Double Grape

Fighting the urge to trim into the canopy to get more light to the lower bud sites. At the end of the day these are living things and spending their whole life in pain kind of sucks! Maybe happy plants will yield more? These existential questions cross my mind and I put the pruning scissors away. The very next day - After watching some defoliation videos one starts to feel like an absentee parent by not chopping some leaves. I gave each one a good look over and removed any leaves it was letting go (and only a few more that were blocking bud sites in the canopy. Had to do some more LST. This time on the most underdeveloped one. Took this opportunity to rotate her so the underdeveloped buds will be directly under the light at top of the canopy after she bends that way.