Slinks' Lemon Amnesia & Money Maker - Coco - Wilma XL 4 Pot - 400W Tent Grow

[Pennywise]

Now let's see some stretch .

 

[Blazinjones]

Nice bro those plants look pretty good now that run of mwrmm where they fem teams in the or regular??

 

[Slinks]

feminised seeds so 99% will be checking the preflowers tho.

 

[Slinks]

 

[Slinks]

flower day 4

 

[Pennywise]

Scrog is coming along nicely

 

[Slinks]

day 5 flower roughly 58-65 da

ys to go

 

[Slinks]

flower day 11

 

[Slinks]

flower day 14.. so is this the last bit of tucking? now I let em grow up. also when should I defoil? my canopy is really cramped up

 

[InTheShed]

Best start now while you still can see what's going on but start by taking only what's blocking lower buds. I'd get the undercarriage cleaned out as well to help with airflow. Loving the bamboo scrog!

 

[Slinks]

bamboo scrog cost 2 euros but it's not very tight. will make it way less flexible next time.
here are some close ups of lemon amnesia on day 16 of flower

 

[InTheShed]

Those tight nodes will make for some dense buds later! All the more reason to defol and get good airflow for moisture control.

 

[Pennywise]

Agreed, those colas are going to stack up tightly.

 

[Slinks]

what are the benifits of trimming leaves like cutting 50%+ of each actual leaf off as opposed to defoil leaf and stem?

 

[InTheShed]

Cutting leaves stresses the plant. Leaves should be completely removed where the petiole meets the branch. That's the least amount of stress to the plant. Defol is stress enough without adding more!

 

[Slinks]

got a link to some evidence of that. cos I defoil a fair bit normallty but I never done any test or research or even questioned it till I started reading forums. I noticed stunted growth at nodes with fans removed during veg. obviously plants recovered as veg. but don't wanna stunt my buds I dunno for sure if they recover.

 

[Pennywise]

I usually remove a few around the time I see first pistils

 

[InTheShed]

Which part are you looking for evidence on, the cutting leaves vs taking them off or the fact that defol is necessary at all?

My feeling is defol should only be done when it is necessary to either 1) increase airflow and prevent mold or 2) to uncover bud sites that can't be uncovered by tucking. Yours falls under 1 at this point. 2 might be a possibility later in flower. The leaves under the canopy are not getting any light and can't contribute sugars to the buds.

Cannabis Defoliation Tutorial: How to Increase Yields by Removing Leaves | Grow Weed Easy

 

[Slinks]

I been doing a small amount of defoil every other day but the girls are super bushy. I tried trimming some bud blocking leaves down and removing biguest fan leaves but prob only 20% I'm gonna keep defoiling till day 21 of flower n then leave her unless I can find evidence to keep going.

 

[Slinks]

it's dark now but I'll take some under carriage shots tommorow.