Defolation question

You wouldn't benefit from defoliation with that short of a canopy, I vote leave the leaves.

Impressive canopy, but not vertically tall enough to where it would benefit from defoliation.

Also, you can defoliate any time, there is no scientific date or time. When you strip leaves or branches off the plant it can cause some strains to stall for a few days or even longer, this is why no one who knows the plant will pluck fan leaves during prime production stage being mid/late flower. Earlier in stretch say within day 21 of transfer to 12/12 lighting you would be just fine stripping away large shading fan leaves or pruning away scraggly lower branches.

po namyśle zdecydował się go lekko rozcieńczyć, taki jest efekt, ledwo widoczny, a myślę, że poprawi to cyrkulację powietrza i poziom nawilżenia

harris hawk said:

There might be some defoliation needed ? many do a heavy defoliation in week 4 of flower (day21) if you don't defo your yields might suffer - also consider fans which member mentioned

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I did a slight defoliation, the leaves are not suffocating on top of each other, but it is still so dense that the canopy covers the entire box.

harris hawk said:

There might be some defoliation needed ? many do a heavy defoliation in week 4 of flower (day21) if you don't defo your yields might suffer - also consider fans which member mentioned

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Removing leaves doesn't increase yield unless you have such a thick canopy that light isn't able to penetrate to mid/lower buds. If you have a properly trained canopy you do not need to remove leaves and removing leaves will not increase yield if the canopy is properly trained. Not trying to argue here but the purpose of removing fan leaves is usually for increased airflow/light penetration. Removing leaves to increase yield is a very counterproductive measure unless required.

In this case, the canopy is very well trained, so much so I would advise to leave the plants alone other than feeding them and maintaining a stable environment within the 1.0-1.4 VPD range.