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I'd go hard in defoliating now and again in 22 days then your good. I went from this
To this
To this
Fans work great for airflow. Leaves don't stop it.You defoliate for 2 reasons to get branches into light and to improve airflow, you could thin it out a bit if you have problems with light penetration or the inside leaves are sweating or blotchy but i subscribe to the theory if it aint broke dont try and fix it.
Fans work great for airflow. Leaves don't stop it.
I blast mine with fans. If it's too bad I'll pull a leaf now and then. But I don't strip the plants.Leaves that are "pancaked" sit there sweating on each other, fans don't always remedy that. But reaching in and pulling a couple leaves does.
I blast mine with fans. If it's too bad I'll pull a leaf now and then. But I don't strip the plants.
I blast mine with fans. If it's too bad I'll pull a leaf now and then. But I don't strip the plants.
Bout as wide as I want it,
I stopped defoliating all together. Only time I remove a leaf is when it's dying due to error. If they are bunching up I just finger them till air can flow through. Seems it just keeps getting wider and wider allowing for more air flow. Seems as if the plant will do what we do. I'm just gonna let it create its own structure.
Given I will top once and low stress slightly so that all 3 fit. That auto in the middle is gonna get its lights flipped with the others in 2 weeks. Hopefully that speeds up its budding.. It's just wanting to grow massive fan leafs atm lol.
I had some light leak causing algie growth and root rot. Fixed it and should be fine now.
Following a mix of yours and aquas advice. So far so good.
Man you saying mine looks good lol, that green though is beautiful. Such perfection in those fan leafs. I have a hydro post on my grow. https://www.thcfarmer.com/threads/white-widow-gelat-og-and-king-tut.125418/page-2#post-2610180@Cashmeh
The plant in the top pic is a beauty. Did it branch like that by itself? Looks to me like it's gonna be nice.
Defoliating seems to be a topic that gets people riled up. My first plant I let it grow like it wanted, I wasn't happy with it. Trying something different this time.
Here are mine at day 21 (I read my calendar wrong a few days ago) of flowering. They branched like crazy in veg. I took a ton of tops and fan leaves off because I'm trying heavy defoliating this time. We'll see how it goes. I think they look great for 21 days.
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the way you are approaching it, no matter the results, you wont have any clue if defoliating did a blasted thing, could be all the stuff you fiddled with. it wont help you, or anyone really. you will be like the ball player who actually believes his cap or socks make him win. it happened once, so must be so!
Here are most of my plants day after flip before heavy defoliation.
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These are my plants day after flipping to flower when i did an extreme defoliation leaving only the top 2 or 3 nodes per branch.
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Here are the same plants today 3 weeks later before another defoliation.
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And again another Defoliation on day 21 of the same plants. Trying to find a keeper from the 3 gelato seeds i popped and only have 1 of my wedding cake going in this run.
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Heres my before- after
How old from sprout were the plants at flip?Here are most of my plants day after flip before heavy defoliation.
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These are my plants day after flipping to flower when i did an extreme defoliation leaving only the top 2 or 3 nodes per branch.
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Here are the same plants today 3 weeks later before another defoliation.
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And again another Defoliation on day 21 of the same plants. Trying to find a keeper from the 3 gelato seeds i popped and only have 1 of my wedding cake going in this run.
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