I didn't buy the expensive book 3 a light or something like that.
I love these guys that just want to give something back to the community then slap a $300 price tag on defoliation techniques people have been using for years. I'm not saying free, but affordable would be a step in the right direction lol. I would have bought his book right now off of amazon for 29.99-49.99 (granted at 50ish I would have thought about it a bit harder) at 300 he can suck eggs lol
I hope it works out for you. I wouldn't buy the book either.
I'd be afraid of herming the shit out of my plants from stress and ruining everything. I think a lot of this equation is going to be genetics, but I know nothing of defoliation techniques to make an educated guess. I'd wager your entire grow needs to be dialed for it not to have bad effects.
There was a guy on here years ago, sadly no longer with us, but he was defoliating much like this years ago and people were constantly fucking with him for it. He was growing bats of bud. His name was Raiderman, if you can find his grows you will see what I'm talking about. Dude was a legit badass grower, everything he did was impressive as fuck. I miss the information he used to put down. People give folks like him a hard time, even when the proof is in the pudding so to speak dude had pics upon pics proving his techniques worked.
You get this figured out and you'll be happy
It works, there's something to it. But there's also a reason cash croppers aren't doing this, I'm sure the man hours in a commercial setting has a lot to do with it.