I dont man, I have a memory like a fuckin sieve these days. But I'm super stoked to see it working so well for you dude. It's one of those techniques that defies commonly held beliefs, but it fuckin works. I'm wishing I had pulled a few more now, probably still will, but it'll have to be over a stretch of time so i don't stress them too much.
Bringing up an old post I know, trying to get caught up on this thread. This is where I was at with my current grow. I did it much less than previously and found myself wanting to do more but not too much that theyd be stressed. But Im now wondering if even that was too much later in flower. Im running a clone of the white runts for my next run, just a single plant lol. Im going to do a full strip sometime around week 2, much like
@tobh did his. I wasnt sure if it would handle it as it was kinda spindly compared to the Bruce Banner, so I didnt do it nearly as much in early flower and instead just plucked the ones in the way to open things up, but I found myself wishing I had just done it earlier and left it stress free for the last 6-7 weeks. But now that Ive seen the plant grow, the stem and bud structure just seem perfect for a full strip, so thats the plan. The clone is already started and if all goes well Ill be harvesting around the first week of June :) We'll see how it goes.
Yeah im trying to learn something here as I think a pattern is emerging. I also felt the last one started ripening too early around week 6, and wasn't really sure why. I knew the second hard strip stressed them as I was finding the occasional immature seed. The main reason I didn't go as hard this time. But now seeing them thrive much more so than last round, makes me think that second hard strip could be more detrimental than I originally thought.
Again that first hard strip is a no brainer.. but the second one... jury is still out.
Im kinda seeing the same on my grow, but it could also be an underwatering event around week 4 or 5 that started early maturation for me. But when I do stripping I do it once, just after week 2 or when the bud starts to set in with the idea being to completely open up every bud site to full light. After that, nothing, no more defoliation, just a stress free coast through flower. Im still experimenting to see what works better, but after this run and my previous one as well as this thread, Im leaning back towards a single big strip. Ive seen people say "week 3" to do the strip, but when I look at examples and then my own grow, its actually the end of week 2, so day 14-16, not day 21, or at least thats what it appeared to me.
That being said, when I first started growing on my own I found a channel on youtube called TruCanna, it was called HiGrow Group at the time. The guy in those vids does rockwool and crop steering in like 30 light rooms. Dude grows some FAT freaking buds, like he's claiming 3lbs per light and from the vids I believe it. His video on feeding rockwool is what I was looking to strive for when I started, but have never gotten around to setting up irrigation lines. Well, in one of his vids he talks about how he doesnt do the full strip method in flower "anymore", but also says that doing so works quite well. He kinda explains that he now does things differently so that there is no need to strip in flower He does all his defoliation prior to the flip. This was going to be one of my next experiments, heavy defoliation prior to flower then nothing at all after that.
Here's the one on how he does his pre-flower strip:
Heres vid on feeding rockwool:
And another on nutes and environment:
I noticed you and
@tobh talking about a first and second strip. At what points are you referring to first and second? I usually do lollipopping a week or 2 prior to flip, is that the first strip youre referring to? Are you also doing a full strip of all/most fan leaves at that point as well? Sorry if this is addressed earlier in the thread, Ive not read all of it, theres a lot here lol.