This is your plant

[kyndone]

THIS IS YOUR PLANT.

THIS IS YOUR PLANT ON DRUGS.

 

[socialist]

Damn you went crazy on her! Did you defoliate through out veg as well?

 

[Homebrewer]

Isn't mother nature such a b*tch for putting all those useless leaves in the way .

 

[Midnight]

Well, now I know where Crush went. Deeeeeeeeefooooooolllllllllleeeeeeaaaaaaattttteeee!

 

[paulo73]

Give her another week, proper feeding and plenty of light and she will be back stronger
That was nasty!

 

[auto guerilla]

It's wierd how cameras do that if you put em near anything high voltage, even a tv.

 

[green thumbs]

Poor plant looks so sad in the 2nd picture.

 

[bigghead]

very nice, in a few days she will be amazing. defole smokes.

 

[kyndone]

yes, it only took about 4 days, and she is back in the shade again, lol., i have done this to all my girls, and they seem to love it after a few days, but, they do look sad for a bit., im trying to get her to grow a little bit more so i can go to 12/12.

 

[kyndone]

and ya, A.G., it is pretty wierd how the shutters show up in the H.P.S., light, kindof anoying, but i took some pics of a different tree i had with a flash on in the dark a few times, and the girl got pissed off and hermed on me, so i dont do any more pics in the dark.

 

[il19z8rn4li1]

Defoliation all the way :-D

the only way I grow :-D Proven to produce more per plant. I do it to my
outdoor plants as well.

Key is doing this throughout the plants life.. not just flower or end of veg...

nice work, shes going to explode :-D

 

[MrQwerty]

I keep a pair of sunglasses in my flower room and I realized that if I take the sunglasses and put them in front of the camera lense, it takes the shutter effect away. Im still a nube-boob.. So you basically rape most of the leaves off throughout the grow & you get a higher yield? like pruning?

 

[il19z8rn4li1]

I keep a pair of sunglasses in my flower room and I realized that if I take the sunglasses and put them in front of the camera lense, it takes the shutter effect away. Im still a nube-boob.. So you basically rape most of the leaves off throughout the grow & you get a higher yield? like pruning?

Id hate to do this to you.. but here is the thread regarding
this.

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=174163


this is a HUGE thread... but to make long thread short.

You only do it a few times during VEG. depending how long you
veg depends how many times youll defoliate.

You dont do it continuously. youll allow the leaves to grow back, and by the time they grow back, you just pull them off again.

Its sometimes a weekly thing if you got really healthy plants
and a dialed in environment.
Also i find outdoor grows, youll find yourself REALLY pulling over the branches SUPER
early, as early as you can start moving the branches away from each other.

 

[excalibud7]

i defoil all from day one if i see a little budsite crying for light

and they love it

 

[Homebrewer]

i defoil all from day one if i see a little budsite crying for light

and they love it

Why on earth would you defoliate a plant that is 12 inches tall? I have plants that are 40 inches tall whose lower buds are 5 feet away from my 600watt HPS and those lower buds are bigger than your top buds. I wish you better understood what you are doing.

 

[excalibud7]

Why on earth would you defoliate a plant that is 12 inches tall? I have plants that are 40 inches tall whose lower buds are 5 feet away from my 600watt HPS and those lower buds are bigger than your top buds. I wish you better understood what you are doing.

well i have a meazly 400 watter and 2 68watt cfls i laid my homebox tent on the ground and got more space less hieght and you can defoil whenever you want to as you are the grower....ive grown monsters and midgets ...just because i dont post alot dont mean i havnt read damn near every post on this joint so i know what im talking about..and my plants are only day 40 flower as we speak and that plant is 2.5 feet wide with bud head to toe still got 40 days i chop at 80 allday long......ps dont let the phone pics fool you

 

[kyndone]

i understand, ive done thise several times, and it works good every time, like excalibud said, its for light, i trim everything that is blocking the light, i want the light to reach the bottom, and yes, i do this a few times throughout veg., and usually only once durring flower, (depending), i feel that when you do this, it stresses the plant out, so i would not cut leaves continuously, but all at once, then let her heal, and grow some more, then do it again. i have done the all natural plant, and i end up tweeking out on a ton of little tiny nugs at the bottom, that i end up trimming, so i started doing this so the flowers on the bottom would be bigger,

 

[kyndone]

and thank you all for the pics, and the write backs, they are all great, i just flipped em, after they shot back from the mad trimmer action, and i am also using a 400 w hps, with a drip system in rockwool,this will be my 5th grow, but on my next one i think i will upgrade to at least a 600, and i will get some more pics when they are calmed down from all the recent activity, and start blooming, and thanks again, i saw some beautiful grows in here, you guys are awesome.

 

[Homebrewer]

i understand, ive done thise several times, and it works good every time, like excalibud said, its for light, i trim everything that is blocking the light, i want the light to reach the bottom, and yes, i do this a few times throughout veg., and usually only once durring flower, (depending), i feel that when you do this,it stresses the plant out, so i would not cut leaves continuously, but all at once, then let her heal, and grow some more, then do it again. i have done the all natural plant, and i end up tweeking out on a ton of little tiny nugs at the bottom, that i end up trimming, so i started doing this so the flowers on the bottom would be bigger,

Instead of stressing the plant by removing the items that put buds there to begin with, why not just do a better job pruning your lower branches and training/topping/super-cropping your main growth shoots to increase the size of your canopy? Unlike outdoor growing, our light source is usually stationary and coming from above. The more growth shoots you have at the canopy, the better your yields, assuming you've maintained leaf health.

This defoliation 'technique' is a really poor way to compensate for a skimpy canopy.

 

[kyndone]

wow., this is really bumming me out, i cant get anymore pics up on here.