I'd have to disagree. The strains I'm running have responded favorably to high pruning in flower. Thinning the canopy allows the mid and lower level buds to fill out considerably more. I'm running multiple thousand watters close to the canopy, so penetration power is optimum.
A person just has to sit here for a moment and think what is actual purpose of plants, animals our life period,,,, Then put it all into perspective they all want to multiply as much as possible ..
now there is a difference between pruning and defoilating a plant pruning is done to control your plant and also to produce more yield but this is done in early veg state .
There is no Scientific study to prove defoilating increase yield but there is on the bad effects of it such as stressing a plant , slowing growth rates as well as hermie traits, and a lot more . Now with that said
each growers room style strains are different, marijuana has been around longer then humans yet one only has to think marijuana wants to only reproduce and as much as possible Evolution ???? how animals surrounding areas change as well as plants change DNA changes so it will survive that is embedded in everything so with that said you could only think that a MJ plant would drop its leaves to produce more when in fact it doesn't , so defoilating is thrown out the door on this one
Think of a MJ plant and tomato plant as brother and sister and and what do we do to tomato plants we remove them sucker's and why so that all plants energy gets used up in producing mid to upper quality product
MJ is no Different in order to produce the most yield and the best quality product we need to either run lots of power having vetical lighting inbetween plants as well as horizontal if were really worried about lower bud sites other then that
I don't care what anyone says defoilating is NO GOOD PERIOD Why cause your lower bud sites your so worried about never get the proper lighting anyways defoiled or not cause from light source to lower plant diminishes quickly End result LARF fluffy B Grade product that only turns into shake eventually
so lets be realistic here peeps Yield is determined by light source and a canopy with as many bud sites in that light source get rid of all them lower sucker buds growing cause they are only hash material dried there light underdeveloped buds that took away plants energy in producing the money making pot when you buy a bag of weed you want decent buds or small light fluffy shake ??????
I have grown tons of weed take it from experience there is no scientific study proving defoilating yields more i have defoiled and it FAILED take my word peeps first pic defoiled plant yield was used for making hash period lost time lost money second pic undefoiled harvest dried buds all nice size quality and money maker so dont waste your time and money defoilating
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