Gom3z
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I’d love to see some fotos of heavily defoliated plants, big fan leaves removed, with massive, fist sized buds... to date, I have not seen anything that made me thing “WOW!!’”...
Take away all knowledge of growing plants... everything I’ve learned over the years, and still wouldn’t defoliate around my canopy. Lollipop for sure, but leave those food making fanleaf weapons alone. Not only does one deny that section/node the food it needs to grow to it’s potentially, you are harming/stressing the plant, thus, further reducing yield.
I love this debate, but don’t think it’s the heavy defoliators on one side (0) and the never defoliators (10) on the other. I think we are all mostly in the middle of the scale, I’m about a 7, as I occasionally removed a fan leaf when I don’t like the look of it, for whatever reason. But, I never care about buds being covered by big fan leaves, as long as the bud’s fanleaf has good light, as mentioned, noooooo problem.
Having to defoliate, to me, mostly is just an indicator that something is wrong in the environment or how one has grown their plant. Such as high humidity, bad airflow, too many plants etc
Thoughts?
Take away all knowledge of growing plants... everything I’ve learned over the years, and still wouldn’t defoliate around my canopy. Lollipop for sure, but leave those food making fanleaf weapons alone. Not only does one deny that section/node the food it needs to grow to it’s potentially, you are harming/stressing the plant, thus, further reducing yield.
I love this debate, but don’t think it’s the heavy defoliators on one side (0) and the never defoliators (10) on the other. I think we are all mostly in the middle of the scale, I’m about a 7, as I occasionally removed a fan leaf when I don’t like the look of it, for whatever reason. But, I never care about buds being covered by big fan leaves, as long as the bud’s fanleaf has good light, as mentioned, noooooo problem.
Having to defoliate, to me, mostly is just an indicator that something is wrong in the environment or how one has grown their plant. Such as high humidity, bad airflow, too many plants etc
Thoughts?
