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A lot of outdoor plants spend the nights in temperatures that go down into the 30s. Not much to worry about.Was 16 degrees this morning, got down to 57 in my apt. My plant is not looking very happy.
Hey Chris great garden my friend.I have developed a bad habit of defoliating, I just trimmed off a big pile of leaves an small branches 10 days ago. and I'm getting itchy scissor fingers already. does opening up the interior of the plant to let in more light to the smaller branches make up for the effort she will make growing back what I cut off ? are those smaller branches worth trying get them to grow bigger or should I just cut off the lower small branches and let her put all her effort into the top third of the big branches... I've been growing cannabis since 1985 you would think I'd have this all figured out by now
Thanks Bill, I made a point not cut off all her big fans this go around just the ones that were growing to InteriorHey Chris great garden my friend.
If you clean out under her skirt imo that's all you need.
Let her leaves be.
They absorb energy through those fans.
That energy goes to the nearest bud , regardless if the bud gets sun or not.
Buds don't absorb light fans do.
Let the fans do there job and put away your clippers and leave the outdoor girls to do their thing.
Keep up the good work.
Stay safe
Bill
This is the basics.Let her leaves be.
They absorb energy through those fans.
That energy goes to the nearest bud , regardless if the bud gets light or not.
Buds don't absorb light fans do.
Let the fans do there job and put away your clippers away
I tried defol years ago and found it forced her to grow more leaves thus defeating the purpose of removing them in the first place.This is the basics.
The way I see it, the plant switches over to the flowering stage because of the hormones. Once that stage starts the plants slows down and eventually stops producing more leaves so it will not replace the ones that we, as the growers, have cut off.
If the plants go through the stage where the remaining leaves start to turn yellow and fall off. This is a sort of natural defoliation but we have to remember that there will be no more new fan leaves to replace those. No more even though our plants might have 2 or 3 or 4 more weeks to go.
Almost like there are two different plants with their own needs and requirements.Then they reach a point like you say once that hormone is in them it's bud time.
Then if you have defoled her you are feked.