here are my plants week 3 looks bad right? i over did it on purpose to see what would happen. would the plants just die? either way here they are at end of week five....so thats it they seemed to slow down maybe a week and a half behind previous grows

my video end of third week.

so.... after i cut my leaves 4 days ago my plants looked naked most told me they were going to die or






at the very least slow down,in both cases i was wearily ready for either outcome... what DID happen was after an hour my girls were praying again and the very next day began to develop cute lil flowers right on schedule, but what i do notice is that the nodes are really close together as well as more bud sites..

so i dont know if the extremely quick recovery was because of the heavy 16 but they did just snap right back

the fan leaves are back in full force in one week from last cut///// wont be cutting them again until after stretch

the plan was to remove all fan leaves large or medium and yes this entire run i've been DE-leafing since third node........ and here are my strippers ready for the pole.....

Here we go day number 14 of 12/12 and im about to do a full on extreme de-leafing!!!!!! Wish me luck... or hate... I am truly loving this experiment!!

i heard a lot about how terrible/great defoliation is, tried to follow a thread previously posted but it just turned in to a my dick is bigger contest, so i said to my self , "self, lets do one with little to no fan leaves and see what happens,"... and then i said self people are also talking great/terrible about AN prices and content, so i said since im trying this out might as well disprove or prove both old wive's tales to myself at least, but i will also post my findings so you're welcome to discover with me, here are the ladies first day of flower and after their last deleafing and here is the nute schedule i will be following minus the bud ignitor will be using bud blood instead https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...1dlTG8zbUJKRlE

Like the others said, your driving in the blind without a proper ppm and ph meter; I mean really wtf?

You want to up your game then stop playing around and get Heisenburg about that shit. Record your ppm when you mix. Then when you top off with plain water to the original water height then measure PPM again. Now you know exactly how much nutrients were absorbed. Do the same with ph but let it float around. In a healthy system with appropriate amounts of res volume to plants you should be able to mix nutes with a ph of 5.6 or so then it will float up as nutrients are absorbed. It should take about 10 days to getyao 6.3 or when the ppm are about 1/2 of the original strength, it's time for a new res mix. Write all that hit down and keep it in a notebook. Then you can learn and refine and start to understand what the hell is going on .
Cheers

Like the others said, your driving in the blind without a proper ppm and ph meter; I mean really wtf?

You want to up your game then stop playing around and get Heisenburg about that shit. Record your ppm when you mix. Then when you top off with plain water to the original water height then measure PPM again. Now you know exactly how much nutrients were absorbed. Do the same with ph but let it float around. In a healthy system with appropriate amounts of res volume to plants you should be able to mix nutes with a ph of 5.6 or so then it will float up as nutrients are absorbed. It should take about 10 days to getyao 6.3 or when the ppm are about 1/2 of the original strength, it's time for a new res mix. Write all that hit down and keep it in a notebook. Then you can learn and refine and start to understand what the hell is going on .
Cheers

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and i still cant believe these are only three plants, my last grow(check journal) was ten plants nowhere near this size canopy!!!

purple wrecks just three plants...