At this point i can only say extreme defoliation doesn’t seem to help with growth, but since the control started to flower it probably stretched a bit more and its metabolism is faster than the others. Thats why i call it a bust because the main objective of the experiment was to see if the light defoliation helps with plant growth but now my control is flowering.
So at this point i can only say extreme defoliation doesn’t help, light defoliation is not counter productive at least, as you can see. I will revisit this issue in the future but for now i must prune the flowering control so it doesn’t stretch into the light. Man its just crazy, 16/8 and its flowering.