Should you cut off fan leaves during flowering

[Afka]

So much garbage misinformation on these forums, bullshit non-researched 2cents tidbits from morons who don't understand how plants work.



Keep pulling off those leaves which you spent all that time GROWING DURING VEG.


How the hell can pulling leaves "not affect yield" and improve taste?


INTERNET RAGE.

 

[Metalarc Lemon]

then why do the commercial greenhouses in holland prune? to lower their profits for the fun of it? or is from years of trial & error?

 

[Acuity]

Yes everyone, you should remove your leaves during flowering, not just the fan leaves though. Removal of photosynthate storage and production facilities in a plant is key to it's energy intensive flowering development. In fact everyone just remove all the leaves on your plants and you'll get bumper crops that taste like sugared virgins and rainbows. For real yo.

[Insert sarcasm here].

 

[jkmovies]

I just gotta throw my experience out there! I DID cut the big fan leaves off of one of my white widow's in my last crop of 15 plants. The result was terrible. Very small/airy buds. The plant suffered bad while all of it's sisters flowered beautifully. I realize that some of you cut your fan leaves with success but this is just my story and personally I will NEVER touch them again unless they're over 50% dead already.

Even with 50% dead, just cut off the dead part and keep the 50% that's alive. Leaves are there for a purpose. Go with nature.

 

[knallmeannn]

then why do the commercial greenhouses in holland prune? to lower their profits for the fun of it? or is from years of trial & error?

Pruning and completely eleviating fan leaves is 2 different things. Cutting off and pruning leaves that are next to dead is fine, but why would you cut off leaves that obviously grow for a reason?! I'm sure the Cannabis plant wouldn't grow those if they weren't needed. Simple fact, as someone stated before, let nature run it's course.

 

[knallmeannn]

So much garbage misinformation on these forums, bullshit non-researched 2cents tidbits from morons who don't understand how plants work.



Keep pulling off those leaves which you spent all that time GROWING DURING VEG.


How the hell can pulling leaves "not affect yield" and improve taste?


INTERNET RAGE.

I couldn't agree more. Kids and their forums.

 

[sambo020482]

lol

i totally get the not cutting the fan leaves off cause they are there for a reason etc, but have seen plants with 50-75% of large fan leaves cut off b4 flowering yield very well in soil and the bottom buds i dont beleive would have got as big had the large fan leaves stayed.

i personally wont be cutting any fan leaves off my grow but ive seen it done with good results.

 

[dwaenekd2]

if you grow indoors its definitely not in nature, obviously. its a controlled artificial environment, so the plant is gowing to do things slightly different than in "nature". example, they get much more light in the artificial environment so they"re gonna put out more leaves, but the plant may not be able to use all the energy the leaves are making and in that case the bud would be small because the thick leaf foliage would always shade them. you should expirement with your plants to find the right ratio of leaves to bud, and remember that everyones grow room is different so you will have to see what works for you. don't listen to the narrow minded morons that think its one way or the other.

 

[mary jane 123]

man i worked myself to death pruning fan leaves. my first indoor grow, i stopped about 2 weeks ago. i hope i didn't do any major damage.

 

[charwhite]

man i worked myself to death pruning fan leaves. my first indoor grow, i stopped about 2 weeks ago. i hope i didn't do any major damage.

Well I'm in the 5th week of flowering and this is my first grow ever. i just removed a lot of fan leaves that started turning yellow, or the stems were purple. I did this because my 8 White Widow plants were to big for the space so I have massive buds on the all the tops of the plants and underneath the tops of buds and fan leaves the buds were a big as my fingernail, so i removed these leaves so light could get to them for the next 3 weeks.
ANY THOUGHTS ON MY DECISION TO DO THIS??

 

[Whey2Sly]

Well i always thought that to keep ur leaves till i took a few plant science classes and was told that a mature leaf almost stops growing and the procedures in that leaf slow way down.So that has me thinken Out with the old In with the new or younger leaves since there working alot harder and making the plant grow more??????????????????

 

[mrdrywall]

guess this is one thats never gonna be settled to each his own my fan leaves on 1 ak 48 were fuckin huge at the bottom blockin air light so i cut em seems to be growing better now my other ak s didnt have that prob so i left it to nature

 

[i need help I'm rookie]

I never cut them off unless they are curled up and changed color if they are in the way of something move them tuck it somewhere it isnt in the way. Cutting shuts the plant down for up to 24 hours sometimes longer

 

[midnightoker]

NEVER!

Let the plant do its thing....

 

[Griffin285]

Ive trimmed up my leaves just to make everything a little cleaner and to have more light reach the buds. Some people say this is bad and will stunt growth. Ive never noticed anything bad though. Honeslty as long as you dont go too crazy it wont make that much of a difference. You might as well just leave them on though.

If your really worried about stunting the plant give it some super thrive after you trim it up.

I dont think theres anything wrong with doing some light trimming but i could be wrong idk. Id like to see someone grow 2 clones, trim one of them, and compare yields in the end.

 

[dl604]

i have half my crop trimed half not, i will update u guys

 

[Growzaa]

What are fan leaves? Im a newbie!

 

[solidstuff]

ya you could let them be like as if it were natural. why not at the same time leave the males because it is natural. Cut off large fan leaves, sometimes twice during flower

 

[runninupinya]

From what I have been reading on this site, I would not cut any healthy leaves. What I would do however, is to do a staggered harvest. In doing this, you can clip the mature buds along with the fan leaves(usually closer to the light source), and that will let the lower buds/fan leaves mature in their own time with more direct light.

 

[Rusty Crutch]

From what I have been reading on this site, I would not cut any healthy leaves. What I would do however, is to do a staggered harvest. In doing this, you can clip the mature buds along with the fan leaves(usually closer to the light source), and that will let the lower buds/fan leaves mature in their own time with more direct light.

I do the same thing. I'll crop all of the main colas in week 8 and then take the rest of the plant in week 10. I have gotten almost as much bud from the second pick as I've gotten from the first. I ruined my last crop by taking fan leaves off, now I only pick off the dead or dying leaves. Supercropping and LST is a good way to uncover lower budsites. I've started supercropping my current crop with great results.