Get a light meter. At 4-6" away with the usual conventional hood that is more light than the sun and will bleach (destroy) those top leaves as yellow as a canary. See my sig. A bare bulb less but the bottom line is, you can give a plant too much light.
No hood Uncle Ben, vertical mounted bulb.did get a couple of leaves that touched the tube have some bleaching.
Really looks like you lost a lot of potential yield by defoliating. Tsk tsk.....What were you thinking?
Ya I'm taking the bra off they are getting defoliated again tomorrow I still have lot's of time for them to finish.
I'm thinking he had some great genetics, just like my avatar which was Positronics Jack Herer. I'd like to see him come up with that with O. Haze.
You start butchering it again and you're just asking for trouble. You have a lot of fan leaves which along with excellent genetics and your fine horticultural skills has gotten you great results, so far. It's not over until the fat lady sings. It's obvious you understand the art of fine tuning ALL cultural factors, but, I just don't understand why you don't understand the function of a leaf. All factors considered the primary reason you got to where you are today is because of the abundance of healthy fan leaves.
other people do fine without it, better than fine. you are taking credit that you shouldn't , that makes you a fraud. the haze brothers brought us these genetics.
I know what and why every plant response happens based on a certain action as I'm a veteran gardener and current commercial niche farmer. I'm just not in the camp of removing a productive leaf so I can watch another take its place. I find that practice stupid and only sets the plant back. Been there, done that.
That's a feeling not a fact. You didn't run a control group, right? Nah sah.....so how in the hell do you know what it would have done since you didn't have a control group and adhered to standard testing operatives?
Every plant yield has to do with genetics, just like all your posts trying to prove how awesome your growing is. It's all genetics, how you control your plant to suit your growing environment and maximize your potential yield is up to the grower.
Do I hear an echo?
It is genetics. You want FAT colas, I mean like 16" across? Here's a plant that had a pure sativa phenotype (weak stems, airy colas) pruned to 4 main colas. In spite of being staked, the colas were so heavy they bent over to the ground.
Ok, What's your point? You can grow nice buds too, but those are outside with no space limitations. Shows me I really think your missing the point Ben, of course fan leaves produce energy for the plant. Every person who defoliates understands that. The point is that, when properly done it is another way to control your plants, it's not a magical way of producing big buds but when you have a limited growing space your plants will reach their maximum height in x amount of time. If you slow that x amount of time down then your plant will be more mature, and have a larger root mass and more branching to support more bud growth. There are other ways of doing this ie topping, kushman style pruning or varying with day/night temps. Defoliating is another way of getting more out of a limited space. That's one of the advantages for defoliation anyway.
