Epic 4x4 Flowering Smackdown : 96 Elites vs 288s

Or_Gro said:
Harvested the sisters today, nice sized, hard, sticky buds. Three of the four strains, trimmed wet, weigh over 300g, so s/b around a qp per 4-gal bucket, under 3 96s w/o supplementation - simlar per bucket weight as the mothers.

Green Crack
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Original Glue (GG4)
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Trainwreck
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Jack Herer
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The Jack Herer has been a disappointment, maybe just this particular pheno, mother and daughters both have relatively smaller buds. We’ll see if training and more intensive mgt of the smackdown plants makes a difference.

I’ll post dry wts...
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Those buds look delicious.!
 
DankTankerous said:
Do you just take off the big fan leaves?
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I take the fan leaf that a lateral comes from (basal fan), at each postion with a lateral, except for 2-3 pairs at tips. I repeat this with every defol, as new nodes on the mains/laterals form new basal fans.

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imo, after providing sufficient energy to push its lateral out of the axillary bud, the primary purpose of the basal fan leaf is storage, something that is unnecessary in a healthy appropriately nuted plant with sufficient fans at tips (in dwc, at least), so i remove it, to open to airflow/light and redirect energy to tips/buds.

Seems under these white leds, it takes 3 heavy defols (before 12:12, when pistil balls form, 1-2 wks later)...for my tastes...
 
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Or_Gro said:
I take the fan leaf that a lateral comes from (basal fan), at each postion with a lateral, except for 2-3 pairs at tips. I repeat this with every defol, as new nodes on the mains/laterals form new basal fans.

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imo, after providing sufficient energy to push its lateral out of the axillary bud, the primary purpose of the basal fan leaf is storage, something that is unnecessary in a healthy appropriately nuted plant with sufficient fans at tips (in dwc, at least), so i remove it, to open to airflow/light and redirect energy to tips/buds.

Seems under these white leds, it takes 3 heavy defols (before 12:12, when pistil balls form, 1-2 wks later)...for my tastes...
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My story..,and i’m stickin w it.....
 
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