Buddernugs
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Their still stretching a bit 12 hrs ago they where under my thermometer now their touching it
Should I defoliate? Week 3
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Skewbong
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Yup day 21 flower. I monster crop the lower branches that won't make the cut...pun intended. keep the lower fans, but prune the lower nodes, pull top fans, keep top nodes...kind of hybrid lollipop. Bottom leaves are useless, but they've grown and they're just taking in some wasted light for the stem. It works for me. I pluck yellows as they age.
Remove the sun leaves at this point, the previous poster was absolutely correct. All they are doing is blocking light to the buds. Check out my current grow, it may help you make up your mind.
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Buddernugs
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All fans? Or just the giant ones? I swazzed last grow and pulled 3.75 zips off 2 plants don’t know if it helped or hurt my yields
All the sun leaves......the plant doesn't need them at this point. Here's a 34 minutes description about defoliation:
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It's worth a listen, it explains everything you need to know and why it works. Believe me when I tell you I'm a long term grower who always believed that the plant needs those leaves to be healthy and produce big buds. I'm here to tell you, that's just not the case. Doing it properly will increase your yields at least 30%, it will allow better air circulation around the plants, make it easier to get in between the plants to water and make trimming in the end way easier.
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It's worth a listen, it explains everything you need to know and why it works. Believe me when I tell you I'm a long term grower who always believed that the plant needs those leaves to be healthy and produce big buds. I'm here to tell you, that's just not the case. Doing it properly will increase your yields at least 30%, it will allow better air circulation around the plants, make it easier to get in between the plants to water and make trimming in the end way easier.
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f series
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f series
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Yes, I do the same too, leave the lowest fan leaves, like 2-4 depending on how and where the buds are forming.
I feel like those lower fans have saved me by buffering my nutrients/soil
Buddernugs
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Oh teach me great swami..... I’ll goin today and strip them down a bit more the issue is I might have to take a lot this strain is to fucking dense with foliage it’s ridiculus I hope my blue dreams aren’t this bad still don’t know how I’m going to train them might let them go natural and super crop run aways or 4 way lst them idk what do u think? Their 3 weeks old from seed what would u do? All pure coco
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HomegrownGenetics420
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Yes, defoliate large petiole fan leaves. Start from the bottom and really target the center of the plant.
Can also cut away small-diameter stems/nodes that wont reach the trellis/canopy
Can also cut away small-diameter stems/nodes that wont reach the trellis/canopy
Buddernugs
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Is so hard cutting those lower bud sight dude lol I feel like I’m loosing yeild doing it but I’ll grin and bare it
f series
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For me, since I defoliate near 21 days of flower, I can see what buds are lacking compared to others.
If any bud isn't as big as, or as developed as at least the middle buds, I cut them off.
Not Trimming, and lollipoping, is the difference between having 5 ounces in 5 five jars, or 4 ounces in 8 jars
I've had a 2*1 square foot canopy give me 2.5 ounces, and I've had 2 single colas give 2.5 ounces due to proper trimming
Dilago
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Interesting! How often do you defoliate?
f series
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I trim as often as I may need during veg.
When it comes to flowering, I do a mini defol 2 days before I "flip". Then, near 21 days in, I do my big ass trim job.
That's basically all I do for flowering
Buddernugs
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So I’ll remove everything with a purple stem and lollipop the lowers then remove everything covering a bud sight hopefully that will be the last time I need to defoliate in flower
Buddernugs
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Now what about the very top fan leaves on the top colas keep em?
Buddernugs
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These cut off?
