12/2019 ILGM - OG Kush

I decided to defoliate the plants on Saturday and tried something different this time to see how the plants react to differing amounts of defoliation. Plants #1 & #2 (rear left and right) got the heaviest defoliation of them all by removing fan leaves from the entire plant except the new growth. Only the large fan leaves were removed from plants #3 & #4. After leaving them be for two days I tied down all nodes to even the canopy out so the new growth can all grow up. I know I said I was going to flip these to flower in 1-2 weeks, last week, but I think I may let them fill in with new growth for possibly another 2-4 weeks depending on how fast they grow. I really want to maximize my yield with this grow so I think keeping them in vegetation for a minimum of two months would really help ensure the plants are strong and dense enough to support a large number of colas. Also, in case some of you are curious about my LST 'technique'... What I did was somewhere between mainlining and regular LST. I waited until the plants had 6 or more nodes, then topped above the 4th node, and removed everything below the 3rd node. The two levels of branching are the 3rd and 4th nodes. I finally added a humidity/temp sensor that I can tie into my control system so I am now able to only turn on the humidifier when necessary.