Ok it is flush time for all my plants. They have about 2 to 3 weeks left. So here is what I do in the summer to get extra mj to cook with or use for hash, oils, lotions etc.This is for inside grows.
First you train the heavily for 8 to 9 weeks. During this time nake sure to remove all leaves that block any growth tips no matter how small. You want to keep every growth tip you can no matter how small.
At the flip defoliate by just unblocking the growth tips again. At 3 weeks after the flip defoliate to unblock all growth tips but no more. Do not lolipop the plant or remove any buds or growth tips no matter how small.
Then here is where all this oddness comes into play. Two to 3 weeks before harvest, I do it when I start the 2 week flush, defoliate heavily. You want no buds touching each other. You want no leaves touching each other, and you want all the plants getting wind. I have 6 fans in my one 4x4 tent atm. All of this is just to prevent bud rot or mold.
Now the extra weed is now in your hands. When you lolipop you will get alot of popcorn bud. When you defoliate you will get leaves with trichomes galore. Save this they are pretty stout if you have run out of smoke. You can smoke it all. Just think big blunts. But I make hash or make caps out of the popcorn bud. This is also when I take my cuttings. Since it's in flower I remove the bud and it takes about 5 days longer to get on track but works.
Today I did the autos and 1 of the photo plants. It takes a very long time to do lots of plants. I'll have help tomorrow. Here are pics of before and after. Some are repeats of above just didnt want you guys to have to scroll back and forth.
Before
After
Before
After
After
Now no worries about bud rot or mold as long as the fans are going. And the smaller bids are getting full sun so will double in size in 2 weeks. In the winter I dont do this because the humidity is low. Next I'll post the start of the photos which are real easy to see even though none are finished.
Before
The pic below is after look how much was removed. If I had done this at week 3 after flip I would loathe out on 7 ounces of useable material already. And about 12 more between leaves and popcorn on 4 plants plus the back of that one. And now the plant will go into survival/hurry up mode and make more bud than normal. At least it has worked for me.
After
After
You can see before below and after above. The amount of popcorn bud per plant on defol is about 2 to 3 ounces. Will probably be another half ounce when done. But most of the buds that are still left will turn into respectable size buds
Before
they still have at least a day or two of work to go. I have gotten 35 clones, and popcorn bud when dried would be about 48 grams. The trichome covered leaves would be about 100 grams dry. I suspect the popcorn from the whole tent will be 12 ounces dried. The leaves alot more. I can make 100s of clones if I wanted to.
But I freeze the mj to use for hash or other things.
Anyways that works for me. Only one person teaches that and he is on one of the alternate defoliating pages on GWE. I just changed it to harvest the lower stuff and defoliate at flush on my own. And 12 ounces of popcorn is alot. That's why I dont count it in my total. It wouldnt be fair. I wanna win with top shelf bud. Oh here is a picture showing the height of the photos.
And here are the popcorn buds I leave of they now have light. They turn into respectable buds.