Welcome @Jahckson, you have a beautiful plant there
What about those aggressive prunings during flowering? Are they effective?
I wonder the same thing, I wonder…
I would suggest leaving more foliage next time. I think you could have a better yield with more foliage. Fan leaves are the solar panels for plants. The more you have, to an extent, the more you get. Schwassing will only work correctly with a near-perfect environment, nutrients, and lighting. If one factor is off the entire crop could be in jeopardy of failing. It’s a risk that could supercharge the growth or stunt it severely. Happy growing
schWazzing ? Removing da fan leaves at specific stages to grow an extra 3 lbs per lamp?
Sounds heat intensiVe
heat? why heat? I saw people, like here in the post, who leave the branches without leaves, I didn’t know it had a name. Now I looked it up with Google’s AI and it says: "It is an advanced technique that induces very high controlled stress to the plant. It is not recommended for beginners or for autoflowering varieties. It requires the plant to be completely healthy and for the grower to provide immediate intensive nutrition to aid its recovery after pruning. It also clarifies that there are only two prunings.
- First day of flowering: Just before changing the light cycle (or at the beginning of bloom) all large leaves located below the two or three upper nodes are removed.
Here it is very clear, below the 3 main nodes, so the new satellite leaves, the highest ones which are the most efficient at processing light, should NOT be removed; it’s not about leaving the plant without satellite leaves. - Day 20 of flowering (beginning of the third week): Once the plant has regrown and stretched, the massive defoliation is repeated to clear the developing buds again.
The plants in this post do not adapt to this technique; all their leaves were removed. And once it’s clear that leaves should be left from the 3rd upper node upwards, it makes much more sense to me, as does the clarification about intensive feeding. Clearly, if the plant doesn’t have lower leaves to feed on its reserves, if you don’t provide them separately, it starves, or directly loses energy and doesn’t fatten up.
I believe doing it well is too complex, and that it could only be done with a variety or strain that you know well and control perfectly how much food they consume, deficiencies, and start calculating how much to reduce so as not to over-fertilize since they have less foliage.
I’m not sure how much sense it makes to do this technique. I don’t know if anyone has done it well? Is it worth it? As @Demonrage75 says, and I understand why, it would only work under perfect conditions, where you control not only vpd but also the metabolic rate of the strain. Too much for me.
With the Schwazzing method, one can perform another radical defoliation on day 45. @DeAzNuTz has experience with that.
I hope you read us @DeAzNuTz to see if you’d like to clarify for us how it’s done and the results 
hehehe Itz heat intensive for da plantz. Not the grow. After da trim itz like throwing them in an oven.
Rhetorically, we should drop de temperature a few degrees before defoiliating for a week or 2 for da plants to adjust to da new hair cut.
Still. When it comes to internal plant food supplies without actually measuring real metrics and testing to see how much of what is where in da plant itz just a guessing game 
Da next step would be micro-shwassing, where instead of taking off a whole leaf we just snipp leaflets - one finger from da 7 finger palm…or just da tips.
Thanx for laying out everything so well.
Heat? I didn’t mention heat. Yes schwassing is very highly controlled stress that could make or break the grow. I’ve tried it a couple of times but didn’t see an advantage to doing it. I definitely lollipop my plants before and during the first week or so of flower. Anything below my net goes. This definitely will work to help with your yield. I prefer to fimm over topping, you can get upwards of 4 branches instead of 2.
Yes, sorry friend, the answer was for @dheudeudo who, if you look above, mentioned the heat, but it wasn’t literally heat, I just wanted to refer to your explanation and ended up answering you, I’m sorry.
You’re good. I went back and read my post a few times to see if I did mention it somewhere. Now it makes sense. We’re all still learning things every day of our lives. So there is no reason to apologize.