I have defoliated my plants in the hope to increase my yeild :)

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Defoliating multiple times shouldn't do any harm based on the fact that people FIM, TOP and supercrop several times in one grow.
 
This very controversial thread was started by a member who only joined RIU a mere week ago.
He fundamentally baits us with an extreme example of defoliation, plus 2 pics that are clearly not the same plant.
Many of us just assumed this was joke thread posted as an absurd ridicule of defoliation, followed by questions rather typical of an extremely novice grower.
Then after receiving the logical responses, he spins it around with the pathetic excuse of posting the wrong pic in error, and then divulges the true history of this plant.
Typically the demonstrations of non-conventional practices are conducted in a professional, scientific and objective manner, allowing nonbelievers an opportunity to consider its validity and to ask questions for clarifications.
Dr. Jekyll


Stinkybuds: typically only the very immature and/or classic troll would use such an approach, as you are clearly not wishing to educate anyone but rather to incite arguments and disputes with the prime purpose of appearing superior by proving them wrong with your questionable validations. Personally I think you are an A-1 troll, highly skilled in the art of being a complete asshole
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neo12345 said:
They are defoliating, they only take the freshly grown shoot tips. They defoliate the plants 3-4 times a year to get the tips to make tea. I think the flowers in the foreground of the picture might have given you the wrong idea?

I am surprised to hear a graduate rubbish an idea and then claim that he has never even tried it, or is ever likely to! Is that what they teach you at University these days?

I do conclude with you though that if you never try it then it won't actually work, so now your idea has been peer reviewed you can publish it as fact.

No wonder we have 'global 'warming'!! lol
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So this is the way to properly do it? Defoliate that is.
 
Ou8aCracker2 said:
That's way too much defoliation.Never remove more than 30% at any one time!

Proper defoliation is done about 2 weeks before flipping to 12/12 and you should only remove a little at a time over the course of two weeks.

Don't defoliate again until the initial stretch in flowering is done,and again,only a little at a time over the course of two weeks.

Small plants don't really benefit from defoliation,but bigger and broader/wider plants do as in veg it opens up the inner parts of the plants to more light,thus creating more bud/flower sites.


Defoliation is a good thing IF DONE PROPERLY!
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I will not bother to argue or troll but the method I posted is the proper way (and reasoning for defoliation) as taught to me by DHF (whom I believe was taught this method by the late and great Heath Robinson),Bobblehead and other old heads that have backed their shit up with proof.
 
I have applied this technique to a multitude of different types of plants and it has been successful.

Butterfly bushes
Basil
Lettuce
Chives
My lawn (the more you mow it the more you have to mow it)

As described previously, the science is sound and proven over and over.

Thanks for a good chuckle at the beginning...not so much reading all the negative shit though.
 
NrthrnMichigan said:
At one point in time everybody believed the earth was flat and if you sailed far enough you would fall off the edge.
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That's actually a popular misconception that we thought the earth was flat during the middle ages, we have known that the earth was round since at least the ancient Greeks.
 
Alexander Supertramp said:
So this is the way to properly do it? Defoliate that is.
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I think you have quoted the wrong post? The post about how to defoliate 'properly' was underneath my post that you quoted and was by someone else.

My post was in reply to Dannyboy that farmers have tried defoliation and it does not work, and I have shown with an example that farmers do use this technique and it does work.

Dannyboy also posted some examples about whether defoliation works or not, the examples of it working were on cannabis plants and he showed that it doesn't work on cucumbers according to that one study. Yet there are plenty of examples of studies out there showing that it works well on some plants but not others, for example grassland that has been defoliated by grazing animals and how different types of grasses react differently to being grazed.

What I don't understand is the huge amount of negativity coming from people who have never tried this technique, anything that could possibly increase your yields should be welcomed and at least be given some consideration?

Cannabis cultivation has changed dramatically over the last 30 years or so and is still changing, and with that old and new techniques have been developed and refined. I'm under no illusion that this will continue to be the case.

I'm most surprised that the majority of this negativity is coming from the more senior members of this forum, it makes you sound like old fuddy duddy's who are stuck in their ways! You can sit and spout on about your Jaguar E Types and the virtues of the steam locomotives, but the rest of us know that the Bugatti Veyron and the Bullet Trains are the future and will continue to strive for bigger and better!
 
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