New grower did I defoliate to much??

I’m a new grower these are my first both are birthday cake

Yes

Way too much. There is like no canopy, if the light can reach the ground under the canopy then you know you removed too much.

We shall see... keep thread updated.

Defoling is ONLY for experienced growers. you have no reason to take good leafs off the plant.
Any newbs watching: do not take healthy leaves off your plants. learn about that later....

getogrow said:

Defoling is ONLY for experienced growers. you have no reason to take good leafs off the plant.
Any newbs watching: do not take healthy leaves off your plants. learn about that later....

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This heavy defoliation will use less nutes and less water so easier to manage his res going forward. And from what I can understand the cell growth will have better medicinal benefits.

I'd fill the floor with clones, there is good light reaching there

That's not defoliating, that's butchering.

In my opinion yes as a beginner I’d avoid any of the more advance training techniques. I’d try to just get a feel for the plant and do what only needs to be done like water and feed and taking a couple branches off here and there.

NARDS said:

This heavy defoliation will use less nutes and less water so easier to manage his res going forward. And from what I can understand the cell growth will have better medicinal benefits.

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That kinda of "understanding" leads to nothing more than small, mediocre plants.
A new grower should, I dunno, let the plant grow a few times and see what one should look like, before you decide to go butcher them.
You might be surprised by the results.

Is there a plant under that screen?

.Smoke said:

That kinda of "understanding" leads to nothing more than small, mediocre plants.
A new grower should, I dunno, let the plant grow a few times and see what one should look like, before you decide to go butcher them.
You might be surprised by the results.
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For sure, learn the plant...there's a trend with these posts recently of extreme defoliation coincides with knowledge being around of making the plant produce better in terms of medicine and to save water and nutes. Something about cell being sent out to repair translate to you ingesting/inhaling them later.

Why would u defoliate so much when the plant needs it the most to grow big buds . The purpose of defoliating is to be better light exposure to the bottom bud sites.. this could be devastating u cut all the bud sites off lmao but the more u fucked up when learning something the more you’ll understand. Good luck mate hope she gets some bud at least.

Edward696 said:

I’m a new grower these are my first both are birthday cake

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Looks like you’ll yield 10g total

I'm so sorry! We live and we learn, right? I've had a pretty shitty week too w nutrient burn. Good luck! Keep at it!

Honestly I’ve seen a video of someone defoliating every leaf off their plant during the first week of flower, and it bounced back. But I wouldn’t get your hopes up. Make sure you feed VERY LIGHTLY during these next couple weeks, otherwise you WILL cook your plant. Good luck friend, hope you have a nice harvest!

Which week of flower? Which strain?

NARDS said:

This heavy defoliation will use less nutes and less water so easier to manage his res going forward. And from what I can understand the cell growth will have better medicinal benefits.

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And if he gets a pest infestation or screws up nutrients and kills off any of the fans he did leave on he's up shit creek.. Good luck!

As a rule of thumb I only remove leaves for 3-4 reasons...

Reason #1 - the leaf is growing towards the inside of the canopy.
Reason #2 - the leaf is covering a budsite.
Reason #3 - the leaf is ugly and dying.
Reason #4 - the leaf is more than 2/3 down the stalk of the plant and/or restricting airflow.