Hey Honey Let's Go Outdoors

From the previous week I read a lot about defoliation. How to do it, when to do it, where to do it, etc. The plants in the first place where very bushy. You couldn't see the pot when looking from top and even when you looked from sides, you couldn't see through. Bottom parts of the plants were in shade all the time and now I see that I should've done this long time ago. Small branches that were growing on the most bottom parts will never develop and had to be removed. As a first time grower this is something to take a note of and apply it for the next season. Some articles say that outdoor plants don't need defoliation as the sunlight is very strong and will penetrate through the canopy. Well I must disagree on this in my case as even on middle parts of branches bud sites look pathetic and branches are small, like 1-2cm. Even the leaves are undeveloped. When looking from inside everything looks like it was in 4-5th week of veg state. Very sad. I finally got some courage and defoliated plants and I did this at the start of the week. Big leaves were removed first, followed by any laves that were sitting on top of bud sites or were overlapping other leaves. At the end of the defoliation there were so many leaves removed, when clumped up it was a size a of a volley ball. After checking the plants they all looked very nice and see through. I didn't go all aggressive and strip the plants bare like some do in indoor grow. Big fan leaves were left alone on the top parts of the plants and I left some sparingly on the outer side on the mid and lower parts of the branches. Honestly, I didn't know what to expect and how the plants will react but after few days plants bushed out again and buds sited exploded. After all that defoliation plants didn't show any signs of stress and continued to flower. At the end of the week plants looked like I didn't do anything. They were bushy again. I'm having an itch to plant this strain next year directly into ground and see what kind of monster it will grow into. Feeding stayed the same with increase of Bio-Bloom to 2ml/l I feed the plants twice a week with 2.5l of solution and ph water between feeding. That's it for this week and I'll see you in the next one.