Defoliate or not to defoliate
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greenlikemoney
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ugh..........
RedCarpetMatches
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My defoliation experiment didn't go well. Looked like pussy willows.
lilroach
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LOL....yet another defoliating thread. I like Redcarpetmatches comment about pussy willows....as I look at other's grows that have yanked leaves off their plants and that's what they look like. I wonder if the poster that asked looked at someone's picture of a plant that was trimmed just before chopping.
RedCarpetMatches
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Well if you like it then click on like lol.
hyroot
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starting this thread opened a portal for the demon noobies...
defoliation = stunted growth , smaller yield, airy buds..
plenty of lush green leaves = big happy yield.
only pull leaves that are damaged
Any one who argues this is wrong and an idiot and needs to take botany and horticulture classes..
defoliation = stunted growth , smaller yield, airy buds..
plenty of lush green leaves = big happy yield.
only pull leaves that are damaged
Any one who argues this is wrong and an idiot and needs to take botany and horticulture classes..
skunkd0c
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These kind of absolute statements are not helpful, pretty much invalid
kind of thing i would expect from a noobie that has just finished reading jorges bible or another Uncleben stooge
you should re-phrase them i think it is possible to save them with a few if's and maybe's in the right places
stick to those classes!
tekdc911
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st0wandgrow
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It's an absolute statement, but mostly accurate. Those leaves facilitate an important function in a plant. If you don't believe that then take a clone, and strip all of the leaves from it and continue doing so for it's entire life cycle. I'd guess that the results would be less than spectacular. I suppose at a certain point once the flowers have formed you'd be fine removing some leaves. I'd never advocate stripping a plant of all of it's leaves, though. That flies in the face of science.
st0wandgrow
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There are plenty of leaves on that plant in pic 1. OP mentioned completely stripping the plant of all of it's leaves.
hyroot
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4 weeks later they look horrible
racerboy71
bud bootlegger
that's a bit silly imo.. the function of the leaves if to hang out in the sun, (lights) and collect light energy and convert it into sugar via photosynthesis..
naturally a budding plant will have sugar leaves, but which would be more efficient at making more food, a 20 acre plot of land, the fan leaves, or a 2 acre plot of land, the sugar leaves??
of course the bigger the leaf is, the more sugars and food it makes for the plants..
