The only thing I and anyone with plant knowledge will remove from the plant is dead leaves and lower branches (lolly pop) to encourage larger buds up top removing all of your leaves is like removing half the spark plugs from you car shit.won't run right...photosynthesis my friend without leaves the plant will be severely stunted or die..why do you think plants grow faster as they get bigger...more leaves to create energy thru photosynthesis..
[h=2]How-To Tutorial: The Controversial Technique of Defoliation[/h] Despite all the evidence (I've posted hundreds of pictures and shown dozens of growers in person), there is still somehow so much skepticism about defoliation techniques. Growers, especially new growers, often just say variations of, "It's common sense, how could removing any part of the plant cause you to get higher yields?"
I recently attended an advanced seminar with a prominent fellow grower and got roundly booed when attempting to describe the defoliation technique, even with pictures showing dramatic benefits.
Unlike many other growers,
I believe what's most important is studying how the plant actually grows, instead of assuming she grows how we think she should grow. Real experimentation and unbiased observers are the only way growers are going to learn how to get the best yields for the amount of time, money, and effort.
And it's true that some types of defoliation are brutal to the plants (such as when misguided growers removing all the leaves off extremely young marijuana plants), but other types of defoliation are actually hugely beneficial to increasing yields (I'll be showing you exactly what do do shortly).
And defoliation is beneficial for more than just marijuana, it also has been proven to increase yields for certain other types of crops. For example, it's well-known that cowpeas experience significant increases in yields when up to 50% of their leaves are defoliated during their flowering stage.
these are are my strawberry cough's and sour kush ladies, as you can see the majority of the fan leaves have been removed, this process is supposed to let in more light thus producing more buds, this is just a theory i picked up on line and because of limted space on previous grows im going to give this a whirl.. i will keep you posted week to week on grow status, so you will know fsecond hand if it does in fact make a difference good/bad i wont be flipping these ladies till about two weeks but i will be removing fan leaves every four days until 12/12 flip not going touch them after that.
but hey thats the reason for the experiment, failing( with proper notation) is better than success on the first couple of times, just chops down future mistakes, on another website i read to constantly remove them, so im trying it this way, next time ill have a little more solid information from experience (best teacher) to move forward. but thanks and please continue to give more information.
