Thanks Duggs....I'd rather be a smart ass than a dumb ass. 
I saved a 6" piece just for you.
Did you call Sista?
In my experience the defol'ed plants are a little slower in flower. Saw this very recently with a friend who just harvested 32 FP plants (guess where he got seeds, lol). He defol'ed some and flat left others. The ones not touched did better in/by the end. His exact words were "I shouldn't have touched them, it slowed them down and they're smaller". Add a thick southern accent for proper effect.
That, and knowing the importance of each leaf (about 500,000 chloroplasts per sq/mm, each making ATP then using the ATP to create sugars and starches....thousands of times per second) is why I have not pulled a single leaf from my DDA's or younger FP cycles and don't intent to. I'll tuck them if they shade something I don't want shaded. Worst case maybe trim a finger tip off, or pluck just one finger.
Enjoy your experiment! They are all lovely
Happy.....Monday? LOL. Have a good day.
Good morning! 
Morning Cannafan and friends. With defoliating....or pruning like Doc and some of like to call it is a necessary evil to help our plants yield better and to offer a chance at better overall health. However , keep in mind ...when we strip leaves off , this lowers the Brix number considerably , as overall plant health drops. If you look at ALL my grows on here , you will see I don't like to strip them and like to feed the soil and roots via foliars as per Doc's instructions. Stressing the plants by doing the Defol thing is not a good practice if ya wanna harvest High Brix produce......just sayin gang....cheers!
Duggan, and good morning to you. I just measured and they are both the same height and overall width in bud branches. I trained down the bitty branches at the bottom of WC 2 this morning, so they both have that going on the same as well.
Let's do this without the purple of the LED lighting. Here's another go at the plants on the base:
And this is Purple Paralysis #1, you can see the buds now.
Main Cola on Super Cheese stinky gal....
The rest of the pics will have to wait until tomorrow.
I probably took a few too many leaves, but she is filling out again quickly just in a couple of days time. I love to experiment, they're my plants....I can do that.
I think Purple Paralysis #2 might come down this weekend, I don't like that I have found nanners on her twice, I really don't want to take a chance of missing one with pollen that gets where it doesn't belong in a draft...or on me.
Her trichomes are a lot of milky with some amber. She's missing a lot of heads off the trichomes too. Some of the trichomes have a really pretty purple color in the necks. Hard to capture on this phone camera though. We'll see how they look on Sunday morning.
The rest of them will be checked tomorrow morning in front of a window so I can see them better.
