defoliated is a real art when training plants in veg and early flower, a very advance way to control the stretch at all stages, its not bad for the plant if you do it right and i still do it to my plants but don't talk about it on the forums very often because its a skill very hard to learn and even harder to explain
The problem is the fan leaves supply the attached shoot energy so trimming or cutting the right fan leaves can slow down growth on the shoots and reduce node spacing if you do it right
you can remove or cut fan leave to slow any single shoot on the plant giving you complete control over the plant growth so you get the node space closer and the perfect canopy shape
removing loads of random fan leaves covering bud sites will just mess the plant up, defoliated fan leaves because it covers lower bud sites will not help and will result in airy buds.
sativa plants have small fan leaves and do most the stretch in flower so there very hard to train, the canopy with a sativa plant will never be full and reduce light getting to the lower canopy anyway
you have a very good canopy shape filled with long shoots but a very low amount of leaves that is needed to really make the colas full and long
The tips of the leaves are burnt so i would give the plants a good flush and then feed the plants at half strength and some mag/cal, so you flush any crap build up out of the root mass and give them a good feed at the same time
they will pull around in a few days
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