quick question should i remove some fan leaves?

middle of the 6th week of flower, my 6th grow. everything's going great for the first time. just wondering what the pros on here would do, i feel like she is too bushy, but don't want to screw up the last few weeks by taking away their fan leaf food. I guess my question boils down to: is leaving all the fan leaves on the plant to feed the buds better than opening her up for more light penetration? I'm growing an ewok strain in FFHF soil under a pretty good LED light with ff trio + molasses/epsom salts/ beastie blooms and terpenez(not at the same time) any information on what you would do if you were me is greatly appreciated! here's some pics i just took...

Different strokes for different beliefs , I take big under canopy leaves off but you don't have many.....
In your case I personally would not.

Stop using the teripineze or what I call
Pine-sol lemon cleaner

You should start stripping those larger leaves on day 1 (flip) and week 3 (day 20 or 21 w/e) of bloom. Beyond 3 weeks of bloom stripping plants or doing anything like that can cause some genetics to go into HERM mode and make seeds/hermie cocks to save their life. You don't want seeds so I'd leave them especially 6 weeks in.

Day 1

Day 20

Day 21

Day 22 LOOK AT THEM PRAYING

No the plant looks great!

Quick answer would be, "No."

Herb & Suds said:

Stop using the teripineze or what I call
Pine-sol lemon cleaner

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only added the pine sol terpenez stuff twice. does smell like a cleaner, I've only added it to this plant twice. i got it on recommendation from the guy that owns the hydroponics store near me. i was looking for a flushing agent like sledgehammer for my last grow and he didnt have any so he told me to use that.

mhyg420 said:

only added the pine sol terpenez stuff twice. does smell like a cleaner, I've only added it to this plant twice. i got it on recommendation from the guy that owns the hydroponics store near me. i was looking for a flushing agent like sledgehammer for my last grow and he didnt have any so he told me to use that.

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Never take advice from people at the grow shop. Always keep it simple too don't start out using a bunch of additives especially from different brands or you're not going to know what does what or if they are doing anything.

Terpinator and all those products for me personally never did anything to improve flavor or smell.. Its all snake oil that is developed specifically to target cannabis growers into buying their sugar water.

If you want to increase terpenes and resin a proven way would be using Monopotassium Phosphate & Potassium Sulfate or literally epsom salts.. LOTS of info on Epsom Salts if you search around the forum.

ok thank you. i had a feeling it was snake oil crap.
i use Epsom salts at 1 Tbsp/gal once every 4 weeks

That plant is fine as is, none of the leaves are shading major bud sites or preventing air flow through the canopy.

Cut nothing until you harvest.

Leave the leaves alone, and dont flush. Things are going good you say, so just keep it simple, and dont mess it up in the last few weeks.

I use Epsom Salts every feeding/watering, I feed small amounts of everything at every watering.
I use a base chemical formula of 4-20-39, add Calcium Nitrate 15.5-0-0, and Epsom Salts. I dont use calmag as I get my calcium, and nitrogen from Calcium Nitrate.
Sulfur has been linked to terpene production. Epsom salts contains Sulfur
I add Monopotassium Phosphate in weeks 2.5-4 in an 8 weeks flowering strain.
I dont switch formulas from veg-flowering. I use the same formula throughout. Just ever increasing small amounts from seedling-flowering. Only thing extra I add is the MPK in weeks 2.5-4, and then cut it out. I feed in ever increasing small amounts of the base formula, and the Calcium Nitrate, and Epsom Salts until wees 5-6, and then taper off the last 2 weeks. I cut it back 40%-60% I usually feed at 20%-25% of full strenght of a full dose, but feed at every watering. By weeks 4-6 theyre getting a good dose of Epsom salts.

That plant is nice and open already.