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

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Alexander Supertramp

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neo12345 said:
Whatever next eh? One day people will be growing plants INDOORS!! and using that new fangled electricity to grow them with!! :o
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Not all that new fangled. We have been growing plants indoors with great success for over 50 years. Unfortunately with the new fangled internet horticulture and botany have taken steps backwards. On cannabis forums anyways. It is the age of information and stoners cannot figure out how to use it. So they come up with this forum paradigm bullshit and try to pass it off as fact.
 
dannyboy602

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Popcorn900 said:
Code: 
http://howtogrowmarijuana.com/super-cropping-technique
key words "stressing"
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I'm sorry newb...I meant to say "link to credible data". Just because you read armchair growers ramblings on the internet doesn't make their wild claims true. If your link ends in .edu it will give it some credibility. Try again.
 
Popcorn900

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dannyboy602 said:
I'm sorry newb...I meant to say "link to credible data". Just because you read armchair growers ramblings on the internet doesn't make their wild claims true. If your link ends in .edu it will give it some credibility. Try again.
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Dannyboy if you weren't a mod you know what I would be telling you right now.

P.S remember you befriended me and I rejected your request lol.
 
noham

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Not 100% relevant, but the branch sprayed with colloidal silver produced fatter and more developed buds (than branches untouched) before turning male.
Shame it's not fit for consumption :P

Maybe somebody with botanical knowledge could make something out of why this happens, and even put out a bud booster :D
 
dannyboy602

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Don't change the subject. If you want to talk botany I'm up for a discussion. I already got my degree. Where did you get yours?
 
^su

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Popcorn you've been growing for 10 years only to find out recently that butchering your plant in flower will and has caused hermie for YOU. You specifically said you wouldn't do it again, sounds to me like yourdoingitallwrongbro and are still all chapped that your fail in defoliation only turned your perfectly fine sinsemilla crop into a bunch of leafy seeded mids.

All those pictures you guys post of these plants that have been "defoliated" during flower only causes the buds sugar leaves to stretch ending with a higher leaf to calyx ratio. Clearly you have no idea what a finished plant should look like. Enjoy smoking your mids
 
Popcorn900

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^su said:
Popcorn you've been growing for 10 years only to find out recently that butchering your plant in flower will and has caused hermie for YOU. You specifically said you wouldn't do it again, sounds to me like yourdoingitallwrongbro and are still all chapped that your fail in defoliation only turned your perfectly fine sinsemilla crop into a bunch of leafy seeded mids.

All those pictures you guys post of these plants that have been "defoliated" during flower only causes the buds sugar leaves to stretch ending with a higher leaf to calyx ratio. Clearly you have no idea what a finished plant should look like. Enjoy smoking your mids
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If you would quote my entire statement that would help. I won't do it again to the extreme I did in the past but theres nothing stopping me from doing it the last couple of weeks of flower. I argue because this works, I have done it and I have seen the results.
 
Mellodrama

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neo12345 said:
5. After approx 21 days from the day you flipped you defoliate again, your plant does not get shock this time because the plant is used to having it's leaves stripped...

Is it really that hard to comprehend??
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I'm sorry, but that is hard for me to comprehend. Maybe because I'm not an experienced ganja grower. You strip off almost all the leaves, which you admit shocks the plant. Then you come back a few weeks later and do it again. This time the plant doesn't mind because it's used to it??

It's a controversial method at the very least. This thread should probably be moved to the "Advanced Growing Techniques" section where newbs are less likely to see it and do something regrettable to their plants.
 
dannyboy602

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Refs for defoliating for anyone who is interested. There is a technique to it that might be good for small grows if indeed it works, which I'm not convinced it does. I've never tried it and probably won't. I cringe at the thought. Here are refs for both pro and con. My feeling for the pro studies is that there are many influences on plant growth and if controlled side by side comparisons are not done then the results are inconclusive. As MJ growers in the Pro studies had not compared their defoliated plants to non defoliated plants (and I looked long and hard to find experiments that included both) there can't be any real basis for saying defoliation works however the interesting studies done on food crops makes me curious because their studies included both defoliated and non defoliated plants. Decide for yourself.
Pro:
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=174163
http://www.growweedeasy.com/marijuana-defoliation-tutorial

Con:
http://cuke.hort.ncsu.edu/cucurbit/wehner/articles/art028.pdf

Varied results according to defoliation timing (an interesting read):
http://abu.edu.ng/publications/2013-03-05-100430_8174.pdf
http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/424/424-300-09/cotton_harvest.pdf
 
neo12345

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Mellodrama said:
I'm sorry, but that is hard for me to comprehend. Maybe because I'm not an experienced ganja grower. You strip off almost all the leaves, which you admit shocks the plant. Then you come back a few weeks later and do it again. This time the plant doesn't mind because it's used to it??

It's a controversial method at the very least. This thread should probably be moved to the "Advanced Growing Techniques" section where newbs are less likely to see it and do something regrettable to their plants.
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It's just a case of training the plant Mello, if you want another analogy then it's like training for a marathon. You wouldn't just go out and run the 26 miles with no training, I think i'd hermie and die too!!

Take a look at that grow I posted from 420, you'll get the idea. I tried to make my description more of a very simplified version so that everyone can understand it.

It's not really an advanced technique, anyone can pull a leaf off!! :-?
 
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