defoliate?

Here I have a decent outdoor plant. It's been a struggle to get this far, with decent results in the vegetation stage. Now looking into flower, before that wondering if I should at least trim some lower sites to boost planet energy. I've already top successfully twice. Certainly looking to make...

RQS royal gorilla auto 5th week flower plants leaves are perking upward and covering buds, leaf stems are super long but Plant is not that big( some leaf stems are longer than stems). Tried tucking leaves but next day they were perked up. Tried cutting some leaves but since its auto...

I have a 5x5 tent with a 650 scorpion Diablo. I took me a while to figure out how to go from germination to seedling. Had to start over on a couple of the girls as you can see they are a couple weeks behind their older sisters. Big ones are 3 weeks old and babies are 1 week. I topped the older...

My two autos have grown crazy big lately and want to see if you would do anything like defoliate or just leave them be? Cheers