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To avoid any confusion, and lord knows I was confused- I started flowering yesterday and what I was referring to was the defoliation, which I planned on doing in 1 week. That looks like it will need to be done earlier than planned.
You normally do a first week defo?To avoid any confusion, and lord knows I was confused- I started flowering yesterday and what I was referring to was the defoliation, which I planned on doing in 1 week. That looks like it will need to be done earlier than planned.
I guess the question is if you amputate part of a leaf will the rest continue to function or will the plant amputate it... I think for the most part it will continue but then there is likely a bigger risk of infection as you have more exposed damage than a small stem.Starting to think about defoliation more and more now......... some of leaves are so damn big. Instead of removing the entire leaf, I'm thinking about just removing the part of the leaf that's blocking growing shoots underneath. What do you think and has anyone done this in the past? This has to be less stressful on the plants AND it's a way to save more leaf material as sugar producers.......just thinking it all over.
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I think on the idicas pruning as you go is just kinda needed and if done here and there doesn't affect the plant at all stress wise. Biggest oldest leaves showing less photosynthesis (any signs of not being 100%), any leaves that are stacking or sitting on others, any leafs I can't just push out of the way of a growing tip are what I ha e mostly done as maintenance in flower. If it ain't pulling its weight for the plant.... its gone a little at a timeGood point......I’ve done things like this on a limited basis in the past and no issues came from it but it’s a new room, new lights, new everything basically. The biggest leaves have to go, that’s a given. But as you can see, these have a classic indica appearance and although there’s not a ton of leaves, what’s there are large.
I also used to trim clones back regularly and they did just fine as I used to have a 100% Survivor rate when I bothered with them.
If you remember, I was doing full defoliations every week with the Gasm...... the leaves were growing like crazy for most of the grow. I thought it may have been the co2, but it could well just be the strain. Don't be concerned about removing a lot of stuff, it will grow back. Even Rasta Jeff was hitting his plants almost weekly if you refer back to the podcast
Dam they are short and bushy. Are you running your lights at full power for veg or do you have them dimmed??Finally getting some stretch out of some of the plants........I think I can flower a bit earlier than planned, instead of waiting til 5 weeks thru veg on Friday. I'l also probably move all the taller plants to one side and put the shorter plants to the other side, which will let me move the LED's to an optimum height. These will also need a defoliation sooner rather than later, as there's some big ass leaves blocking tons underneath.
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