Just meant people who had experience defoliating autoflowers man appreciate the troll tho. Gotta love people who love to hear and see themselves talk for no apparent reason!
I'm running it in a DWC bucket and it is thriving. What worried me is how dense the inside is for later on in flower I've heard a lot of.people.that have mold.issues. Again this is my first grow I had to move a bunch of plants out of my 9x5x6 tent I have 25 total all beauties just very little defoliating done so far so with this big bush I was hoping for some help. Looks like it's gonna have some huge dense buds though!! Here is one a little further into bloom and my overgrown situation. I take some out during the day the other side of the tent is full too I wish I woulda scratched the tent just used the room
Anyone who has ever defoliated an autos opinion means something to me brother
See like the small bud sites like almost feathery inside the plant in the first pic I should basically whack them cause those budsites will be so small and it will boost the main bud sites like the one in the second pic right? ???
The airflow is where I worry as you can see it's pretty cluttered in there. What about what are now light bud sites smaller branches coming off of main branches with larger flowers should I let them bloom or chop them?
I have defoliated and here's my take: some plants like it (mostly photos) and some hate it. Defol seems to work well when you are growing a familiar strain that you know can take the stress and still thrive. All strains have their own traits though. Some autos can probably take it...but a lot of others will stunt. In my experience the only trimming worth doing to an auto is lollipop. With most auto strains defol doesn't get you anything. Keep in mind also that you want the light to hit the leaves so that the leaves can feed the bud. Buds don't photosynthesise like leaves do. Leaves are also like the food pantry for the bud. Chop the leaves and you are depriving the bud of food. Again...not an argument against defol....but an argument against using it on a plant that may or may not like it. For airflow: Lollipop yes. Defol no.
This plant here is my main concern it has 10-12 main Bud sites and if you can see all this dense light green foliage inside some of that leads to Bud sides too so that's the stuff that I'm curious about should I lollipop that to all the main Bud sites you're saying
Trim out all the lower "peach fuzz" as it's never going to be anything worthwhile. I found this pic on the web. It's a classic lollipop. Leave the bigger fan leaves that are slightly above that lower zone.
Man!! I really hope I can get my plants to that point someday. I’m only on my 3rd grow ever & still haven’t gotten the balls yet to try LST for real and certainly not lollipopping but I hope I’ll get there someday. Your plant looks like perfection man! Just fat colas and all exactly the same. So impressive!
