When/How Much Defoliation?

[grandvapor]

I did take it to 4 ml before but i just recently got a new ppm meter and was blown away when i saw how high 2-3 ml per liter goes.

Could be my water has changed over time as i havent had it tested recently.?

But i just cant give my plants something that is fucking them up lol
This run i Have going definitely is not my best work ha ha

I was hoping for green leaves all the way through flower. I will achieve it someday, but it seems today is not that day.

On a positive note, I've never seen this much trich production this early in flower...

 

[grandvapor]

I'm going to add some extra magnesium. I think maybe 1 tablespoon of Epsom salt into 5 gallons.

 

[Cold$moke]

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I was hoping for green leaves all the way through flower. I will achieve it someday, but it seems today is not that day.

On a positive note, I've never seen this much trich production this early in flower...

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That is pretty close to what happend to my plants running advanced

Even though i have switched 2 of the plants still show this i dont know if its because there is still advanced stuck to the roots or what but it pisses me off too

 

[grandvapor]

That is pretty close to what happend to my plants running advanced

Even though i have switched 2 of the plants still show this i dont know if its because there is still advanced stuck to the roots or what but it pisses me off too

The purple/red stems I'm getting on the affected leaves lead me towards a Calcium or Mag deficiency. In my new 5 gallons I mixed earlier, I decided to check the PPM of each nutrient I added:

PPM guide for AN Trio @ 3/ml per liter:
(into 5 gallons)

Starting PPM of RO Water: 10

30 ml GH Calimagic: 550 PPM (+540)
1 TBSP Epsom Salt: 710 PPM (+160)
60 ml AN Micro: 1060 PPM (+350)
60 ml AN Grow: 1300 PPM (+240)
60 ml AN Bloom: 1480 PPM (+180)

That's all I use. I stopped using my Hydroguard since it's way past 6 months since opening, but I was using 2/ml gal of that previously.

Thread has gone way off topic, but this is fun too.

I'm pretty sure this is a mag deficiency.

 

[Cold$moke]

Yea i dunno i tired a foiliar of calmag and it didnt help
My plants that where using the advanced only 2 show deficiency and the other 2 not so much and they are in the same system so im chaulking it up to shit bagseed lol

 

[Gdub51]

The sun and an indoor grow should not be compared.

But us outdoor folks have to wade thru the indoor info for some stuff to glean out. Just not enough outdoor folks yet. Now that home growing is becoming legal in many states, I expect this situation to change. I'm So.Ca. so the amount of sun is only a problem when it's too much (too hot). I'm reluctant to trim as heavily as any of these indoor pics but I consider myself a long way from knowing just how much, where and when to cut. Last year my least trimmed plant not only was the top producer, but also the most potent. (It was LST'd into a spiral, my favorite technique). This year, a fungus has caused a great deal of leaf loss on the effected plants. A poor test though as the fungus will have had a permanent effect on the vitality of the plant. SOOO still guessing.

 

[Gdub51]

I consider defoliating the act of removing leaves... I cut branches off the bottom... Sure, there are leaves on the branches but the leaves are being removed only because they're attached to bud sites that, once removed, allow more energy to be focused on higher bud sites... I do remove damaged or diseased leaves but in general I consider the leaves as providing energy to the flowers so, in this case, leaving the leaves and cutting lower branches actually do the same thing, provide more energy to the bud... I consider defoliating as taking energy away from the flower... I regard the act of defoliating as counter-productive to getting the biggest bud... I don't take the word offensively at all.

With my HPS grows I lose a lot of leaves when I switch to flower... If I were to take all the fan leaves off, the plant would not be able to respond as well to spikes in energy demand... Once the fan leaves are gone, the sugar leaves become the next primary source in order to cover increased energy demands of the bud... I'm sure outdoor and LED grows have different considerations.

Indeed, I get all the sun that I need from dawn to dusk exposure hill top setting. I do remove lower inner leaves that get little light, weak or late secondary branch-lets and of course dead or dying leaves (now waiting for dying leaves to wilt as the advice that as long as the leaf is mostly green, its still producing chlorophyll).

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

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