lusidghost
Well-Known Member
While I agree that removing all of the leaves is a bit much, tons of people defoliate. Tons of people also train their plants in various ways. I probably wouldn't defoliate an outdoors plant. If a plant is making all of its food in the shade leaves, I would like to know how people are growing big colas, let alone making it to harvest.People are against it because it makes no sense and there is not good evidence supporting it. The leaves are where the plant makes its food. They grow horizontally and will angle themselves to catch the light while the buds grow straight up to shade the leaves as little as possible. Removing all the leaves to avoid shading the buds is just backwards. I'm sure you've had great results but showing your results are better than they would be if you had left the leaves on is not so easy. That's why people are justified in lumping it into the broscience category, not just because it's promoted by bros who grow.
Not having lime colored lower buds is a real thing. Move a single leave covering a bud and it will be lime colored. If you can't tell any difference aside from that aspect, then why not defoliate?