I know most advise against defoliating autos. I usually don’t as I consider every leaf a source of food and energy.
However these are hella bushy.
These 2 autoflowers are about 45 days old. Had big pH drop in the soil for 1 week - worked it back up. Flushed and fixed yesterday. That explains the yellowing and dying leaves.
A lot of buds are shaded. I plan to add under canopy bloom lights + UVB last 2 weeks.
Should I defoliate? If so, how do you suggest I go about doing that?
For reference:
The short bushy one is Green Gelato auto by RQS.
Topped 3rd week at the 4th node. And it kept growing vigorously while training down until flower ~10 days later. Come flower, it never stretched (ph, light intensity, stress, who knows.) at least it’s building some bud size!
The taller one is Blue Cheese auto by RQS.
LST’d up until 1st week of flower and then bended a bit more to open up. This one stretched and is now building buds.
11L pots
Biobizz light mix soil
Biobizz nutes
2 x 150W led + red/uv/ir
Temp: 27C
RH: 50-55%
It’s up to you either way you won’t hurt it as long as you don’t take a Lot of leaves all at once if you do it in stages, you’ll be all right. That being said I usually wait until it starts to flower. I’ll take maybe 10 off the bottom every few days cut off any stems that don’t look like they’re gonna do anything and then at 21 days a flower I’ll finish my defol Hope that helps
for comparison, this is a kNomo auto Very bushy and spread out itself I didn’t do this
I wouldn’t bother defoliating. The plant is doing it for you by sucking nutrients out of the old leaves. Just remove the leaves when they are completely yellow and let the plant go.
You might want to increase fertilizer due to the number of yellow leaves you currently have 3 weeks into flower.
I got painted fingernails, and then leaf tip burn. I thought it was overfed with N. I cut down this week… Should i raise it back?
I wouldnt increase they seem fine and growing the yellowing on the bottom leaves are probably calcium magnesium deficiency if you have any id give em some but if you got painted nails keep doing what youre doing it seems to be working just fine
