So I am proposing we have a contest to show growers for real the exact differences in plant growth and yield using either of these techniques: defoliating fan leaves vs. leaving all healthy fan leaves on the plant through harvest.
Entrants must document their plant growth weekly with side-by-side photographs of two identical plants grown from clone in the same conditions for each plant...can be indoors our outdoors.
One plant is defoliated, the other is not. Side by side comparison shots through the growth and flowering cycle are required to compete.
Each plant must be harvested at approximately the same time, and processed exactly as the other plant... but each one must be kept separate, and entire, until final weighing and photos are taken.
This contest will be judged by voting of the site members at the end of the contest...the point being who can run the best experiment with documentation.
Those are my suggested rules, and I'd like to hear your opinions before we get this rolling...
Just think of the education you'll be providing to generations of growers and the honor of being the one to prove, or disprove this theory by scientific methods.
Peace,
~Payaso
Entrants must document their plant growth weekly with side-by-side photographs of two identical plants grown from clone in the same conditions for each plant...can be indoors our outdoors.
One plant is defoliated, the other is not. Side by side comparison shots through the growth and flowering cycle are required to compete.
Each plant must be harvested at approximately the same time, and processed exactly as the other plant... but each one must be kept separate, and entire, until final weighing and photos are taken.
This contest will be judged by voting of the site members at the end of the contest...the point being who can run the best experiment with documentation.
Those are my suggested rules, and I'd like to hear your opinions before we get this rolling...
Just think of the education you'll be providing to generations of growers and the honor of being the one to prove, or disprove this theory by scientific methods.
Peace,
~Payaso