lilroach
Well-Known Member
ya prune the top part not the bottom part yet. if you do it right you won't have to clean up any underbuds.
depends on strain too.
but ya i usually take the fan leaves out when i get 8 levels of nodes. or 16 nodes total. i will top it and remove ALL generation 1 fan leaves. I've done this with tons of strains and some take a day or 2 to recover but most dontr really mind and start getting fat the next day!
the LA dom phenos i got respond to this a little tricky because they will throw you so many tops in a very small area with HUGE fan leaves. just gotta keep pruning.
as an experiment i took off 95% of the fan leaves on a plant. pretty much every leaf that wasn't halfway in a bud. i did this at 2 weeks in flower and the plant did fine. she was making new leaves and stretching other leaves to fill in all the spots if she needed too but basically i got an even yield over the whole plant. from cola to underbuds they were all well developed
I find it interesting that there was no negative effects from pulling so many leaves. As I understand it, the leaves are both the lungs and solar panels to a plant. We spend so much time amping up the wattage, lumens, hang mylar, fim, lst, and top to get more light to the plant......to take off the receptors....leaves....for what gain I don't know....doesn't make sense to me.
Even the last days of flower, the plant is sucking up and using a ton of energy. Choking that off seems counter-productive.