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Day 90 / Day 38 of Flower I did some defoliation, I removed some of the larger fan leaves (most of them), to allow more light to get to the buds. I feel I may have stunted the bud growth by not doing this sooner so I have learnt my lesson for next time. Looking much better with fewer leaves and I feel the airflow in my tent is now greatly improved, as well as light penetration. The Beautful looking bagseed: GSC, she had tons of leaves! Probably the most out of all the plants: GDP, looking mighty fine those buds! Nice and shiny, may not be the grape pheno but has me very excited to try her: CBD Critical Mass: Bruce Banner #3, the one which seems the most affected as it really has not filled out very well. Hoping it improves but I feel it is a bit late: A looot of leaves were removed, that is a 20L bucket. Just containing leaves from the 6 flowering plants: Pictures of what the tent looks like now after the plants have had their manicture:

What!!! 3 prizes!?!?! This has become so much more amazing now!!! Hell yes I'm in this one

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I'll kick it off with a Pic I took last night. Pic from my male Chocolope wearing a crown

It's hard to judge your plant with the pictures as in some photos the leaves look rather light and in others they look a bit darker. Are you giving her enough nutes? You PH your water and so forth? Also now that you are going into flower you want to start increasing the Potassium and Phosphorus and back off a bit on the nitrogen.

Pffft, it's not that big

Wow wow wow. That's looks super. They just look so happy,....... [emoji6] Sent from my FIG-LX1 using Tapatalk

Alright, so some of you saw I ran an experiment with a cutting in a zip lock bag. I left it on the outskirts of my grow and a month later... Boom, I have a root. So here on out I will be nursing her back to health and flowering her and Taking more cuttings... This exact plants mommy is currently busy flowering and wow is she hot!! So stick around to watch this hulk get angry!!!

This is the other Chocolope I am flowering. She is about 2 weeks ahead for my other plant. She is a much darker green plant. 1st 3 pics are about 2 weeks ago. Sent from my VTR-L09 using Tapatalk

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So far so good. Pushing really fat leaves across the board.

Power Plant of doom

I will do you one better, Super skunk starting to show her true colors.

Now I really wish you had some OM soil to compare.

My pants cannot contain my erection

Aaasrgh! The wind knocked her over on Sunday afternoon...ugly gusts of wind picked up late afternoon... She lost a branch, couple of fan leaves and the main stem was split from the top about 8cm...taped her up as best I could and it looks ok for now

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And there you have it folks!! It only took a whole month lmao As soon as I saw that, I took the Pic... And took the poor thing and started the recovery process... Should be right as rain in no time

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Have another

Sitting on top of the world......

Was a clone in a cup with some rocks.

Yes... That low.. I do need a new RH meter... This one I don't feel is giving me proper readings... Might need a new battery haha. But even before I was concerned about the state of the meter... Readings often went down to 10%... Especially over this dry spell we have had

@CreX 10%? My average low RH in the house is around 29%

kush and cheese

You're lucky haha... I can't get mine up!! My veg area is around 40% And my flower room bounces between 10 and 35%

I am not able to keep my RH that low unfortunately, I try and open my tent to drop the RH at least twice a day. So try make a plan if you have to.

Depending on how far into flower they are. 63 is a bit high for flowering in general. Try aim for 40% RH and go as low as 30% in very late flower

One week later and she's looking beautiful. She was the only one i didn't trim or top or defoliate, until last night that was. i just defoliated her a bit below the canopy, clearing of those branches you know wont reach the top. Hoping to see a boost in growth to the top as with the others i cleared below the canopy.

I meant with the pictures I posted last night, haha. That was the 3rd time I had defoliated the plants.

If you have no choice? I have done it before with bag seed. But the best would be to put another scrog net up and then super crop. Sent from my VTR-L09 using Tapatalk

These guys outside have all started budding. These pics were taken last week, will update with fresh pics later today or tomorrow

So this is the 3rd defoliation I have done since flipping to flower. I lolipopped / schwarzed the plant twice - one when flipping to flower and again a week or so later and now removed the fan leaves. I should have removed the leaves sooner though, left all sugar leaves! Although even some fan leaves had some heavy trichomes going on at the base and stem.

Im not sure what you mean, i got a scrog net in there. they way past it. lollipopped them all. i tried tying some of those tall branches down to the net, without snapping/bending them. one did bent though. will see if this helps.

Yes I have and it's fun to use when germinating seeds. It's also a safe way to know your seeds pop. I did it a few times cause I had plenty of plugs but now I just use it for cuttings until it's finished You do not need a propegator but can if you want. I personally don't cause I think it's keeps the seeds to wet. Had some not come up and found them black inside plug. Your seeds should germ in 3 - 5 days. Just keep it moist but letting it sit in little water to drink from the bottom Sent from my FIG-LX1 using Tapatalk

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Count me in. If breeders want to see how their strain do in hydroponics, I'm more than happy to assist.

I watched the video as well, although I think I will be doing a defoliation when I get a chance - removing just the fan leaves and leaving the sugar leaves. If the fan leaf is really not in the way of bud sites, I will leave it. However if it may prevent airflow or stop light from penetrating better it will be removed - so probably just keep fan leave son the outside of the branches and plant. On another note, I got a cheap USB microscope a while ago to help me check my trichomes and did a quick check on the bagseed plant and its starting to turn cloudy. Really liking the microscope so far.

Yeah but like I said previously, just test one side branch or remove one or 2 leafs to see how they react. If the reaction is positive take off more next time. When your indoors your control the sun. The parts that do not receive light will be energy wasters and thus removing them. Focus on the parts that gets more light. Edit: that youtube video is an outdoor grow. This is based on indoor

Thanks @Totemic! So for indoors open up bud sites quite a bit and lollipop?

Indoors remove. Outdoors leave.

Jorge Cervantes says no (Trouble with trial and error is the error part when you only have one plant ) (I saw this from @Oolong83 originally)

Sunday update. Flushed the mobi dicks on the right side of tent a week ago .. still one week left but will wait till trichomes go 20-30% amber..big colas where starting to fall from the weight... had to tie them up still letting the lemon thai go a bit till i see orange pistols .. hard training the clones.. up to 8 main colas on them now... stopping at 16

I'm trying to decide exactly the same thing at the moment.

So I did a defoliation when I flipped to flower than akother around 2 weeks in and haven't touched it since. I may try remove some fan leaves to give a bit more light penetration though. Been toying with the idea, should I or shouldn't I. It's 1.2 x 0.6 and I think 1.7 tall. Not a big tent at all. Sent from my Redmi Note 7 Pro using Tapatalk

There's a lot of debate when it comes to defoliation, but I think it comes down to a few things. I personally defoliate like mad. Did a defoliation before plants went into flower. Did another one 2 weeks in. If i think about it then it comes down to this..... PLANT TRAINING If you train your plants (like scrog) then your pulling down and using all that growth. The growth on the underside of the screen needs to be cut off anyway, a type of defoliation, not true..... [emoji848] 2. QUANTITY VS QUALITY This is where is start to defoliate. If you clear all the leafs covering potential bud sites then cut that fucker off. I've seen great results with my Red Cherry Berry and Monster Gorilla. Will update my thread tonight. The quality bud bud from all the sites is great. 3. GROW EXPERIENCE I started small and went heavier over time to se what the plants do or not do. I've never had any ill effect in terms of bud production being a issue. I'm doing another defoliation in week 5 and then I'm done. I try to do atleast 3 defoliations in the flowering cycle. What size tent do you have??? I'm getting a new one soon but before that I'm getting a new light for my veg cab the current lights is super ghetto. It works good but it's time for an upgrade Main reason for my question. Saw how super easy it is to build a scrog screen and even a floating double scrog screen. Sent from my FIG-LX1 using Tapatalk

So I've been wondering whether to do some defoliation or not, I don't wanna stunt the bud production but at the same time it's certainly affecting the light penetration. I have tried to physically move branches around and tuck leaves to assist with light penetration. As for the light spread, I run my lights very low to the canopy and I have them staggered. A lot lower than other grows I've seen, I have the luxury of having quite a few quantum boards in that small space. How much it affects the bud not having direct light under there I am not sure - buds are still growing and resin production still seems to be happening pretty well. Realistically, I don't think majority of people have direct light under every plant. I don't feel it's a problem, it's a small area and already I feel as if 380W in the area is overkill. I can increase it to 480w, actually 504w max, but feel its really not needed. Next flower grow I may turn the power down and see how it compares. Edit: I feel a scrog net would have increased light penetration and increased the efficiency in terms of using my tent space for flowering. Next time I flower I'd like to scrog if I can. Sent from my Redmi Note 7 Pro using Tapatalk

Wow that's some good growing there man. 2 Questions 1. Are you gonna defoliate??? 2. About your light spread. I edited your photo to ask and I also hijacked another topic with this question but seeing that I got a photo to help I'll ask it again. Your main light spread is the orange part that I circled and that's the sweet spot for the buds being produced, but the areas marked in pink is NOT in the direct / sweet spot of the light spread. How does that influence the bud production in terms of density/ bud to leaf ratio, etc ??? I want to use my tent to its full potential.

Flowering : Week 9 Started taking down the gg#4. I think I'll be trying to make some bubble hash. Never had this much frosting.