nice! thank you, good description and the pictures really helped. The final pic of the mature plant, is that picture defoliated right before harvest or do you keep it that lean leaf wise for a while?
. Now this is not true with photos where manifolding will actually increase the yield considerably. I do believe that the quality of the flowers both autos and photos is much improved by leaving most of the fans. I am lazy and now the only thing I do to autos is top above the fourth node and defoliate low for airflow only if and when needed.Hi. thanks for the reply. How long does it take to "clear" everything under the 4th node? A few days, a week? Do you start LST before defoliating? I usually start LST around when the 4th or 5th node appears. I want to try new things next grow. I might try this way.
I have never topped. My issue isn´t the final weight, is the space on the tent. I have new bud sites appearing until the end of the grow. New branches and things like that. So i would like to find a way to defoliate/prune that allows me to have better space management, and less branches.I have done LST, HST heavy defoliation, lollipop, no defoliation all manor of manifolding and the thing with autos is they all seem to yield about the same regardless to the torture plan
Yep. My story exactly. Let's find a way out together brother (i assume by the username)
