L.S.D. 5 Plants from 5 Seeds.

Hello. I've done a defoliation and added another 430 watt light > I have a light mover that has a 430 watt light. It moves back and forth in a straight line. It pauses at the end for a minute then returns. I find this is good enough to grow in veg and the first 3 weeks of flower. The light mover has a chain which holds the light that I can move up as the plants grow. Then I hit the plants with double light. The bud sites are exposed by defoliation, and the more light the bud sites gets the bigger the buds gets. > Defoliation- I have found that to lessen the stress I put on the plant at the, in flower, defoliation I take half of what I want 7 to 4 days before go to flowering. I let the plants heal for 3 weeks and then I do my last defoliation. Now I take all the branches off the lower 1/3 of the plant. I clear the middle of big fan leaves and small sucker branches. The longer branches will have been pushed up in the tomato cages and are coming out higher up. My light set up could be different than yours. I have 2 points of light I defoliate to, with a digital light your defoliation might be a bit different. I want you to take what you need from my diary and others and make you own style in the years to come :) Now I concentrate on exposing the bud sites from the leaves. Rule of thumb is: anything that is growing down gets cut off. Any leaves or small sucker leaves in the middle 1/3 that are growing down get cut off. we're going up from here, anything going down is wasting energy. I mostly leave the top 1/3 alone except for taking off leaves that are blocking light and tying back the top branches from the hot lights (there is a 3 foot burning area around the HPS lights. The more leaves you take off at this point the longer the shock will last. You need to find a balance of leaving enough leaves on for good photosynthesis to occur for the plant to make big buds and taking of enough leaves to allow enough light to the bud area. As the buds and small leaves of the flowering area grow the plant will increase photosynthesis over time till the ripening stage. Good enough for now. Chuck.