Please, please, don't follow the crazy rip-all-the-leaves-off defoliation that I see is so popular!!!
Taking off lower leaves that are dying or completely shaded is one thing,
but so many people strip off everything, totally reduce 90% of their photosynthesis and energy sources.
I just don't get it! Just a fad, very little evidence at all.
Ever notice that the vids of commercial breeders (like Dinafem) don't seem to leaf strip (much) at all?
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I looked all over for any and all controlled grows, comparing defoliated plants to controls. Unfortunately i found very few. The ones i did
find showed clear
indications of no improvement but infact a decline in yeild. You would think that of all the people who have grown, they would have done such a simple experiment. However it seems people keep insisting on doing the method without controls and make subjective opinions on the matter. The most surprising one is where people defoliate and somehow are surprised that a few days later there is more growth. Then conclude the success of their experiment. I cannot enough make it clear how important, controlled side by side comparisons are. This is to remove any and all variables that you 'may' or 'may not' expect, regardless of what you have experienced in the past. Visial bias alone is enough to convince somone of something that is not true. Not everything is as it appears.
I have been through many forums and threads where people claim once and for all to answer this issue and would conduct a controlled grow. Only to almost always fall through and never return, countless threads encouraging people to post their results. Nothing!, ever at all comes to light. Only the select few that seriously go through with it, end up showing the failure of defoliation. Most who are educated in botany or horticulture almost always seem to disagree with the method. Field experts in commercial grows do not employ techniques even though there are ways of doing it efficiently. Studies find no connection, no evidence of any kind.
Page 15- Defoliation Experiment on NYCD Side by Side Grow Experiments forum at International Cannagraphic Magazine.
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Sorry, #rantoff
