yeah well buddy with my luck i cut the wrong leaf and the whole plant dies...bad juju
Huh? If you are trimming, the plant is already cut down and technically already dead. When you trim you remove all fan leaves, then you cut the remaining leaves (sugar leaf) keep the fan leaves separate from the sugar leafs and keep them stored in a brown paper bag. Hang your buds and cure a week after that, begin curing.
I say keep the leaves for canna butter and then cookies.
do a batch with fan leafs, then a batch with sugar... Research into that to find out what I'm talking about.