I very heavily defoliated my last grow at 3 weeks into flower and it has been my best grow to date around 1.25 grams per watt and this was after pulling one of the 4 plants at 2 weeks into flower as it was a mutant and not developing. I continued to defoliate the odd leaf throughout the rest of flowering.
I will defoliate every grow from now on. I also super cropped right up untill week 2 of flower.
I maybe wouldn't be to heavy handed at week 4 through.
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