
lenhug
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No worries at all and thanks for the helpful and detailed information. 

I’m telling you man, this is my theory anyways, these folks who claim to do mass defoliation to drive bud development, are just hiding their mistakes and toxicities or deficiencies so they can claim a practice and still justify posting their plants….light handed defol if any is the way to go. I agree @GmixReading more that was a older plant not what you have going now
The fan leaves feed the plant and create a buffer.
Defoliation ( taking the leaves of ) mainly came about when you had bushy plants to allow more air flow.
Nowadays a lot of folks do it willy nilly with no rhyme nor reason.
Taking a few of isn’t a biggie but striping the entire plant of every fan leaf isn’t really a good idea.
It’s definitely not lst that’s for sure it’s more high stress training than low stress.
99% of the time there’s not much real need for it. Just tuck them under
It’s used to be rule number one if your going to defoliate ( take fan leaves of ) only do 10% at a time as it’s very stressful to the plant.
Now some will take them all off in one go stress the hell out the plant then and cliam it helps get more bud back without any real proof
It’s like a bad habit.
It’s a practice that’s spun out of control imo