FAn LEAVES yes or no!!! triming LETS VOTE!!!

dimebong

dimebong

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Thanks, but it looked like this...... And I had a few suggestions when it happened, was mostly to the older larger leaves midway up the stalk, and some calcium and foliar spraying with epsom kept it from getting worse.
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I had that same problem but it was 2-3 spots max. I bought a gram instead of buying some veg nutes after my cotyledons fell off and that happened. Lucky i found my old nutes from 2005.
 
HotShot7414

HotShot7414

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Grown n Oregon said:
i dont think there is a right or wrong answer to this age old question. ive got good results both ways strain depending. i tend to lean on the no side if i had to pick tho. i trim the botten 1/3 of my plant after vegg..main stalk and each branch so i cut fan and every other kind of leaf off and my ladies do great..no ifs ands or butts about it. i get lazy sometimes and dont cut a f'ing thing off before going into flower and the same thing happens...they still come out great. ive played around on a few and cut every other set of fans off and guess what happened???...it came out great just like the others. so i call this question or "myth" BUSTED. its all personal preference and what ever floats ur boat if u ask me. until i see and hard proof with my own 2 eyes..or MythBusters test it out and comes up with some true and falses..im sayin do what ever tickles ur fancy as long as u are producing good ol' dank herb.
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You are right.In my case my though,i lst and 12/12 sog most of my branches go up some even taller than the main cola but,eventually some leaves get so big they shade the smaller branches which i need to be growing up with the other colas,if i didn't cut the fan leaves off then those smaller branches wouldn't be as big as the rest.
 
Shadeslay

Shadeslay

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Circumstantial for me, if they are buried a foot and half under the canopy and aren't receiving enough light I'll consider trimming them. If I can avoid cutting or trimming I generally try to, as any stress stunts growth, which increases time and I'm all about efficiency or maybe I'm just lazy.
 
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SkyZUU

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i've been wondering this a lot , and have asked the RIU community myself . I've found out that 'fan leaves' are used in the beginning stages of the growth. When you plant starts budding its going to want those fan leaves for energy to fill in and grow the buds . At the budding stage your plant isn't using fan leaves to grow taller or wider anymore , strictly to just grow and fill in buds.
The leaves may not look like they're getting sun but they are .

Happy Growing !
 
stumpjumper

stumpjumper

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There are some pretty good studies that show controlled defoliation actually increases yield. Believe it or not.
 
Grown n Oregon

Grown n Oregon

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my dogs chew the stalks to toothpicks, the rabbits eat the leaves, and the old soil goes in the veggy garden or flower beds....what waste? everybody ends up happy.
 
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Drunkensmoky

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I have been only removing the lower fan leafs once every month . i have 2 plants that are about 3 months old and around 4 feet tall. as i defoliate i add two 42watt 6500k cfls for each plant where the large fan leaf was blocking light penetration. so i have a light for every 2 nodes and i turn the plants once a day. pruning i find does slightly slow vetical grothe but with the added light to the sides promote larger
 
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