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The stretch was over now. So I spent some time on Day 60 doing something that I think really enjoy as an activity - defoliation. My method at this stage is to only take away leaves with stems (as opposed to leaves coming straight out of bud sites - those get to stay), unless the stems are so small that I can't easily use my fingers to break the stem (fingernails as scissors). Why all the leaf clipping at this stage? Because she's a much smaller plant this time. This was intended to some extent, as I've explained. But since she's so tiny, I thought that the best way to increase the yield of the grow was to skip the lollipop defo and defo from up top in order to permit more light penetration to the lower buds, but earlier in flower this time to give them time to develop in a hearty way. In the last grow (my first grow), I didn't do this type of defo until near the end, and about 1/5 of the results were larf and a good 4 inches of the lower part of the plant were just fully defoliated branches because of lollipop. Pretty wasteful. So I hope this type of defo and no lollipop will improve the efficiency of the plant, allowing for good yields even though she's smaller - a little test I'm doing with this grow. Why not? She's only about 7 inches tall, and she wasn't getting much taller. Not much more to do but watch her grow the buds and look out for signs of stress. Seems the defo might have stressed her a bit as I noticed some reddening of pistils. But the leaves all looked healthy more or less. No signs of heat/light stress like the last grow. And the buds were growing already and quickly! With a good deal of frost on the top buds as well. Amazing smell developing here. The word that keeps coming to mind about the smell is "sweet." Maybe that's how she got the name? Cuz she does smell like "weed cake." That's the best I can describe it. LOL. I had her up at 1.3 EC at the beginning of the week, but I started noticing burnt tips so I pulled back to 1.2. Then after defoliation I pulled back to 1.1 EC. Runoff EC was holding steady at 1.2 - 1.35 EC. Have a great grow day!