GrassCity Sucks
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It's a question I haven't seen really answered, and, since I was thinking about it, I figured I'd put it out for discussion.
Mind you, it might have been answered definitively, but fuck sifting 1 million posts looking for it
Most people will say that removing shade-leaves from developing bud-sites is a bad thing, since they're the food factories for the plant, but I've never seen the question posed as to whether or not the calyxes themselves produce sugars for the plant.
An answer to this question would mean an end to the debate: "Trimming fan-leaves from buds to allow more light in is BAD for the plant" vs "It allows greater light penetration right around the buds themselves.
So someone, anyone?
My assumption, is that although the buds themselves DO produce sugars via photosynthetic processes, they wouldn't be as productive as fan-leaves, BUT that being said, with that much extra light permeating the bud-sites, and the single bud-leaves that grow-out of them, that it may just be a fallacy that trimming leaves is bad for bud production.
Mind you, it might have been answered definitively, but fuck sifting 1 million posts looking for it
Most people will say that removing shade-leaves from developing bud-sites is a bad thing, since they're the food factories for the plant, but I've never seen the question posed as to whether or not the calyxes themselves produce sugars for the plant.
An answer to this question would mean an end to the debate: "Trimming fan-leaves from buds to allow more light in is BAD for the plant" vs "It allows greater light penetration right around the buds themselves.
So someone, anyone?
My assumption, is that although the buds themselves DO produce sugars via photosynthetic processes, they wouldn't be as productive as fan-leaves, BUT that being said, with that much extra light permeating the bud-sites, and the single bud-leaves that grow-out of them, that it may just be a fallacy that trimming leaves is bad for bud production.
