HH, you make some great points. Folks need to heed you.
I keep hearing about the need to remove leaves because some of you
think you're cramming plants tightly together. NO ONE crams plants together like I do, and I have NEVER removed anything. I don't know what some of you guys are doing but I'm almost inclined your feelings are over-riding good judgement, IF, you can find good judgement with most of the "advise" at RIU. I'll post this link one more time to show you what CRAMMED plants is really all about. Within weeks, my plants are 'huge' by forum standards. Look at Week 4 - some are already 27" tall.
https://www.rollitup.org/advanced-marijuana-cultivation/9114-spin-out-chemical-root-pruning.html
Do these looked spaced apart to you? The leaves of one plant is under, through and around the leaves of its sistas:
Secondary harvests, one is Thai-tanic nugs drying the other with a Jack Herer with nugs still on the plant. The JH is quite tight and dense. Why? Because the plants' resources which includes carbos, enzymes, amino acids, proteins, and hormones are NOW focused, directed, to what's left the plant. This is called apical dominance. Now to you New Age World Order leaf pluckers, you're shit of of luck. You have to have leaves at the lower levels to pull this off. The fat colas were cut off at the point where just below them they were airy.
I can get up to 1 oz. of dried bud from a plant doing a secondary harvest this way.
Uncle Ben