@MovingOn wrote ;
“This girl has some really wide leaves. I worry that the larger ones are shading out the lower part of the plant ... “
When light comes only from the ”12 noon” position, interior leaves can suffer. Consider placing lights at a 10 and 2 o’clock position to combat that.
But if you’re talking about what is so commonly called ‘getting light to the buds’, as one medical man to another, I’d like to debunk/clarify the widespread belief that flowers require direct light to grow to their potential.
We are all in agreement that leaves are the solar panel of plants.
If you powered your home with solar energy, you’d know it would be silly to place your TV and refrigerator where they will receive direct sunlight - they can’t use it. They use the energy collected by the solar panels.
Same for cannabis flowers. They need space and fresh air to grow, but the calices themselves (the resin filled sacs that in numbers make up the buds) do not photosynthesize. Direct light to flowers doesn’t assist growth.
That’s a big statement to take in, as it claims that a common belief is not true. But it’s only a common belief among cannabis growers. Horticulturalist, botanists and real farmers know this simple truth that continues to elude most weed growers.
Defoliate with judgement. To strip a plant of most leaves is sure to lessen yield. Cannabis adapts and snaps back and the grower thinks ‘Oh yeah she loved being stripped. The buds were awesome”. No doubt. But she was desperate. She’d have created more flowers had she been pampered.
It’s a goofy science still because we have had little in the way of organized methodology. That’s changing quickly. Happy growing. Enjoy your harvest.
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