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Hello everyone! So I am doing this cute micro grow and am almost at the end of week 3 of flower. I am wondering if it is even worth it to defoliate the lower budsites and fan leaves since there aren’t that many. The lower ones are very small. Not sure if it’s better to have more bud sites or just bigger and better buds on top. What are yalls thoughts?

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Macky Macky February 11, 2026 4:51 pm

@4tweenie no, those leaves help the plant make food, so dont take them off 🙂


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Beautiful lil plant you got there.  I agree with Mackey 100%.  generally the only time you want to defoliate is to create airflow or when the plant gets bigger to allow more light penetration to lower canopy.  For my regime, I will usually do first defoliation 2 weeks prior to flower, then  another about 3 weeks into flower.  Hope this helps!  Kee p up the good work!


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Hi I agree with the others there it's nice big solar panels. I will defolite on bigger plants for the airflow and I lollypop once I'm 2 weeks into flower. Great work she is looking lovely really impressed with the micro grow. 


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As per the other comments, no need to defoliate here ✌️ Good luck with the rest of the grow 👍


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