OH!! YA!!! Also. I have essentially quit defoliation as well. Ya ya we prune appear trees and tomatoes. Apple trees are Apple trees. Not even remotely the same thing. Yes you prune the suckers (water shoots)off. Ok well we lolipop the cannabis and pinch off SOME of the little lower flower stems. The apple terr gets the top pruned and thined to allow light to get inside the canopy. Yep. It's a 5, 10, 20 year old tree. It is making Apples. It has from may to October to make Apples. We prunr leaves off if tomatoes. Yep we do. We do not take the canopy off of a tomato. So completely ignorant to compare. No offense. The tomato plant is an indeterminate growe. As it grows it puts out flowers. Starting with the oldest (lower) branches. Guess what. Once a branch has made fruit it will never make fruit again. Do we " lolipop" the tomato as it grows. FROM THE BOTTOM! As you may imagine this promotes growth at the top. Saves the plant from spending energy keeping useless shit alive. And at the same time helps to prevent disease due to old weak dying branches and leaves. "But my buds need light to mature" The lower buds in my
@RocBudInc Grape God were amazing. AMAZING! The leaves as Jeff Lowenfels says are the solar panels. The energy producers. Why remove them? So here is what I think. Let the plant mature with the overwhelming majority of its leaves. Once the buds are mature and fat and greasy and nasty selectively remove some large upper fans to allow some light to penetrate deeper. There is so much time from mature buds to cloudy/amber buds. I know my grow improved when I quit defoliation. "But mold" Go get more fans cheap ass. Keep RH at 50° Keep temps in the 80s always. My room never goes below 80° or above 50 or 52% RH. Sometimes I close the door and give them 98-100° for a couple hours. Make sure to hydrate them very well 1st. I.E. water them and let them have an hour to drink b4 heat wave. It gets fucking hot in Afghanistan, Africa, Thailand. In excess of 110°
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