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Should of specified better...I lollipop and pull all nodes except the very top bud sites 3 to 4 days prior to flipping to flower. I only leave 3 fan leaves on each branch at thos time...I don't pull all fan leaves to the top. Any fan leaves that have grown facing the interior of the plant I trim automatically.heh…. You don’t want all the larf, yet, are removing leaves to stop larf from being light blocked?
And most of the leaves you are removing are leaves from upper tops… It’s self defeating.
Dude, I will come to your rescue. LEAVES ARE THE ONLY PLANT FACTORY FOR PHOTOSYNTHES. - ONLY SROUCE OF ENERGY AND LIFE OF THE PLANT. Roots absorb food (N,P,K, minor, and trace elements) necessary for plant growth. The xylem sends this food from the roots to the leaves. The leaves absorb the sun's rays and convert everything to sugars, starch, proteins, ect. The phloem distributes this food to where it is needed in the plant. It automatically prioritizes where its needed (new growth, flowering, ect.) lol. Leaves at the bottom are naturally defoliated if they are not receiving light. In other words, Leaves that don't carry their weight are slowly drained of nutrients and die off.I got the room I'm only growing 5 autoflowering in a 4x4x6 tent using organic soil.
Because they are small plants I'm thinking if I get rid of leaves the energy will go to the branches and multiply basically same method as topping 1 cola turns into 2.
What I'm wondering is do the leaves serve any other purpose then storing water because I can provide the water..
Not there yet but trying to get my technique dialed in before they grow..lol
Man.. I always miss the damn auto in there...Topping? Auto-flowering plants?
Ok, so, leaves take light energy, and use it to convert the nutrients you give them into food. So, think of it like this, the more leaves you take off the plant, the more you are starving them.
So, after you strip all the fan leaves off, you give them the same amount of nutrients, expecting them to be able to convert the nutes into food, but, it can't do that as efficiently, because why?
You just stripped off all the fan leaves.
You can get away with pulling off leaves to open up air and get rid of some of the shading of lower buds, without starving them, but, eventually pulling off to many leaves leads to a point of diminishing returns.
I'm in the don't need to defoliate unless its overcrowded camp. So far I only saw one guy do a side by side comparison with clones in hydro.I like this explanation...
Thanks
Man.. I always miss the damn auto in there...
Yeah I wouldn't touch an auto at all.
Lol so you would say this is going too far?
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Indeed they did. Infact they're almost finished!I've done that to plants.. I always think I just killed them. LOL! Those will come back nice though.
Holy crap... You're doing that JUST before flip????To show you an example of just how fast they rebound, the first pic is Nov 29th, a few days before flip.View attachment 1212510
Second pic is Dec 7th, a few days after flip.View attachment 1212511
They were clones that were a little over 3 weeks in veg when I stripped them in the first pic. Probably closer to 4 weeks old from when they actually popped roots. And yeah the right time to do a full strip like that is about 3 days before you flip them into flower. It gives them a couple long days to recover before you stress them again by reducing the amount of light they recieve in a day.Holy crap... You're doing that JUST before flip????
How old were they when you stripped them in the first picture?
They were clones that were a little over 3 weeks in veg when I stripped them in the first pic. Probably closer to 4 weeks old from when they actually popped roots. And yeah the right time to do a full strip like that is about 3 days before you flip them into flower. It gives them a couple long days to recover before you stress them again by reducing the amount of light they recieve in a day.
I'll also strip them again somewhere in the 14-21 day range when it looks like the buds are set and stretch is slowing down. But this strip can be heavy or rather selective. In this grow I went selective on the second strip since the Cake in this strain has a tendency to herm if stressed too much.
By doing this, you only keep the nodes and budsites that develop during the first few weeks of the stretch phase of flower. Which means your developing canopy is all up top and doesn't need to be pruned or molested much at all in flower. Which in turn reduces stress in flower. Also, by stripping just before stretch allows you to really take advantage of the increased growth rate you get in stretch to rebuild the plant.
Nothing worse than getting 3 weeks into flower and realizing you've grown a rats nest that needs to be heavily cleaned up and pruned, leaves plucked etc. Doing that mid flower can surely stall them out.
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