Over-Defoliation Technique

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jochhe1998

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Hey everyone,

So I had a go at the week 3 flower defoliation technique. For those of you who don't know this is where you remove every major fan leaf during week 3 of flower. Before you say I'm insane there are lots of people who use this method and achieve over 3+ lbs per light (look up threealigtht and garden first if you don't believe me).

My question is for those of you that have tried this strategy before and have been successful/unsuccessful (if you're just going to say plants need fan leaves for photosynthesis please refrain from commenting).

I believe my canopy might have not had enough nodes for this to work properly and I am curious about people's experiences with the process.

How did it work for you? How dense was your canopy? Would love to hear some opinions.

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oill

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jochhe1998 said:
Hey everyone,

So I had a go at the week 3 flower defoliation technique. For those of you who don't know this is where you remove every major fan leaf during week 3 of flower. Before you say I'm insane there are lots of people who use this method and achieve over 3+ lbs per light (look up threealigtht and garden first if you don't believe me).

My question is for those of you that have tried this strategy before and have been successful/unsuccessful (if you're just going to say plants need fan leaves for photosynthesis please refrain from commenting).

I believe my canopy might have not had enough nodes for this to work properly and I am curious about people's experiences with the process.

How did it work for you? How dense was your canopy? Would love to hear some opinions.

Before and After pics attached.
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Works well on some plants... on others it has caused them to hermie.

Your plants look ok and they will recover and give you some good budsnif everything else is good.
 
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jochhe1998

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oill said:
Works well on some plants... on others it has caused them to hermie.

Your plants look ok and they will recover and give you some good budsnif everything else is good.
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Hey Oill,

Thanks for stopping by the thread buddy! I hope your prophecy comes true :P.

Have you tried this method before?
 
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FidelCa$hflow

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Is this the very beginning of week3 or closer to the end of three? Those plants look very healthy. All the same strain i presume and looks like you mainlined them... i got some many different strains and my room is more crowded. I wonder if i could get away with trying that...
 
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jochhe1998

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FidelCa$hflow said:
Is this the very beginning of week3 or closer to the end of three? Those plants look very healthy. All the same strain i presume and looks like you mainlined them... i got some many different strains and my room is more crowded. I wonder if i could get away with trying that...
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This was day 19 from 12/12 switch.
 
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jochhe1998

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rkymtnman said:
so how close were you to 3lbs?
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Very far. this cultivar's nodes were too spaced. No CO2. I also think I did more harm than good with the defoliation in this circumstance because my canopy was not dense enough. If you're trying this technique for the first time I would recommend leaving a couple of big fan leaves on just to be safe.
 
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MidnightSun72

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I like to defoliate pretty heavily, remove an branches bottom third of the plant. And kill off any scraggly branches as well.

At 2-3 weeks in I do another defoliation take off every single inward jack and inward node. Plus anything that doesn't look like it will get big enough to carry a fat ass cola.

Then I just remove any yellowed leaves immediately and do some sensible defoliation/pruning from there (like leaves shading bud sites etc).

I get no where near 3lbs a light though. .75 to 1.5 on the high end lol.
 
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jochhe1998

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MidnightSun72 said:
I like to defoliate pretty heavily, remove an branches bottom third of the plant. And kill off any scraggly branches as well.

At 2-3 weeks in I do another defoliation take off every single inward jack and inward node. Plus anything that doesn't look like it will get big enough to carry a fat ass cola.

Then I just remove any yellowed leaves immediately and do some sensible defoliation/pruning from there (like leaves shading bud sites etc).

I get no where near 3lbs a light though. .75 to 1.5 on the high end lol.
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Do you run VPD and CO2 as well?
 
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