Time to Defoliate?

hydroScript.js said:

I just feel like there's so much wasted Veg time if you are going to lollipop that much.... i'd rather have shorter veg time So i purned the week before f

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to now this. I'm not an expert but I feel like it;s a better usage of my limited space.....
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My little plants 18 days veg...Reggie-Bushed out day four of starting to flower....so basically veg...
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Now Look...people said I didn't know what I was talking about....
First the Sour-D the one who I chopped all up look at her now just 2nd week of flower...

The Full Garden
No wasted space...

No Need to Lolli-Pop I want All my Bud....I get 15k Lux at bottom and 60k at the top....

Just imagine how much more bud you would have ended up with, with some good training....

The Orange Cookies (left plant) is not putting on as much weight as the Wedding Cake. I went to the bottom of the canopy and pruned some sucker branches off of it to further push those nutrients up to the tops and maybe catch up some to the WC in yield. Things have been moving slow due to a really long period of stretching, but I think adding on a couple more weeks of flower would make up for that if they aren't fully mature by week nine. I didn't remove ANY fans this round of defoliation, only nodes that wouldn't mature and just be larf sucking away from the good buds.