First time growing, went a little overboard with defoliation. Never expected my girls to do this

[Uberknot]

come on, that's got way more fans than the OP's.

you missed the jist.... anyhow I have no idea why he qouted my message when I was talking about the fact that big ass budding plant doesnt have much for fan leaves compared to other plants I have seen. So yeah It does look like it's eating them.

 

[SPLFreak808]

If your plant is sucking up 600ppm/cf an hour then how would dropping it to 200ppm/cf an hour increase or match yields without prolonging flowering time?

As far as i can tell the only way yield will go up is with increased uptake/metabolism and the only way increased uptake can happen is when the plant can run its photosynthesis process at a faster rate which points to an underlit room or environment problems.

It really blows my mind how a plant can produce much more while using much less.

I dont have an issue with lollipopping but stripping the entire plant (not just a few fans) below is kinda nuts and i cant see it producing more then it should have unless it just had a 200w cfl overhead.

 

[greasemonkeymann]

only old people remember that ah man, there was a time and what a time it was.

i'll date myself a lil more even
gotta love the "member-berries"

 

[Uberknot]

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i'll date myself a lil more even
gotta love the "member-berries"

Try Mighty Mouse, Popeye, Bewitched, Gilligans Island, etc.. and the Fugitive.... OLD SHOWS.

Oh yeah let us not forget Andy Griffith and Happy Days!! those had a good run.

UNDERDOG!!!!!!!

 

[greasemonkeymann]

Try Mighty Mouse, Popeye, Bewitched, Gilligans Island, etc.. and the Fugitive.... OLD SHOWS.

Oh yeah let us not forget Andy Griffith and Happy Days!! those had a good run.

dude mighty mouse, warner bros, and hanna barberra!
nothing like a whoooole lotta excessive violent cartoons for the development of early brains!
man i loved that shit..

 

[Uberknot]

dude mighty mouse, warner bros, and hanna barberra!
nothing like a whoooole lotta excessive violent cartoons for the development of early brains!
man i loved that shit..

The Classic The Three Stooges!!

 

[NaturalFarmer]

What are you talking about? Almost every original leaf is still there. She killed a few off near the end.

I took it as a compliment to you she is a looker.

 

[NaturalFarmer]

well now, you bruised my labia. Very hurtful words.
just ignore me man, and your world will be muuuuch better without me in it.

It/you make no difference to me either way. I wasn't trying to be hurtful nor do I care about your empty and pathetic threats. No I will not ignore you or anybody for that matter. Yo act like you are the final say far to often pal, at least from what I have read.

 

[MichiganMedGrower]

come on, that's got way more fans than the OP's.

Is this plant a better example? Much leafier pheno. I never cut off a healthy leaf. I have only cut a few clones to reveg off this one.

 

[Uberknot]

It/you make no difference to me either way. I wasn't trying to be hurtful nor do I care about your empty and pathetic threats. No I will not ignore you or anybody for that matter. Yo act like you are the final say far to often pal.

Ignoring isn't a bad thing consider it like sending someone to a time out

 

[Uberknot]

Is this plant a better example? Much leafier pheno. I never cut off a healthy leaf. I have only cut a few clones to reveg off this one.

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Nice! it looks like another fat bud type plant.

Where do we gets seeds? As long as it's decent THC levels of course.

So are these long flowering? as in going to take more than 10-12 weeks or more each?

 

[MichiganMedGrower]

I took it as a compliment to you she is a looker.

Thanks. I appreciate it. But I think the plants are getting me very high as I am confused now who I am commenting back and forth with.

 

[NaturalFarmer]

Thanks. I appreciate it. But I think the plants are getting me very high as I am confused now who I am commenting back and forth with.

Have I met you on the farm by chance?

 

[NaturalFarmer]

Larger fan leaves produce huge amounts of sugars, by cutting off the newer fans the plant can get the light to where it can best make sugar.


http://herb.co/2016/05/30/manipulate-sugar-production/

 

[MichiganMedGrower]

Nice! it looks like another fat bud type plant.

Where do we gets seeds? As long as it's decent THC levels of course.

So are these long flowering? as in going to take more than 10-12 weeks or more each?

Those 2 plants are CH9 / Motarebel hybrids from

https://www.ch9femaleseeds.com/

He has stopped producing new fem packs for now for another project but has some stock and some bulk deals.

The info about the strains is there including excerpts from Mota's catalog.

And no. They were not bred to be long flowering at all. Pete says 8-9 weeks. But that time for me is about 70/30 dark to still white pistils and a very up bright classic sativa high. And that is what he advertises.

I grew his strains that way for quite a while and got no complaints.

However like I commented above I let one go long a while back and now I know that the real heavy cannabanoids and terpenes start to come out a few weeks more.

The difference in potency and legs is astounding.

Also. I don't always have time to fully root in the final pot so I think when they go into flower early in their bigger pot they spend a week or two rooting and maturing even in 12/12.

So if you are going to flower with a full root ball developed in the pot I think it would have been done in 11 weeks.

I have confirmed this with the breeder. He was actually amazed they went so long.

I do deal with some late bananas on these Thai diesel hybrids but I have not seen more than a couple seeds.

And they grew great plants so I actually look foward to finding a couple.

 

[MichiganMedGrower]

Have I met you on the farm by chance?

No. I have only had an account here since July and at Rm3's site the same until I left recently.

 

[greasemonkeymann]

Everyone should go to my first thread I created here about FREE CO2 and see who the real troll is bitch. You know evrything and nothing all at once.

love you man, maybe try some MAOIs

 

[idfuckmyplants]

Nice to see what ever you guys are smoking has that chilled out calming effect haha

So where do we actually stand on defoliating , is it good , bad ? ....

@greasemonkeymann @NaturalFarmer

Lol

 

[idfuckmyplants]

I will , just can't decide if I should strip her first lol

 

[NaturalFarmer]

@idfuckmyplants ---- Just wear protection bro. I don't want to read in High Times you got engaged.
http://www.seedsavers.org/blossom-bags

Hey lets just put it this way, why does c02 increase yield in flower?

I do get your point SPL and you are certainly correct in the OP case for sure but I guess the question is which leaves open stomata more frequently and efficiently, new or old? By sacrificing certain fans the plant opens up more sites for new growth to come thus higher uptake of CO2 due to the increased stomata density of the canopy.

"Generally, plant photosynthetic apparati are only designed to function well over a rather narrow range of temperatures. When heated, cytochromes, pigments, and membranes critical to phosphorylation and carbon fixation rapidly denature (i.e., they cook). To avoid this, an individual plant may open its stomata and evaporate water which will lower the leaf temperature. Thus, one may hypothesize that leaves in the sun should have higher stomata density than do leaves in the shade - all else being equal."

http://www.esa.org/tiee/vol/v1/experiments/stomata/stomata_description.html