Light Saber W10 Notes
Defoliation has really been working for Light Saber due to her natural tendency to be really bushy. To date I attempted FIMming once but it was ultimately unsuccessful, some LST tie-downs with garden wire during the first month or so, the defoliation has been the main and most affective source of training I've done so far. I'm honestly not sure how else to go about it with a plant as bushy as this, being fairly new at growing still, so for this one I believe I'll just let her grow out during flower pretty untouched and use the time to study up on some methods to deal with this in the future.
I'm working off a wing and a prayer that Light Saber is female, but I don’t actually know that for sure. If I send her into flower and she ends up being a dude, my plan is to send her back into veg and try to get a successful clone or two going to keep a smaller and more manageable version of him on the side while likely culling him. I'm considering the option of mainlining him instead, but with the amount of growth there's been it would be a pretty serious shock to the system, and considering the sensitivities the plant has shown in the past to physical shock, I'm not sure he'd survive.
Ultimately I decided to with stripping the lower branches of growth up to the point you can see in the pictures, then did an LST tie-down while leabeving the top section alone for now.