Wow Nicke, superb growing!
Fantastic result. In my current grow my 2 Quadlined girls look like they are at a similar stage in flowering to when you started that major defoliation on yours. Day 18, I think it was. But mine are growing outside, I first saw early pistils in late November, but I can only guess when flowering kicked to being maybe late January, 2.5 - 3.5 weeks ago. But in your pictures when you carried out those major defoliations, it looked to me that the 'budlets' had established themselves but further down the stems the flowers were yet to fill out, which is somewhere around where mine are now. I am wondering whether I should also use this point in time to do a good thinning out like you did too. Is it just removing 80-90% of the fan leaves below the top ones?
Were you doing this to a fixed timetable on a pre-specified day of flowering, or was it done because that was the point that your eye told you was the right stage of development to do it, i.e. when budsetting has been established but yet to fill out?
And you particularly left some fan leaves at the very top. Is that supposed to be more advantageous than instead leaving the leaves at the bottom so at least the light gets less shaded out at the top - just curious if it was for a particularly reason?
What sort of yield did you get from your grow, or they're probably still curing?
I have read good things about when drying to do so with the whole plant which I noticed you were doing in your pics. I also understand drying in the dark is considered desirable but again I notice you weren't enclosing your's in cardboard or paperbags - whole plants are obviously big! My plants are pretty large and horizontally trained so I'm at a loss at how I'm going to dry them whole as well as keep them in the dark. I am just leaning on your experience asking these dumb questions, but wondered if you find drying in the dark to be not that important?
Well done with having Barney's Farm asking you to grow some of their seeds - great stuff!
