I'm not trying to convince anybody...it's an experiment. Why do you guys assume that it's my intention to convince. Either you agree or not it's entirely up to you. I'm just sharing my experiment...what is hard about that?
Ahh so this is you attempt at humor: not funny! .. maybe this is...?Spam?
Dude are you the post police or something? Chill man.
If you want it to be a serious posting....how about this....I'm defoliating my plant which is about maybe 6-7 weeks into flower and wants your expert opinion(you seem to be the expert here) if this technique would work or not.
Now add something constructive.
Well. Its not like I pissed in your Cheerios or anything.
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Gotta say, a sharp serrated knife was the perfect tool for this job. It took less than 5 mins to defoliate this section of brussel sprouts.Hmm... now that you mention it, Mrs. Stool found an article that said defoliating brussels sprouts helps yield, so we're going to try it. Yesterday I took a serrated kitchen knife & cut off most of the lower growth. Basically, anything that didn't get direct sunlight got chopped.
In hindsight, I should have left a few of them alone for a side-by-side test.
Fuck.
I agree with most of this, but I had three plants that had green fan leaves right to the end.Ahh so this is you attempt at humor: not funny! .. maybe this is...?
If these inhibitor-laden leaves are removed, the plant will proceed to flower, and maturation will be accelerated. Large leaves shade the inner portions of the plant, and small atrophied floral clusters may begin to develop if they receive more light.
In actuality, few if any of the theories behind defoilatin or de-leafing give any indication of validity. Indeed, leafing possibly serves to defeat its original purpose. Large leaves have a definite function in the growth and development of Cannabis. Large leaves serve as photosynthetic factories for the production of sugars and other necessary growth sub-stances. They also create shade, but at the same time they are collecting valuable solar energy and producing foods that will be used during the floral development of the plant.
Premature removal of leaves may cause stunting, because the potential for photosynthesis is reduced. As these leaves age and lose their ability to carry on photo-synthesis they turn chloro tie (yellow) and fall to the ground. In humid areas care is taken to remove the yellow or brown leaves, because they might invite attack by fungus.
During chlorosis the plant breaks down substances, such as chlorophylls, and translocates the molecular components to a new growing part of the plant, such as the flowers. Most Cannabis plants begin to lose their larger leaves when they enter the flowering stage, and this trend continues until senescence. It is more efficient for the plant to reuse the energy and various molecular components of existing chlorophyll than to synthesize new chlorophyll at the time of flowering. During flowering this energy is needed to form floral clusters and ripen seeds.
Removing large amounts of leaves will interfere with the metabolic balance of the plant. If this metabolic change occurs too late in the season it could interfere with floral development and delay maturation. If any floral inhibitors are removed, the intended effect of accelerating flowering will be counteracted by metabolic upset in the plant.
Removal of shade leaves does facilitate more light reaching the center of the plant, but if there is not enough food energy produced in the leaves, the small internal floral clusters will not grow any larger. Leaf removal may also cause sex reversal resulting from a metabolic change.
(https://www.rollitup.org/Journal/Entry/de-leaf-or-not.30156/)
Good luck with your experiments. If you have the time and space to do a legit side by side with clones and everything equal post your results. I don't think I've ever seen it done before, it's talked about a lot but never proven to increase anything but peoples blood pressure.I started this thread with humor and hopefully we can discuss this process intelligently. What I didnt expect is to see a bunch of Kings in here.
FYI, you're no better than me nor I'm better than you. If you cant discuss this process intelligently without resulting to crudeness and hostility...I refuse to answer any post.
I will come back to this thread and post the final result....good or bad
Meanwhile post on your insults and hostility.
Oh I encourage someone to try new things. I've tried a lot of stuff, some of it silly, just to see if it works.
The guy with over 40 years of growing. The guy who has sat here and watched "experiment after experiment" in defoliation, never finish because the poster quit when he found his defoliation was failing....I have no responsibility to anyone to post a list of failed experiments so they don't stick their neck out and be ridiculed. All you had to do was search defoliation here. Go find it yourself. It was your neck you stuck out.
Will the plant attempt to finish faster? Yes but, not by enough to make the amount of end result lost to be worth it!
How? Green till their done or you didn't feed properly.....
BINGO THAT!
Yes indeed!
you ever gonna piss on the plant or whatDrinking coffee and enjoying my cheese danish and reading all the talented responds of the geniuses here.
Hmmmmm....very entertaining
I already did that. Anything else you like to suggest?
Their just trying to help.It's actually cool...I think......I've never been in a small pool full of blood thirsty sharks
