If a forum was a democracy, the nays would win hands down 47 against and 12 for removing leafs. So what has been proven here? Things aren't always what they seem to be? Just because it looks, sounds and walks like a duck...is it really a duck? How can we as a group, that after all, only want to know the best way possible to grow our plants and glean the information out of such a heated debate. As a noob at this game, to me leaving the leaves on makes way more sense than taking them off.
On the other hand dlively11's technique seems to have some merit, although in "5 years of growing indoors only the last year have I stripped the leaves and coincidentally my yields are triple what they were a year ago. Strains I HAVE done controlled comparisons are , Blue Cheese, Super Skunk, Blue Dream, Casey Jones, Chronic White Widow, Cheese, Sweet Tooth, Chem Dog, and more.... Grown in the same room same lighting and the trimmed tray out yielded the untrimmed tray two fold." seems to me a bit of a stretch.
So is it just black and white here? What is the reason dlively11's yields are so high? Can you grow traditionally and get the same yields per sq ft? Curious minds want to know!
If you paid attention you would know that Dlively has proven science wrong over and over and over again in his garage where he grows 10 pounds per 4x4 tray every 30 days and is now working on cutting the flowering time in half by removing the entire root ball at 30 days into flower.
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