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Genetics will be a big factor in strech. Also the more you remove down low, the more it will stretch up. There are more nutrients and plant hormones to go around, it sends that directly to top growth. I go pretty extreme with defoliation and lollipop. Anything below 50% gets stripped. Most large leaves get stripped accept the top 3. I do this first thing when i flip, and again at the 3rd week of flower. It puts them into a sorta overdrive, i think possibly because it thinks its getting eaten.

I always like to recommend taking it slow though, if you wana jump in and go for it thats up to you. Id sure hate to give advice and it fs up someones run. I started put stripping out little then more and more every run to get to this point. Plants really seem to respond good to this method.