darkdestruction420
Well-Known Member
I've tried multiple times, it irritates me when people just assume we've never tried something when we have, anyways no hard feelings.It isn't uprising a majority of you all attack something that so strongly goes against your beliefs, something that has been pounded into your brain since you first read how to grow marijuana. I guarantee 100% of you hating on this technique HAVE NOT tried this, or if you have you did not do it correctly. It baffles me how people will swear up and down that this does not work when you haven't even tried.
I was just like a majority of you. When I saw this thread on ICMAG I told myself "this is retarded" but I did a side by side test. And guess what out of 4 plants, the 2 that were defoliated averaged +20 grams than the non defoliated.
I don't see how this can be refuted. I urge you people to just try it on ONE plant. What's the harm in doing it to one plant - its not going to kill it, and the worst that could happen is you could lose some weight but it WONT happen i promise you.
Uncle Ben - earlier in this thread, and in other threads you say many things to the effect of "most of what is popular belief on forums or in growing culture in general is false." You made many valid points to this truth - especially when it comes to fancy nutes and such. Why can't the theory that defoliation will ruin your plant and not product heavier fruits be false too?
I can't begin to tell you why this works.... but I do know that when you practice this in veg an exponential amount of bud sites pop up after each defoliation. YOU MUST DO THIS DURING VEG...DO NOT DO THIS DURING FLOWERING ONLY. The main reason why this works is because all the lower branches will get much more light and grow up to the level of your main colas. I think this is the main reason I got more weight, because I had way more bud sites than the 2 that were not defoliated.
I will test out my next theory and I think I am on to something. I think if you were to defoliate during veg ONLY and let all of those bud sites pop up because of the leaf removal, then NOT DEFOLIATE DURING FLOWER I will get even better results. This will allow the fan leaves to continue to do their thing during flower when they apparently are needed the most.
I urge you people to give this a shot with just one measly plant. We humans think we know everything. The fact is we don't - and if you were to look at history you will see how strongly we held onto beliefs in the past and then eventually realized just how wrong we were. Why can't this be applied here? The truth is we really don't know much about the marijuana plant in terms of science. Laws and regulations has limited any real scientific studies....the only real scientific study on marijuana to date I have found is on the HEMP plant back in the 40s. And funny enough they found that cannabis grows best with the 9-3-6 NPK ratio which is exactly what Uncle Ben has advocated for so long. However this was done on HEMP plants which is grown for their stalk and not flowers...so this ratio is best for VEG and not necessarily the bloom stage.
Sorry for the ramble but it kind of irritates me when people will swear to something that they have never tried. Just give it a shot guys!
