PJ Diaz
Well-Known Member
I personally don't care what people do with their plants, but personally I do remove leaves twice in flower. Once around 3 weeks in, once stretch has stopped, and again a few weeks later once the buds start fattening up. I don't claim that it improves growth, but I do know that I can pack more bud shoots in the same space with less risk of mold in late flower. I often remember what my College Horticulture teacher told me in lab one day when we were topping up a bunch of plants while doing a bit of root and top pruning, she said "plants love to be cut and torn apart, it makes them come back stronger". In my real world observations, I have to concur. I don't know how many times my wife has freaked out when I'm pruned a rose bush or lemon tree back too far in her eyes. She always gives me shit, then I tell her "just wait a couple of months, and you'll see". Then a couple months later, she says "I like the way you pruned that back now, it grew back so healthy".