Ok guys, I`ve decided to experiment a bit more seriously with defoliation, I`ve seriously stripped the majority of fan leaves off of 5 of the Arma`s. This change of mind was due in part to reading I`ve done here on it and a recent look at an Arma plant that a mate has grown, (bloody well!) where he`s relentlessly stripped it of its fan leaves.
I`ve taken most of the fan leaves off of 3 Arma`s in one row and 2 Arma`s in the other row, leaving the rest with what I`d call essential fan leaf removal. I`m not sure how many leaves to strip from the Grapefruit, being a stretchier plant with longer internode spacing. I think they`ll defo need some fans removing. I need to get up on a chair or something so I can look down from above over the Gf`s to get a better sense of how much to strip to allow light penetration. I dont think I`ll go for stripping most of the leaves from the Gf`s, and more likely to go for a more removing leaves that are seriously obscuring lower bud from the light, its getting to be more and more like a jungle though and will need tending to soon, today or Friday.
A couple of Arma`s with the fans pretty much stripped
Here the nearer two plants have most of their fans left on, just selective leaf removal, whereas the furthest 3 have nearly all fans stripped. I`ll try and get some better pics taken in a couple of days.
I think I may have slowed down and confused the plants a little with my lighting error for one night, the buds on my plants dont look so big at the tops as my mate`s in the growtent, though mine do have tighter internode spacing. Hopefully I wont have done too much damage here and they,`ll catch up. They`re definitely advancing still, but may have slowed a little, I`m not really sure if its affected them at all, my mate`s were vegged for longer filling out the screen as they`re scrogged.
Thinking of going for Bud Candy as a carb supplement for bloom, Shhh seems to have had fair results from it in his test from what I can see in his thread, seems to be awol at the mo tho. ;-)
Cheers, Toke ;-)
I`ve taken most of the fan leaves off of 3 Arma`s in one row and 2 Arma`s in the other row, leaving the rest with what I`d call essential fan leaf removal. I`m not sure how many leaves to strip from the Grapefruit, being a stretchier plant with longer internode spacing. I think they`ll defo need some fans removing. I need to get up on a chair or something so I can look down from above over the Gf`s to get a better sense of how much to strip to allow light penetration. I dont think I`ll go for stripping most of the leaves from the Gf`s, and more likely to go for a more removing leaves that are seriously obscuring lower bud from the light, its getting to be more and more like a jungle though and will need tending to soon, today or Friday.
A couple of Arma`s with the fans pretty much stripped
Here the nearer two plants have most of their fans left on, just selective leaf removal, whereas the furthest 3 have nearly all fans stripped. I`ll try and get some better pics taken in a couple of days.
I think I may have slowed down and confused the plants a little with my lighting error for one night, the buds on my plants dont look so big at the tops as my mate`s in the growtent, though mine do have tighter internode spacing. Hopefully I wont have done too much damage here and they,`ll catch up. They`re definitely advancing still, but may have slowed a little, I`m not really sure if its affected them at all, my mate`s were vegged for longer filling out the screen as they`re scrogged.
Thinking of going for Bud Candy as a carb supplement for bloom, Shhh seems to have had fair results from it in his test from what I can see in his thread, seems to be awol at the mo tho. ;-)
Cheers, Toke ;-)