No offense homie, just trying to help out. Most of those buds up in the cannopy dont look much thicker that the stems and there are a lot of bare spots. When it dries it shrivels a lot.
I think you could have gotten the same yield, if not more, but certainly bigger buds, if you removed those skinny secondaries instead of trying to get them more light by removing all the leaf from the bigger branches.
The skinny stems arent gonna grow fat colas no matter what.
Anything that isnt gonna be part of the cola I remove and dont need to remove much leaf at all. I just want big buds, no popcorn.
These are just starting to swell, but they have almost all the leaves. I remove them a few at time as they grow into eachother and other buds. The stems are as fat as the stakes. Thats what makes the buds fat.
If the plant isnt drinking as much for a few days in flower its either gonna take longer, produce less, or both.
I use coco so that I can get faster wet/dry cycles so that my plants uptake more and produce more.
In the original defoliation thread the dude was growing squat plants in a little chamber. Defoliation has its place.
I think you could have gotten the same yield, if not more, but certainly bigger buds, if you removed those skinny secondaries instead of trying to get them more light by removing all the leaf from the bigger branches.
The skinny stems arent gonna grow fat colas no matter what.
Anything that isnt gonna be part of the cola I remove and dont need to remove much leaf at all. I just want big buds, no popcorn.
These are just starting to swell, but they have almost all the leaves. I remove them a few at time as they grow into eachother and other buds. The stems are as fat as the stakes. Thats what makes the buds fat.
If the plant isnt drinking as much for a few days in flower its either gonna take longer, produce less, or both.
I use coco so that I can get faster wet/dry cycles so that my plants uptake more and produce more.
In the original defoliation thread the dude was growing squat plants in a little chamber. Defoliation has its place.