Major Defoliation

I stripped the plants down very heavily last night. I took the clones off them then went through and defol'd real hard. I lollipopped them a bit, taking off a lot of the under canopy. The middle of the canopy had too much competition and tons of small leaves. I'm hoping with less competition they will start to shoot some larger fan leaves out.

Bare and sad

Things were looking quite bare and a bit sad post defol.

I took off more than most people would be comfortable taking off I think, but I am going with my gut a bit here and hoping the spare room will help them stretch out a bit.

Node spacing

You can see how intense the node spacing is on these plants. I'm going to have a lot of colas when I finally flower it. The plan is to now scrog next weekend finally, and take them into flower a week later.