Removing fan leaves during flowering week5.
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sallygram
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You only want to remove sick leaves, the green leaves still make sugar for the plant so they are important. When I only had a few plants i would tie healthy leaves to the side to try to let the light get to the middle of the plant, Now I lollipop and get much better results. I also like rotate my plants so the light hits them at different angles.
Jimmy Sparkle
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Exactly, and "tuck" those big leaves down and out of the way but leave them on.
ZaraBeth420
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No, do what IS right and makes your plant healthy and your flowers grow. Many times what "feels right" is so wrong. Do the research, and find out the truth of what IS right, and then implement it. Trust the tried and true.
Or something like that.
AimAim
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Leaves going yellow mean N is being translocated from those leaves to where it is more needed in the plant.
Let them go dead, nutrients are being taken from them, relocated within the plant as needed.
There is nothing more stupid than removing green leaves from growing plants.
Let them go dead, nutrients are being taken from them, relocated within the plant as needed.
There is nothing more stupid than removing green leaves from growing plants.
Uberknot
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To each his or her own I say.....I have seen so many conflicting things about growing over the last 6 months of research that I cannot say 100% one person's way is the right way or not depending on strain and genes and of course flowering time.
Yes you should do some research and have an understanding of your options.
Morriston55
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Removing a few leaves is fine, sometimes just one leaf in the "wrong" spot can get a nice growing bud out of its shade and into the direct light.
You dont need to make the plant look naked though. Even lollipop seems absurd to me for some reason, but I'll probably still try that one grow
You dont need to make the plant look naked though. Even lollipop seems absurd to me for some reason, but I'll probably still try that one grow
claypipe69
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On mine I wait till 6/ 7 sets of true leaves, then the top 3 I trim off really close so the light gets through the plant
AimAim
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Well, translocation is a real thing. Read at least the first paragraph of this article, especially "Leaves are particularly interesting in this regard because they are sinks when they are young and become sources later, when they are about half grown".
Read more: http://www.biologyreference.com/Ta-Va/Translocation.html#ixzz4R8Kfe1tH
Anyway those big green leaves you strip off are carbohydrate sources, not sinks. They are producing the energy that drives the plant, producing it in the big fan leaves and shipping it off to be used elsewhere in the plant, i.e. buds, roots, stem etc.
Light does not have to hit the bud to be used. It's gathered by the fans, converted by photosynthetic magic to carbs, and shipped wherever needed in the plant.
I can see where at times some defoliation might be warrented, like if you have a dense foliage/air flow/mildew problem, or an insect.
Simply my opinion but leave the green alone.
Read more: http://www.biologyreference.com/Ta-Va/Translocation.html#ixzz4R8Kfe1tH
Anyway those big green leaves you strip off are carbohydrate sources, not sinks. They are producing the energy that drives the plant, producing it in the big fan leaves and shipping it off to be used elsewhere in the plant, i.e. buds, roots, stem etc.
Light does not have to hit the bud to be used. It's gathered by the fans, converted by photosynthetic magic to carbs, and shipped wherever needed in the plant.
I can see where at times some defoliation might be warrented, like if you have a dense foliage/air flow/mildew problem, or an insect.
Simply my opinion but leave the green alone.
Uberknot
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Simply put....Nature can be a lot rougher than a closed perfect environment.
Emmanuel Sadiki
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removing healthy fan leaves will stress your plants and ran growth stagnant, besides fan leaves collect sunlight, turn them in to sugars your plant need to thrive, your sugar leaves cannot do what the fan does as they are receptors of the sugars collected by the fan leaves