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Bulldog916
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I've read about and done a few grows with defoliation indoors and those grows turned out well for me. When I hear defoliation mentioned in the same sentence as outdoor grow, most people shy away. They say the fan leaves are a "food source" for your plants during flower. I'm seeing it differently. The fans during veg are more for building stem structure than being food for budding phase. After the bud phase has entered its final weeks, I see the need to remove almost any fan leaf without sugar on it. You want your sugar leaves to move the most light energy more directly to the flowers themselves rather than more leaf weight. Maybe defoliating veg phase fan leaves completely after sugar leaves develop will force more resources directly to the buds, like water and sunlight. The plant itself will be cutting all resources to the fans after a time anyway. They aren't a food source, just old growth. Like spent solar panels.