Cliché Defoliation question in RDWC Current Culture.

These plants are in first week of flower. Can I defoliate now? Or should I wait until after 3 weeks? I wanna do what I can to maximize my yield being that they’re all short and stubby. Below are some pics of a few of the plants


I planted seeds on December 5th and they were all sprouted by the 10th. Went in the system on the 15th so I’m really not sure when I should’ve started counting days. All mephisto strains

1 plant failed on me.

Most are in 1st week of flower. Only one is in the second week

Using Athena Blended Nutrient Line

Temperature Has Always stayed between 67-75 degrees

RH: Has always stayed between 40-55%. Tried raising it at times but nothing worked

PH: I’ve always had it between 5.6-5.9… with it showing more stability at 5.9

PPM: I made the mistake of following the EXACT directions on the bottle with starting out at 800ppm for the first week. But quickly dropped it to half of that when I saw that they were growing up burnt. I’ve upped it to 650ppm for flower and the dropped 50 points in 24hr period so I’m assuming they’re liking it and taking it pretty well

Did some Defoliation and LST, but in all honesty, It just made my plant even “Messier” but in a good way. Would you guys advise that I keep trying to defoliate?
 

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Treesomewanted77

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These plants are in first week of flower. Can I defoliate now? Or should I wait until after 3 weeks? I wanna do what I can to maximize my yield being that they’re all short and stubby. Below are some pics of a few of the plants


I planted seeds on December 5th and they were all sprouted by the 10th. Went in the system on the 15th so I’m really not sure when I should’ve started counting days. All mephisto strains

1 plant failed on me.

Most are in 1st week of flower. Only one is in the second week

Using Athena Blended Nutrient Line

Temperature Has Always stayed between 67-75 degrees

RH: Has always stayed between 40-55%. Tried raising it at times but nothing worked

PH: I’ve always had it between 5.6-5.9… with it showing more stability at 5.9

PPM: I made the mistake of following the EXACT directions on the bottle with starting out at 800ppm for the first week. But quickly dropped it to half of that when I saw that they were growing up burnt. I’ve upped it to 650ppm for flower and the dropped 50 points in 24hr period so I’m assuming they’re liking it and taking it pretty well

Did some Defoliation and LST, but in all honesty, It just made my plant even “Messier” but in a good way. Would you guys advise that I keep trying to defoliate?
Those things are thick. I would chop some more fan leaves off and tie some branches down to open them up as posted above. You have till day 21 to defoliate but do it slowly over next week or so and if you don’t have to chop them then don’t and just tuck them so they aren’t blocking light from penetrating. You can strip almost all the leafs but I wouldn’t just open them up for some air flow
 
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