Defoliation

So my next to harvest girl has some bud sites that had so many freakin leaves that the light couldn't get to them. I read up on defoliating, quite by accident and found this fellow who swears by it. I gave her a good once over last night and today no stress. Hoping I get some good benefits from it.

you can see what she looked like before in my journal. This is what she looks like now. Notice I only pulled fan leaves, and did end up using sterile scissors to trim the bush from around these two tops that never formed. I hope I see some action before harvesting.


Bud site, no bud

I will do it selectively, I think as long as you don't get carried away it is cool. Just keep in mind that the leaves of your plant are its solar panels, so to speak. Cutting too much is not good, some will say don't cut any but that seems a bit extreme imo.

Is that a revegged plant?

beuffer420 said:

Is that a revegged plant?

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I was thinking the same thing when I saw the pics.. What strain is that @rosey?

I'm not sure, some dank I got a hold of last summer. Found 2 seeds in it and this one took.

Not revegged, but close. She was under flowering lights and then I put her outside for a few days. So she did go from flowering to vegging again. Was really concerned about yield so I did some researching and decided on the defoliation. Best thing I could have done, really. I'll update on Monday to show her progress since.

I got my info here:

http://growweedeasy.com/marijuana-defoliation-tutorial

some better shots of her

roseypeach said:

I got my info here:

http://growweedeasy.com/marijuana-defoliation-tutorial

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The guy is an idiot all the way down to this nonsense: "I'm on the side that believe there is absolutely nothing stressful about defoliation or bending branches. Honestly, there is no way to achieve nearly a pound of buds from a 2-3 foot tall plant indoors, except using defoliation." His sorry results speak for themselves.

You need to lurk (search) as there has been a dozen defoliation threads started....by every new crop of newbs. Start with 'lollilopping"

UB

That thing is cool looking. maybe not smokeable but cool. you should out it back outside for a few days and put it back into flowering again. just to see what happens. that is no longer a weed plant and more of a science experiment now.

roseypeach said:

I got my info here:

http://growweedeasy.com/marijuana-defoliation-tutorial

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that is not a real web page. that is made by those advertisement spams to sell spoons or forks or tupperware.

I read your title as Defloweration

if ya know what I mean

Anyway interesting looking plants. It's always fun to be an alien manipulating a plant

Whatever you do to those little ladies won`t help much at this stage my friend. I would let them finish how ever they finish. Do some research on the subject because defoliating at the correct time and properly can and will result in a much stronger yield. UB has no clue as he is living in the 70`s. Brush off his bullshit...look at his avatar.

Uncle popcorn said:

You need to lurk (search) as there has been a dozen defoliation threads started....by every new crop of newbs. Start with 'lollilopping"

UB

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Well I will gladly put one of my newbie lollipopped plants against the crap your pushing ANYTIME. You are the #$%^ coming on here with little knowledge of indoor gardening and you show it every time you open your trap.

Leave the leaves alone.

This is a defoliation thread, if your just here to post something that has nothing to do with defoliation/leaf pruning--- thanks for sharing your "opinion" and move on~

@Sir Ganga, dude just stick to the topic no need to address things that won't help the OP~ I'll make sure (or at-least try) to keep this thread alive, the anti-defol team won't turn this into another closed thread-- but in RIU you'll never know

Impman said:

that is not a real web page. that is made by those advertisement spams to sell spoons or forks or tupperware.

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If you look the site over you will see they are only pushing Nirvana Seeds
It's a commercial with a bunch of bs to get you to love Nirvana Seeds

Sir.Ganga said:

Whatever you do to those little ladies won`t help much at this stage my friend. I would let them finish how ever they finish. Do some research on the subject because defoliating at the correct time and properly can and will result in a much stronger yield. UB has no clue as he is living in the 70`s. Brush off his bullshit...look at his avatar. Well I will gladly put one of my newbie lollipopped plants against the crap your pushing ANYTIME. You are the #$%^ coming on here with little knowledge of indoor gardening and you show it every time you open your trap.

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I will take your challenge

cannawizard said:

This is a defoliation thread, if your just here to post something that has nothing to do with defoliation/leaf pruning--- thanks for sharing your "opinion" and move on~

@Sir Ganga, dude just stick to the topic no need to address things that won't help the OP~ I'll make sure (or at-least try) to keep this thread alive, the anti-defol team won't turn this into another closed thread-- but in RIU you'll never know

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Why don't you save some time and pull together all the defoliation threads at RIU and just link us to them, maybe pin the stupid sons-a-bitches. To have this newbie subject and practice come up once a week speaks volumes about RIU and this community who is more absorbed by gimmicks and trends than scientific facts.

UB

Kite High said:

I will take your challenge

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Now were are getting somewhere. I will in the next month then start a thread in Advanced, that you can join in on. UB maybe its not the community that absorbed, I think you may be self- absorbed.

roseypeach said:

I'm not sure, some dank I got a hold of last summer. Found 2 seeds in it and this one took.

Not revegged, but close. She was under flowering lights and then I put her outside for a few days. So she did go from flowering to vegging again. Was really concerned about yield so I did some researching and decided on the defoliation. Best thing I could have done, really. I'll update on Monday to show her progress since.

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The best thing you could have done if your goal was to reduce your yield. Bud photosynthesize very, very little. Its those fan leaves you removed that power the growth of the buds. Live and learn I guess.

I see Sir Trolls Alot is about and is being about as helpful as ever it sounds. Man the ignore function is SWEET!