Defoliation first week into flower?

Normally, it's said to do it in the third week during flowering. However, I also do it once before flowering and then again in the third week... opinions on this vary widely. Many say you shouldn't do it at all. The fact is, though, that it helps against mold. Happy growing!

I would not defoliate in the stretch, rather wait till its over and then you have to defoliate anyways. I do it anyway, but only single leaves and also im an impatient idiot. Good luck!

Your totally fine defoil the 1st week of flower I actually promote it just don't take more then 25% of the fan leaves in one sitting ..... I actually belive that I yeild much more weight when the autoflowers get a weekly defoil .... the more light penetrantion the more light your flowers smaller fan leaves can grab onto and store for flower growth .... if your worried about it only test it on 1 plant and within a few days you'll see that one plant start stretching a little taller and growing at an accelerate pace then the others you didn't defoil .... those plants look healthy so you have no reason not to open her canopy up a bit . If your plants showed signs of issues prior id wait to correct said issue befor a heavy defoil but your good to go man.... clip it snip it and watch her grow

Better do all manipulation after flower stretch is over. You will have way better picture what is what. Its ussually day 16- 21 of flower, depending on strain. I was huge fan of defoliation, but now i do it in totally different way. Take one - two leaves every few days and only those who really block something, not just blocks for your eye ;) You could do it before flip to flower, clean bottoms a bit, expose weaker branches, but now during first week of flower you can only stress them and achieve totally oposite results to any profit ...