Day 22 defoliation is done, and the tent reloaded with a lot of breathing room and space to flop a bit as they bud up. I ended up taking all red stemmed fans, as well as most leaves with stems over an inch long, and also removed a few little vining branches and lower budsites to focus all the energy upwards. I’ve never done this before so rigorously, but I’m really looking forward to the tent full of frosty spears instead of leaves. Been getting real sick of popcorn trim jail and having that much leaf mass in the tent pushing humidity up in flower.
I see a lot of people getting great results at growing almost all A-grade buds this way, and I’d rather pull eight or ten perfect dry ounces of potent tops than a pound of mixed goods at this point. Hopefully I’ll end up with a pound of dank and this will be the level up I’ve been trying for in my growing techniques. Gave the girls a strong drink of the old General Organics BioThrive Bloom (2-4-4 plus 0.5% mag and 1% sulfur), the last liquid nutes I expect to use in flower, to help them bounce back in the next few days, besides that topdressing that should just be kicking now after a few weeks. Everything I’ve read that seemed knowledgeable said that with this technique you need to push high nutes and micros immediately afterwards to get the most positive effect and bounce-back from the stressing, I’ll be giving them a SEA-90 foliar tonight at lights off and some Mr Fulvic in tomorrow’s water.
The aftermath, headed back to the nitrogen cycle:
