Is using clips to pull back fan leaves a solid idea?

Pretty much everything I've read says don't cut off any healthy leaves but I've got some fan leaves that are covering up the lower canopy quite a bit so I went ahead used some tie offs to bend a bunch of the big leaves back towards the stem so the inner canopy can mature.

I was thinking this is effective at getting the light down further into the canopy and also not shocking the plant by chopping off a bunch of leaves unnecessary.

Thoughts?

light on buds-

doesn't grow buds. the sugars produced from these light absorbers makes sugars that are tranfered directly to budding sites.

leave the leaves. millions of year of adaption have went into the underpinnings. they are fine.

I don't see how that would hurt anything. I harvest the tops and leave the plant for 2 more weeks the buds that weren't getting enough light will get more when ya cut out the tops.

Leave you leafs be,
You will just damage them anyway, and they will die off,
When your plants are young and you knock the leafs they scar and it stands out when mature , get some cfl side lights to do the job instead.

I personally cut lots of them off, and I cut as many of the lower branches and stretchy shoots near the bottom as I can justify. The plants always bulk right up the next day, and love it. Almost every strain that I've run reacts with explosive vigor the harder I am to them.

lollipopping, ya it works just fine

I pull leaves that are blocking out light from bud sites all the time. I find that some strains respond better than others. This argument will never die because there are people on both sides of the fence that are adamant about what they believe to be "true". I would experiment for yourself and find out what works for you.

bowlfullofbliss said:

I personally cut lots of them off, and I cut as many of the lower branches and stretchy shoots near the bottom as I can justify. The plants always bulk right up the next day, and love it. Almost every strain that I've run reacts with explosive vigor the harder I am to them.

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some amount of stress is good!

this plant has developed these really really neat compounds called.. cannabinoids... and they are produced to thwart stress!

MORE UV/LIGHT = stress = production of a compound that could block it... hmmm THC?


EVERY transplant i do... they get lollipopped as much as i can justify, scrap the stalk (just like cloning) for a root explosion (good time to use ZHO or other bennies) , bury it deeper in a bigger pot, thin out the leaves a bit, and trellis it up.

You will be fine. There is actually a commercial product that specifically does this but I can't remember the name.

Pull those large fan leaves blocking bud sites off, do not listen to the nonsense that you cannot or the plant will be damaged, " sugar centers'[ blah blah blah.
Don't hesitate for even 1 second. A caretaker I know defoliates very extensively and, inspite of " know-nothings" tell him he should not, has incredible fat buds.
It is very simple, your indoor plant doesn't get the benefit of a sun that rotates across the plant as the day progresses. Any bud sites not getting light are not going to grow anything worth picking. Plenty of green leaves left after pulling a few big ones off. Do a test with same plant, one with giant shade leaves removed and one left on - you will see the light ( no pun intended lol)

rubbish-

i bet dollars to doughnuts.

it's simple botany. this is the reason why i can't even get my smoke out at the club. all "guru" growers hate me for some reason?