6) Green House / Super Lemon Haze Auto

Defoliation week had arrived! If you read my diaries for some reason, you'll know that the last few harvests left me a true-believer of what I call top-down defoliation. I'm not sure if this is what my strategy is officially called out there on the streets. But I do know that my strategy intends to be the opposite of lollipopping. I don't like throwing away buds. Buds are the point of all this, in my mind. So I'm not a fan of lollipopping. With a plant as "small" as the ones I grow, it should be easy enough over time to make sure that there is enough good airspace around the bud for breathing, light and humidity management. The real benefit of my defoliation strategy, in my belief, is that it permits light to reach down deep into the plant and eventually create fully formed buds up the entire branch!!! Woo! Exciting!! 😝 Its sort of a larf-busting strategy. My last three grows have had remarkably very little larf - without lollipopping. I've been quite happy with the yield and bud development lately. So major defoliations occurred on Days 57 and 58. After that, I would just keep removing leaves as necessary from time to time. And as the name implies, I first try to remove all the big leaves with big stems from the canopy. Then around the plant. Then leaves with smaller leaves with smaller stems, all around the plant. And this continues until I leave leaves with what seems like no stems at all. And the real reason to leave these leaves behind is simply that removing them would hurt the pistils on the buds - and you don't want to do that. Do you? Didn't think so... 😄 Buds had started to develop this week and the stretch ended. She was the perfect height, almost. 11.5 inches. She stretched WAY more than I thought she would. I thought this was gonna be a kinda smallish plant like my first Wedding Cake and my Lemon Pie. She ended up being sort of the size of my 2nd Wedding Cake, which portended well for yield. We would see.... Maybe?