Fan Leaves Removal During Flowering

[Dirtbag]

I have a friend who defoliates heavily at flip and again at the end of the main stretch after budset. He says its important to use a fast growing media like coco or rockwool, ideally with very high ppfd and Co2, and to cold temp stress them for a couple days after the second stripping. Just by 5 degrees celcius or so, doesnt have to be a lot, but a few days of cooler weather to slow metabolism while the plant recovers from the defol.

He does very well with hardly a handfull of leaves in the room

 

[smokedareefer]

I have a friend who defoliates heavily at flip and again at the end of the main stretch after budset. He says its important to use a fast growing media like coco or rockwool, ideally with very high ppfd and Co2, and to cold temp stress them for a couple days after the second stripping. Just by 5 degrees celcius or so, doesnt have to be a lot, but a few days of cooler weather to slow metabolism while the plant recovers from the defol.

He does very well with hardly a handfull of leaves in the room

Pretty much the practice i follow too. At the end of veg or the first couple days of flower and then again when i guess the strech is done day 21.

Im a first generation farmer in my past life, 320 acres of corn wheat soybeans and specialty beans. Kidney etc. To be a Google Warrior and compare defoliation between soybeans and cannabis is off the wall. Soybeans being a legume. As a farmer and Christian I'm well aware of how perfect things are in nature but now I've brought them in from nature and doing my thing.

To twist things around a bit, show me a scientific study where defoliation hurt the yield.

Like I've said before i do it mainly because it makes harvest so much easier. Trim bowl and all ..... beating the crap out of all those trichomes. (Ive got lots of trichomes and its all personal aka not for sale. Mostly I'm pressing rosin, and smoking very little flower of late.

Yield was wet that i quoted and that included the tote i weight it in, not quite the 10 lbs per plant you mention but still a good 2 lbs dry. ( my personal best.

I hit 1 lb per plant as my best at my last property . This is a new room to me 13x16x12 split ac, active fresh air intake. No co2.

This is maybe my 10 or 12 grow in the past 6 years so i would follow your friends advice over mine because as i said im flying mostly by the seat of my plants. And i like growing trees .

 

[Glassdub]

I have a friend who defoliates heavily at flip and again at the end of the main stretch after budset. He says its important to use a fast growing media like coco or rockwool, ideally with very high ppfd and Co2, and to cold temp stress them for a couple days after the second stripping. Just by 5 degrees celcius or so, doesnt have to be a lot, but a few days of cooler weather to slow metabolism while the plant recovers from the defol.

He does very well with hardly a handfull of leaves in the room

I just hate the way it looks, I guess I'm too nice.

 

[Edinburgh]

I defoliate slowly during flower, dont do it all at once it will shock your plants.

 

[Nukesrt]

Day 56 .. did some more heavy defo on both since i plan on cutting them down next week..

 

[GNick55]

What strain? Looks delicious

love your name

 

[Glassdub]

Been mostly letting the plants dictate 90% of these dropped of their own volition or with very little give, hardly used my clippers.

 

[Space82]

Hey brother, whatever makes you happy. My intentions are to help you.

Let's take what you said and break it down logically. Youre saying you removed the dan leaves because the bottoms are under developed and needed more light.

Ok

So now your bottoms are getting more light, but so what? Buds don't use light. Leaves use light to create buds. So your buds are getting hit with light that's being wasted because there's almost no fan leaves left to photosynthesize that light into energy to grow better buds.

An analogy is "I'm a runner, and I know if I weigh less I can run faster, so I'm going to remove one of my lungs to shed weight"

Fuck my life. Did i over do it here???
I just did this