Yah I don't see how it's smoke and mirror's when the pic is right there.
I have shown pix too. What's your point? You gonna chest beat and tell me you're getting more yield than me? Again, you guys don't have ANY science going here, just the same old cannabis forum bullshit I've been reading for 15 years.
Yah well R.C. Clarke needs to be discredited then. Its a weed none the less so its going to grow no matter what you do to it. If defoliation is so bad why do rose gardner's due it to promote there buds ? To promote their buds new growth in spring. Just basic gardening and common sense is all.
You arrogant know-it-alls can not discredit a scholar and horticulturist. Nice try. The misguided comment about roses clearly shows your lack of understanding regarding certain horticultural and plant processes. Rose gardeners prune their perennials during *dormancy* as a means to train them into a certain profile regarding height, width, removing dead wood etc. They do not do it for production except to maybe balance the root mass with the foliage/flower mass.
I'm a niche farmer as well as home gardener of veggies, fruits, olives, tropicals, nuts, berries, landscape trees.....I am or have grown it all. One of my crops is wine grapes which I sell to amateur winemakers. Here in about 3 weeks I'll be pruning DORMANT grapevine wood to keep them trained to a specific profile called Vertical Shoot Positioning aka VSP. Has nothing to do with crop load, that's another op done after flower set. My premium grapes are shaded by a heavy canopy.
I have peach trees, they were recently pruned, to open up the canopy and bring the height down to 7' or less so picking is easiest. Most of the fruit is shaded and is of premium quality - very large, sugary sweet, juicy, bold red skin colors.
Hass avocados are found within the canopy, shaded......
Enjoy your smoke and mirrors.
Uncle Ben