out it's starch reserves and what hit it can take before you stretch that, would be condescending to not but walk round like you have an answer everyone should believe and quote palm and pea facts in evidence. Seems what a lot of products and gimmicks are doing so your in good company there.
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I have a bellybutton
 
Boatguy

Boatguy

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bk78 said:
Should have plenty of fluff for edibles and hash if that’s your thing

I like put as little bud as I can into my hash bin

bongsmilie
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About 2 weeks into flower. Trimmed some lower branches and some middle leaves.. Not a defoliator at all really. The lowers make for good edibles and ice water hash
 
Hobbes

Hobbes

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Satax said:
whats the point to defoliate so much?
Specially when the leaves comes back???
I think just because of doing that the grow take more time...:sleep:

have a nice one
Satax
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The leaves grow back but they grow back in different places.

Large fan leaves at the nodes are chopped to open light to bud spots and leaves grow back around the bud spots.

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This is my 5th grow using these topping and defoliating procedures, I'm not sure that I'm growing any bigger colas but the total harvest is some better.

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Hobbes

Hobbes

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Day 25 of flower and I assume that all of the stretch is done. Blue Dream ended up 27" from the light, down from 28.5 at the start of stretch. Lemon Haze finished 25" from the light, down from 28".

All 4 of my plants finished better than 24" from the light, at which point I was going to monster crop.

End of experiment, successful.

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Kassiopeija

Kassiopeija

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Hobbes said:
The leaves grow back but they grow back in different places.

Large fan leaves at the nodes are chopped to open light to bud spots and leaves grow back around the bud spots.
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Exactly, so when you schwazz a plant result will be more nodes, harbouring a potential for more budsites. So less thick colas but more of them. I found it stuns the plant much to long to be worthwhile, like, a full week to revert back to be fully outfitted with leaves, which, also are much more but smaller. It's perhaps a good manipulation technique when one wants to artificially stiffle a plant in growing bigger, e.g. when one has a few smaller ones to wait for until flowering them...
 
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Apalchen

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I find doing it too early causes too many leaves to grow back that end up shading out too many buds. I like defoliating aggressively at day 21 and a sometimes a little more at day 42. If I go earlier than day 21 it requires a much more aggressive defoliation at day 42. In a small tent that would be okay, for me that would add up to another days worth of labor.
 
lime73

lime73

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Whats up with the plant at back that didn't grow its leaves back?

BTW monster cropping is taking cuttings from a flowering plant. :bigjoint:
 
Kassiopeija

Kassiopeija

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lime73 said:
Whats up with the plant at back that didn't grow its leaves back?
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tbh the whole canopy seems not thick enough - as one shouldn't be able to look through and directly see the bottom of the tent. But I'm curious to see how it is going to turn out in the end.
 
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