I'm in week 3 of flower and for the last 2 weeks Iv'e been removing the lower branches and removing all the crap that doesn't need to be there. Over the last few days bud production has exploded. Does it hurt the plant to remove the big water leaves that are covering bud sites during this phase of flower? I just don't want to stress the plant unnecessarily. thanks. First grow fyi
removing fan leaves in flower
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Resinhound
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Oh God here we go again....
Cyrus420
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Haha. I did this an regretted it. None of my plants with the removed leafs have grown as well as what I have seen users do on here and they don't remove theirs.
More light isn't better try it for yourself, leave the fan leafs. The difference in your harvest will be noticeable.
More light isn't better try it for yourself, leave the fan leafs. The difference in your harvest will be noticeable.
LegalizeNature420
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Don't remove. Those leaves are full of good stuff for your buds. Matter of fact, don't trim anything else off your plant. Just back up and chill out.
dandyrandy
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Watchin
tropicalcannabispatient
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fan leaves are the light panels of your plants., only remove bottom grow like pop corn nugs but not in medium or top of plant
Enigmatic Ways
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Before you remove them try to tuck them, if that isn't possible removing a couple of fan leaves won't hurt the plant but go easy only remove what you feel is absolutely necessary.
jeepster1993
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When I asked this question, the way I got it was...
Follow the leaf back to the stem, is there something growing out of that node? That leaf is the solar panel for that node.
Follow the leaf back to the stem, is there something growing out of that node? That leaf is the solar panel for that node.
kiwipaulie
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This question always creates a stir, I've had strains that love being stripped back and some not so much. I recently had to strip some out, but that was more to reducing the humidity in certain areas, ie a whole lot of fans clumped together is worse that there being less, because they start to sweat.
If you have two plants of the same strain. Trim one back and leave the other and see which one is the best in the end.
I have this a number of times and on some I have def got more off the trimmed ones and a couple other strains have just bombed on yield.
If you have two plants of the same strain. Trim one back and leave the other and see which one is the best in the end.
I have this a number of times and on some I have def got more off the trimmed ones and a couple other strains have just bombed on yield.
Airwalker16
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Not true at all. My under screen larf gets all taken off and those branches stretch way up past the screen up in to the canopy. They don't need a leaf to do it
Before you cut off leaves to allow light to buds, you should know how efficient the buds are at photosynthesis, temp. regulation, hormone production, and gas exchange. Cutting off random leaves probably isn't going to make your plant explode in growth.
Kinda the same way cutting off an Olympic sprinters leg would make him a shit load lighter, probably not a whole lot faster.
Airwalker16
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K hopefully this puts an end to this stupid debate. STRIP ALL leaves. It's a great practice.
http://www.threealight.com/project/three-a-light-commercial-3/
http://www.threealight.com/project/three-a-light-commercial-3/
I doubt it
Airwalker16
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Watch the video my friend.
explosive82
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Last time i checked the buds on top don't make food for the plant
Its like taking the engine out of your car before you try to start it
I personally wouldn't recommend it
Its like taking the engine out of your car before you try to start it
I personally wouldn't recommend it
I did. This debate has been goin on for years I doubt a 2 minute video on youtube is gonna end it. The video shows one side no comparison and no details so what exactly does it prove my friend? The video shows all leaves being cut off and then growing back, I'm not sure what side you're trying to prove.
Airwalker16
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That the entire branch is one huge cola, uniformely, on every single branch of every single plant.