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Can I defoliate?
mark4686started grow question 5y ago
She's in week 8 and I am wondering if I can heavily defoliate her because she's full of leaves but I also don't want to slow down flowering process since I don't have much time before I flush her and harvest..any suggestion? Thank you and take a look to the diary for other pics:)
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Experimentgreenanswered grow question 5y ago
Hey Mark,
Your flowers are looking nice, and coming along great. Looking at the diary it doesn't look like it's too bushy so I'd only do a mild defoliation if any. Look and see if there's any leaves that are really blocking the light from a bud, if it can be tucked out of the way you might want to do that first, then if not remove just a few leaves that are in the way. Usually when i defoliate a bushy plant i still try to only remove about 20% of the leaves because the few that lost too many leaves took a long time maturing and just weren't as healthy.
Happy flowering.
Chucky324answered grow question 5y ago
Hello. In your future grows try to trim and take leaves in weeks 3 and 5 of flowering. You've left it too long. A minor trim now and then leave it alone till harvest. Good Luck. Chuck.
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