Darth Vapour
Well-Known Member
takng a few off isn't defoiling and really nothing going to happen but strip the bitch and wait for a disaster to happen is a guarntee i suggest every strip there bitches cause yields will be 70 percent more
I would just call what I do pruning. I take off a couple bags full of leaves. its noticeable but its not to wear they are naked I still have a full canopyDefoliation is a bitch to get right.
Easy to sizzle fan tips if you uptake more then the foliage can handle (too much nutes)
Easy to turn a female into a hermaphrodite (too much stress for certain strains especially sativas)
Easy to light burn/bleach your foliage and buds if they still stretch too far(sometimes they still stretch after defol and if defoliation starts too early in flower)
You really gotta have everything in check, and even then my yield didnt jump so its all still only "experimental" for me.
Do you prune in flower?I would just call what I do pruning. I take off a couple bags full of leaves. its noticeable but its not to wear they are naked I still have a full canopy
Plant looks good, let us know what the yield is, thanks.View attachment 3525738 I have pulled off loads of leaves all through the flower stage as it wasn't trained well and was covered in too many leaves most bud sites would of been without light if I hadn't removed them first picture is the start of 12/12 second picture is about 4 weeks later
Yup. Too much nutrient uptake not enough foliage lol! I've done that a few times as im a sucker for heavily amended soils.I have pruned my sativa during flower and well what can I say I have had my first real deal problem of nute burn now weather that was down to the amount of leaves I've chopped off or the high dosage of nutes I'm not sure... do indica's respond better to pruning/defoliation?
I didn't de foi this plant before and after pics topped once and cropped 2 timesI defoliated this plant in veg.
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It grew back with a vengeance! Turned out to be male. View attachment 3526002View attachment 3526004
I "lillipoped" the bagseeds I have, the one pictured above was a bagseed, and I'm not touching my other strains except for minimal removal of the very bottom leaves and dead or dying leaves to see the difference in production. Not a full proof experiment but I'll still get an idea.
Nice plants dude but you DID NOT defoliate....lolI should have taken pictures before to share, but I didnt... I cut nearly 50oz of leaves off of 2 plants I have in veg on Wednesday evening, which was a day after I posted this thread. As of today, you would never know I took a darn thing off. There are new shoots all over the place where there were none before. Iam now wishing I had done a SCROG as I am running out of space width wise. These things started life bushy and are just getting bushier. These are at the end of 6 weeks of veg now and will go another 2 weeks at least before I flip them.
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True, I did not defoliate in the typical meaning.. I think the general consensus, that I was getting from the replies to the post, led me to believe that a partial and or selective trimming would be better, at least for a newbie grower like me. There are others that prefer to do a more aggressive defoliation, which I may try on my next round since I will have a few more plants at that time. Maybe I need to change the tiltle..lol.... But overall I am getting great insight on some different practices from a lot of members. I guess the main reason for the thread was to help me figure out if removing leaves would help or hurt, I can now say that removing some leaves does not seem to hurt the plant, but has helped. Although the harvest will be the real test. I do appreciate ALL of these responses as it helps me to understand how to grow better plants.Nice plants dude but you DID NOT defoliate....lol
Is that the Larfiest plant you ever saw, tiny little Colas, thanks for the post, we now know what a plant looks like when it hasn't been taken care of.So i grew this plant here, and sure, it looks big, but everything on the inside of the plant was total larf. Not even big enough to keep. The outside ends were pretty good and she yielded quite a bit. But next time i try and grow the same strain outside i will be taking the inside and removing it. I am not dealing with that larf, and trimming, for nothing. View attachment 3525375
Why would you waste an entire run just to see what a particular genetic looks like, is it your first plant ever? If you have done any serious growing you would already know what the plant structure is because you would recognize it from breeder pictures and info, unless you grow bag seed which would not surprise me one iota.Since most of us take clones and keep our genetics going i always recommend running the plant through once untouched. Then like five days or so before you chop it get right in there and see what you could have done without...next time cut it all out. I have a huckleberry kush from dynasty seeds that the whole damn plant is useable. But that jillybean i posted just isnt the same unfortunately, so it takes a bit more work.