Join you on that one.
Have found, removal of early fan leaves allows the bottom arms to come up and a lot of times there taller than what would be the top cola that can be seen on these plants. Plant support is on the centre yet side arms are already taller.
My thoughts are.
Plant releases an adrenaline type like we do. Fight or flight when leafs are cut/ broken off. This goes into growth if the leaf is not there to repair. Shurley?
Once defoliation starts with my plants it goes on pretty much most all the flowering period as well save the last couple of weeks. You may think WTF does all that leaf come from. Have had this laughed at and plenty of abuse for just saying it. LOL have a Abiotic stress elicitor inbuilt in my system and using another in the way of LED as that also has ASE status.
Time and the show will tell.
This study is a little off topic too but is a controlled experiment on stress factors.
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Something else to look at. Light.
To me now it's electromagnetic energy waves
HTF does a spider fly over Everest. It positively charges a section of its web it floats up and over. How does it get down with moisture and negatively charging the web. Clever fookers could teach NASA something I'm sure.
A bit off topic but it's all about energy waves not light.
So with purer forms in the way of LED can we get away with less wattage.
Going to be interesting seeing what GPW comes back with 30 watts per plant on this cheapo Quantum board.
With a lot more countries allowing cannabis there will be better documentation of what is good and what's not so good for the plants and our yields.
Will shade leaf removal make it into the annuls,
Go on I reckon so.
Shame the UK is still illegal.
