You need a different grow media. That stuff has too much wood in it. Your going to be struggling your whole grow if you don't change it out sooner rather then later.
Go with either straight coco or promix.
Those wood chips hold moisture and make it always look overwatered.
Yea that's what I'm leaning towards. I know most that defoliate don't do any until week 3 but I have 6 plants jammed in a 4 x 4 and I had to do it at week 1 they had a vary thick canopy.
I'm pretty confident by defoliating a week 1 I brought up a lot more cola sites and bud sites.
On this grow I've decided to try at major defoliation during flower. I defoliated at day 7 took just about every fan leaf off.
They have bounced back faster then I thought they would and I'm thinking it might be time to pluck more fan leaves as it's filling in fast and starting to block a lot of...
Talk about a burst of upper growth I did the defoliation at just over 1 week into flower and tomorrow will be 2 weeks of flower and in that little time they seem to have exploded with growth.
Hopefully this helps my yield. I think I'm going to do another defoliation at 3 weeks.
Did a big defoliation a couple days ago I'll take a pair soon of what they look like now but here's a pic of after I defoliated. I did end up taking more fan leaves after the pic. I'm pretty much slaughtering these girls to see what they do.
From what I've read I should have waited 2 weeks to...
Just looking back at pics from Tuesday and wow these girls have stretched a little in there first week of 12/12. I think I'll be defoliating later today if I feel comfortable enough with it.
I added a second trellis net. Not sure why. I guess because I had it.