HELP!! Trimmed to many fan leaves.

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CaptainDabIt

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This is my first grow. Got to the 6th week of flowering before I had any real trouble.
The other day I added supports to help my girls stand up and help with over crowding.
Today I cut several fan leaves off.
(I have been doing it for a while a few here and there to help with light.)
But since I clipped them off today she looks worse then she ever has before. 80-90% of her leaves are drooping. And some of them are looking like they are starting to wilt. She normally bounces back in a day or so. But I've never seen it look this bad.
I hadn't watered in a few days so I gave her some water. It looks like it helped a little but not much.
They are still a few weeks from being ready for harvest in my noobish opinion.

Do you guys think they will bounce back? Or did I just waste 5 months?
 
beuffer420

beuffer420

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Yea you'll be ok. Me personally though, I leave the leafs on my plant. They are what catch the light for your flowers to grow.
 
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CaptainDabIt

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Ya they already look better. A few of them took it pretty hard. But the majority of them seemed to bounce back pretty well.
Thanks for the input guys. I was just freaking out a little.
 
FilthyFletch

FilthyFletch

Mr I Can Do That For Half
You wanna trim when the plants have had plenty of water and food so its in the system when you trim them up. The more fans you take you start to hurt the output so lower amounts and lower qaulity as the fan are what turn the plants food and water into usable energy so take it very easy especially in flower after week 2.
 
botanist95

botanist95

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I see you mention you added supports? Did you put your so called supports into your soil? If so you might have damaged some of your root system causing some shock. Just asking dont know without some pics. Hope everything works out ok for ya.
 
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crispy06

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hey dont worry about youre fan leaves bro my last grow i got to flowering and 2 of my 3 plants fan leaves started to yellow and fall off i kinda screwed the one plant and it died the other plant i didnt touch and it bounced back and gave me about 2 ozs i think i lstd them too much and me lsting and then switching to flower a couple weeks after just stessed the fuck outa them honestly best advice i can give ya is stop cutting fan leaves off thats where the plant gets all its energy from think about outside in nature it is a natural growing plant and im sure out there somethings not gonna come and cut its leaves off lol but best thing to do is mimic nature exactly let her be and let her grow shell do right by u its her purpose in life to produce bud theres no stopping nature unless u stop it so just let her grow
 
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crispy06

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6 weeks into bud too if its indica should be done in just a couple weeks sativa who knows could be another 2 months best thing is to get urselfe a scoop and check the trichs do you know what strain and if its indica sativa or hybrid knowing that could help determine if this should really even be any concern for u
 
AimAim

AimAim

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CaptainDabIt said:
The other day I added supports to help my girls stand up and help with over crowding.
Today I cut several fan leaves off. But since I clipped them off today she looks worse then she ever has before.
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Ya think there might be a connecting factor here? Plants grow leaves for a reason.
 
Jpzooyork

Jpzooyork

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Just a few questions What strain are you growing what nutes hydro or soil. Few things to keep in mind keep humidity at 40-60 % temps keep at 65-75 degrees as high as 80 to 90 if using co2 enrichment and lots of air flow/ movement threw the plant and only water if top 2 inches are dry now that you are a little later into flower use less nitrogen and flush for 2 weeks if using synthetic nutes. The plant should bounce back if you have access I would try to add some super thrive for 1 week helps with plant stress and shock prob stressed it out a bit with the trimming and stakes in the root zone next time slowly trim from bottom up leaving only the top 3rd of the plant canopy or keep it all and tuck leaves basically if light isn't hitting it it's wasting energy to stay alive and remove scraggly stems and leaves from bottom not getting light penetration.

But add some super thrive I use around 1.25 ml per gallon and wait till trichomes turn cloudy and like 10% amber the more amber the more couch lock high the more cloudy the more uplifting high
Check your run off ph you could have nute lock out keep ph at 7 if in soil 5.6 if hydro and around 6.3 in coco and ppms should hardly ever reach 800 ppm tops although I've grown some strains that didn't burn at 1300ppm less is better you can always feed more but at this stage you need more p&k ph is important though check your run off and treat with super thrive soak you should be fine this far along
 
kinddiesel

kinddiesel

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you need to get us some pics. cutting the fan leaves off will not cause an issue. because I did the same on several plants. drooping leaves is usually under watered . or over water or root rot . or temp or other issue. over fertilized majorly . but if you did have an issue cutting those fan leaves will cause the issue to speed u majorly
 
Bakatare666

Bakatare666

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Until now, I haven't seen pics, but I could suggest root bound depending..........
If they're rootbound, I don't care what you do, IME, it's NOT gonna fix droopy leaves.
 
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Gordo1959

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Gordo here, This is my first grow. I trimmed too many fan leaves when the plant was in veg. So I held off an extra week or ten days before flipping to 12/12. I'm using bagseed. It was no big problem in part because 4 out of 6 plants were male and these were cut down. Then one of the remaining plants looked distressed, I thought it was from over fertilizing, so I flushed it, which made it worse. The plant survived without large leaves just buds and tiny leaves. I have now cut that one and hung it to dry. The trichomes were white with some ambers mixed in. And really I needed to make room in the flowering space because the plants in the veg. room (18/6) are starting to bud.
This next group into the flowering room, I'm using light nutes, no trimming, water only when dry, and let them do their thing without interference.
This first grow isn't perfect, but I didn't expect it to be. Learn from my mistakes and the next grow will be better. Good luck.
 
Andrew2112

Andrew2112

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When I need more light on lower buds I normaly only remove 1-3 leaflets or I cut some if not all in half, that way you still have some extra food/solar panels left.
 
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CaptainDabIt

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AimAim said:
Ya think there might be a connecting factor here? Plants grow leaves for a reason.
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The reason I added supports was because as I said this is my first grow and I had shitty lights so they stretched when they were young. So now I'm paying for that by having tall plants with thin stems and no support. So the reason I trimmed leaves was because they had been growing out. And when I stood them up all the fans were blocking what little light was getting low. I didn't just arbitrarily just start lopping all her leaves off. I chose ones that were acting as hats to buds. I just cut too many.
 
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CaptainDabIt

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Jpzooyork said:
Just a few questions What strain are you growing what nutes hydro or soil. Few things to keep in mind keep humidity at 40-60 % temps keep at 65-75 degrees as high as 80 to 90 if using co2 enrichment and lots of air flow/ movement threw the plant and only water if top 2 inches are dry now that you are a little later into flower use less nitrogen and flush for 2 weeks if using synthetic nutes. The plant should bounce back if you have access I would try to add some super thrive for 1 week helps with plant stress and shock prob stressed it out a bit with the trimming and stakes in the root zone next time slowly trim from bottom up leaving only the top 3rd of the plant canopy or keep it all and tuck leaves basically if light isn't hitting it it's wasting energy to stay alive and remove scraggly stems and leaves from bottom not getting light penetration.

But add some super thrive I use around 1.25 ml per gallon and wait till trichomes turn cloudy and like 10% amber the more amber the more couch lock high the more cloudy the more uplifting high
Check your run off ph you could have nute lock out keep ph at 7 if in soil 5.6 if hydro and around 6.3 in coco and ppms should hardly ever reach 800 ppm tops although I've grown some strains that didn't burn at 1300ppm less is better you can always feed more but at this stage you need more p&k ph is important though check your run off and treat with super thrive soak you should be fine this far along
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Wow! Thanks for the awesome reply. I'm not sure what strain it is. Def a sativa though. I got it from a guy I know who grows in CO. He's and old dude that's been doing it for a while. So who knows what strain lol.
But ya. The leaves are all good now. I trimmed them in the morning and by their bed time last night they all had pretty much rebounded.
I have no idea what my ph is. I use general hydroponics bio thrive bloom. I have them in fox farms seed starter cause I've had em in these big ass pots since seed.
The guy at the hydro store told me I don't have to worry about the ph cause it's all organic and doesn't affect ph. Idk if that's true. But my girls have never looked sick unless I overfed them or like yesterday trimmed to many leaves and shocked her.
And idk how to post pics. Sorry. New to this as I am growing.
 
Nizza

Nizza

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next time try following a reputable growers tutorial
really. go all in and do what they do, this will give you a lot of good experience. Don't ask questions just follow what they do
Well i'm sure theres something youll need to know but just try not to ask :P

I like uncle bens methods (easy, simple), world of hempy is cool if you have $ for meters and stuff but isn't a huge difference, just nice to not have soil in the house.
As for aero setups i checked out pet flora, and some of the hpaa systems on there; that is something not to worry about for a long time..
I can't think of everyone but that will give you a start.
you usually start reading and see other peoples links on their sigs

if i were you i'd get a pre-buffered and nuted soil that you just have to add water to.
first, start it in a starter cup, get it big enough to handle the big pot, and then put it in and don't worry about it
this involves mixing soil and is called "super soil"
some mix it into their pot and some do a layer on the bottom of the planter that the plant taps into.
this is something someone could make you, put it in a pot with a plant and you wouldn't have to know jack shit , and have a great outcome
just trying to throw out some ideas here bud!

i love leaving the fan leaves, and keeping everything green
 
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