very nice, if your interested in the best defoliation method then check out bassmans journal, let me see if i can find the link, he strips his in veg then strips them twice in flower, he gets huge monster buds and has got defol method perfected
ok found his journals, he is by far the best at the defol method, he strips his plants right back and the growth that he gets after is pretty shocking, so check out both these links and you will see exactly what i mean, feel free to ask him questions as he is always happy to help and offer advice, ive followed his journal for a while now and it still amazes me how well his plants do, some growers say its best to not remove any leaves as their like factories, well outdoors plants lose leaves all the time due to insects and animals and disease, indoors they dont suffer the same problems, plus outdoors the plant dont get constant light, some days its cloudy and as the sun moves across the sky the plant is always going to be in the shade at some point so clearly it needs lots of leaves to get round all these problems,
indoors plants get constant light, leaves are not eaten by insects and we prevent disease problems when they appear, so clealy their is room for defol, this time round ive heavily defol a couple of my plants, if i get back early enough tomorrow ill take some more pics and show you the new growth im getting, but please check out bassmans journals below and see how much he uses defol and how well he does, his buds are huge at harvest and clearly the defol he does dont do any harm as his buds end up bigger than most growers buds who dont use the defol method, i sit on the fence, i know when i used heavy defol and lollypopped i ended up with 1 bud that was the exact same size and fatness as a 2ltr pop bottle, i grew that using the defol method bassman uses,
so it does work but then ive had plants that dont respond well, so i sit on the fence and do use defol from time to time but i dont use it on all my plants, i use defol if a leaf is blocking light to lower nodes or if its touching another leaf and sweating, i also use lst to open the plants up to let more light in and if you can get a nice even canopy then the overally buds will be bigger so you would have several big buds instead of one main cola and the rest been slightly smaller, does it increase yield well its hard to tell, you cant exactly do much testing as i cant see you making it a fair test, but using defol at the correct time certainly seems to pay off so i use the defol method from time to time, usually with 1 or 2 plants per grow and i use the defol method right up till harvest, so read bassmans journals and see what you think ,he tells you when the best time to defol is and you can have a look at his plants and see what kind of results he gets using his perfected defol method,
enjoy, here's the links,
increasing yield with defol method indoors
not sure how much info he gives in this journal but worth a look so you can see what he got going on,
bassmans other journal click here
hope you didnt mind me posting the links here, i just like to let people see whats possible using the defol method, some growers are really against removing leaves but when you come across bassmans journals you can clearly see why the method is at least worth checking out
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