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Issue #364 - Sunday, April 7, 2019
Dear Fellow Grower,
In today's issue...
- This week, we're breaking down the specifics of a new take on the controversial technique of defoliation: Schwazzing!
- We've been testing out LED grow lights and we've finally updated our website to reflect that! Check out the changes we made and peep a pic of some of our current plants growing under 600W of LED!
- I love trophy pics that tell a story! Check out a 3-piece trophy picture section that shows a sticky path most of us have been on!
Nebula Haze & Sirius Fourside (founders of GrowWeedEasy.com)
"Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous."
~Leonardo da Vinci
What is "Schwazzing" & How Does it Increase Cannabis Yields?
by Nebula Haze
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I recently was asked about the "schwazzing" technique for growing cannabis found in a $500 (yikes!) hardcover book called Three a Light by Joshua Haupt.
"Schwazzing" is a term found in a book called Three a Light by Joshua Haupt. It refers to a specific time sequence of defoliating your plants to increase yields. Here's a time-lapse video showing the technique in action:
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First defoliation at 0:30 (right before switch to flowering)
Second defoliation at 0:38 (3 weeks after switch to flowering)
This isn’t a review of Three a Light as I’ve never read the book (again, it’s $500!) and from what I understand there are more parts to the book besides just schwazzing, but the author of the book does talk about using the schwazzing plant training technique to increase yields indoors. In fact, the author claims this technique can be used to help yield up to 3 lbs of bud from one light, hence the term “Three a
Light.”
So what is schwazzing? What does it mean to “schwazze” your cannabis plant?
As it’s core, schwazzing is a variation of defoliation, a curiously effective technique for increasing cannabis yields indoors. The idea behind defoliation is to remove fan leaves from your plant at specific times. As a result, the plant ends up producing bigger and fatter buds.
Why does defoliation work to increase yields? No one knows for sure why cannabis plants react this way, but I have a few theories.
Plants that have been defoliated early in the flowering stage make bigger, denser buds than leafy cannabis plants
Nebula’s Theories on Why Defoliation (in the Early Flowering Stage) Increases Yields
- Cannabis is a wind-pollinated plant, which means the only buds that would get pollinated are ones exposed to the wind. If you think about that, it kind of makes sense that buds would only develop if exposed to fresh air and a breeze. In the wild, it’s only those buds that would get access to pollen!
- Cannabis spends energy lengthening colas/bud sites instead of maintaining leaves during the “flowering stretch.” When you first switch your cannabis plant over to the flowering stage by changing the light schedule to 12/12, it responds with a dramatic increase in growth known as the “flowering stretch.” Basically, most cannabis strains grow like crazy for the first 2-4 weeks after the switch to 12/12. In fact, plants
can double or even triple in height during this growth spurt. So perhaps if the plant doesn’t have any leaves to focus on, it just puts all that extra “energy” towards bud development.
- Reaction to stress during the flowering stage – Is it possible that intense defoliation causes some sort of defensive reaction during the flowering stage? If a flowering plant gets completely defoliated by bugs in the wild, it could die before it has time to make seeds. Perhaps the plant is responding to this emergency by going into “overdrive” as far as bud production. Just a guess!
Did you know? Cannabis Isn’t the Only Plant!
You may be surprised to learn that cannabis isn’t the only species of plant that rewards growers with increased yields as a result of defoliation. Some commercial crops including cotton need to be defoliated at specific times during the growing process in order to produce the best quality and yields. For various plant species including cannabis, defoliation
takes advantage of natural plant processes to “hack” the plant into growing more bud than it would naturally grow in the wild. Even if we don’t fully understand exactly why the plant reacts the way it does, we can still use this information to our advantage!
On the steps. Get ready to learn how to Schwazze!
Have You Seen Our Page on LEDs?
Cuz It's Great!
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The LED market has changed drastically since Sirius and I first started seeing them almost a decade ago!
They've gotten a lot more complex, not to mention a lot better at the job of growing cannabis.
But it's still imperative to know which ones are good, and which ones are there to karate chop your wallet in half!
(This is a picture of 6 of our current plants growing under 600W of LEDs!)
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"I just wanted to say thank you, I love your website and look forward every week for your emails. Thank you and have a great day"
~Richard
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Trophy Pictures of the Week!
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"Red Dragon from Barney’s Farm. Grown on Cape Cod with T5’s for veg and 600w HPS flower. Super sticky. Super smell and taste. Awesome plant.A real keeper."
~Cape Cod Farmer
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Nebula Haze:
I'll be honest with you, when I first started growing, I struggled. Now, it is my
mission to make it easier for new growers to get started as well as help advanced growers get bigger, better yields with less time and money. We are updating and adding articles every single week and our goal is to eventually build a comprehensive growing resource so anyone and everyone can grow if they want to! If we all share the knowledge there's more buds in the world for everyone :) |
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Sirius Fourside:
Sirius Fourside is a hobbyist grower who has gained the bulk of his experience growing in water as a medium (deep water culture, bubbleponics).
"Growing cannabis can be a relaxing hobby in and of itself, but it also saves you money and keeps you from having to deal with shady characters. Cannabis is much easier to grow than people give it credit for, and growing in water
doesn't increase the difficulty much, if any. But whether you want to grow in water, coco, or a different medium, we'll show you how easy it can be!"
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