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Should i defoliate?
Chocolate
started grow question 5y ago
Should i defoliate? there are flowers under big leaves, but these plants are autoflowers and i dont know if this will stress my plants 😞
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Week 6
Techniques. Defoliation
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GMSgrows
answered grow question 5y ago
Just tuck leaves in for now, the last 2 weeks you can remove what you want. Cheers
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