It can go horribly wrong and everything you touch turns to dust...but thats not very often thankfully. if your really gonna join the club and not be a 1 plant wonder (we get a lot of em) you HAVE to get all the PH, temp, humidity checkers bro. especially PH..as that can change all by itself over time with no other condition changing =/
)Well I am gunna go against the grain here and disagree with most here. Defoliation CAN NOT increase yeild, ever, at all, it is physicly impossible. Accually I believe it DECREASES the size of the yeild. This subject reminds me of people who claim that drinking thier own urine is healthy... not a drop of real scientific proof yet they will argue till they lose thier voice...I think it is because they would be too embarassed if they were wrong.
dont like the idea of drinking it, but urine is very sterile when its first produced and contains minerals. i would be very grateful if a friend was willing to piss on a dirty wound in combat or survival i couldnt clean myself.
Lets talk about defoiliation, how can ANY one suggest that removing part of a plant that evolution has decided is needed for best results will increase the amount of flowers?
because evolution was designed to work with the awesome 'planet melting' power of the sun. those light rays have traveled zillions of meters through cosmic dust clouds, atmosphere, pollutants and god knows what else. i think it can penetrate a few leaves
So some of you are suggesting that removing these leaves would help in some way?
Defoliation works. its a myth thats officially CONFIRMED, right here at 420 magazine. Its no longer a question of if it works, but when to do it, how much to do, how often, what size leaves, what distance from stem e.t.c
This is where i differ from the mainstream (see that, we even have mainstream and fringe practitioners) defoliators in that im a f'kin savage. i remove every leaf as if it was a parasite and i do so as soon as i can get my snips in without damaging where the bud site will form. MY findings is that by doing so, you trigger those nodes to push out sooner and more often than not become a fully fledged side branch. the only leaves that are safe from my snips are the top 2 pairs, the ones that are barely formed and the ones that are currently forming. this is just to make sure that water can transpire from somewhere.
Once again by removing the storage space for the nutes there is NO WAY that this could "increase" yeild. Sounds like removing half your stomach would mean you have twice as much energy?
i dont see it as a stomach, more like pouches of fat....and im pretty sure a fat person would have more energy (read as ability to perform work and excersise) if they had massive lipo.
Jonny
Honestly I was thinking the same thing and I can see that growing an autoflower although a quick way to get bud (ok to pretty good bud) it isn't very satisfying on the grow side.. Because of the fact that I do feel very limited on being able to do anything with it
I've always wondered what is the hempy method.. I can't seem to find more on it on the net??
no i have no experience in outdoor growing at all, not anything decent anyway. dont get me wrong if u have something that works for u thats great but as i said its not for me and i think for now at least its not something id be interested in trying again. as the saying goes, if it aint broke.....
