Controversial Defoliation Increases Marijuana Yields

Red1966

Red1966

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blimey said:
If a leaf is not maintaining a plant's health, meaning it's out of nutrients, it sheds it. Why are you relying on your leaves to feed your plants again? I use the nutrients in my water for food and use my leaves for photosynthesis, call me crazy. Younger leaves produce photosynthesis more efficiently, this is science, I'll go link digging after some tea.
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I think the problem is you're trying to grow healthy plants and I'm trying to grow buds, just different approaches to growing.

Here's the first one I found, didn't feel like reading through others. http://bit.ly/1DK2jLO
It's inconclusive because there wasn't enough of a difference in age but they say their research of other studies indicates younger leaves are more photosynthetic.
Even if the rates were the same, which this study indicates isn't true, the study is comparing individual leaves, cutting off large fan leaves blocking other leaves allows more leaves and more surface area to be exposed granting more photosynthesis.

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Removing surface area increases surface area? If you had said that it induces the growth of more efficiant leaves, that I could believe, but the "surface area" idea doesn't make sense.
 
Doer

Doer

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Take all the leaves from the very beginning and after bloom switch take all the buds sites off, as they begin to form. (they won't, don't worry.)

Sell the 6 inch sticks as fake pencils.
 
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T.H.Cammo

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Okay; maybe, at least to some degree, what we are really talking about here is a matter of semantics. I think it's really about the use of the word "Defoliate". The word itself has come to mean killing and removing huge sections of Rainforest or other "at risk" land. My "Big, Fat" Webster's Dictionary makes defoliate sound pretty radical, "To strip or deprive a plant of it's leaves". That definition implies removeing all the leaves. Nobody's really suggesting that - but the idea still sounds bad.

What if the proceedure was called what it really is, "Selective Trimming". Doesn't that sound less radical? It appears that the people who use this method are a lot more conservative than I had thought. I must admit that since I have been opposed to this method since I first heard about it; I haven't really followed along and learned the "fine points". Selective trimming isn't something I would be interested in (except perhaps in "emergencies"), but I can see how others might want to try it - so be it!
 
nomofatum

nomofatum

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Selective Trimming is what I do, but it's far from what comes to mind when you say defoliate. Topping/FIM = "selective trimming" Trimming off the crap little branches on the bottom when they get totally shaded (before flower) is also "selective trimming".

But trimming off leaves uniformly across the plant is defoliating and is flat out stupid.
 
BigHulk

BigHulk

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Cobnobuler said:
...Well thats good. See, some people do this just to sit back and watch the sparks fly. I am glad that wouldnt be you...
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heh tnx ... i'm not like that ... i am all up for helping others so we can all benefit from what ever subject is in place ... i do " selective trimming" as T.H said on my scrog to expose more bud sites and it work wonders for me ... but if i am for a full strip... hell no .... but than again partial work's for me..
 
lilroach

lilroach

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BigHulk said:
heh tnx ... i'm not like that ... i am all up for helping others so we can all benefit from what ever subject is in place ... i do " selective trimming" as T.H said on my scrog to expose more bud sites and it work wonders for me ... but if i am for a full strip... hell no .... but than again partial work's for me..
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You DO know that leaves bring more light "energy" to the buds than the buds do under direct light.
 
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