brainwashed
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I heard someone say they cut all the fan leaves a few weeks before harvest to let the lower buds get some light! Should I trim them up or not?
Should I cut the fan leaves a few weeks before I harvest?
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6ixty 9ine
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No that's ridiculous, why take away solar panels?
ru4r34l
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You will most likely only reduce your harvest by doing this, a few weeks before harvest is usually when you stop feeding nutrients and the plant will pull any required nutrients from those fan leaves. If you remove the fan leaves and feed nutrients right up to harvest may help but will also increase your curing time.
regards,
brainwashed
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Cool I will watch it
Sorry but I saw that dude's setup and video collection and he's just a ghetto grower who thinks there is a trick to everything, I'm not taking advice like that from a guy who CFL grows 1 plant at a time in his closet. But if you find a new technique that works and can demonstrate some consistency behind it, you be sure and let us know.
col. forbin
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I aggree, I would leave all the fan leaves you can. If they drop then fine. I removed too many fan leaves and my plant took longer to finish. Not sure yet about a cure time being effected. I will update when I get an idea on that. My stem was hollow and noodlelike.
brainwashed
Member
Cool thanks guys. I will just leave it alone. I am gonna have to trim them way better next time.
brainwashed
Member
Ya that guy was definitely ghetto!
Harrekin
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Inaccurate statement, a healthy plant wont drop ANY fans and will probably still have green cotyledons (original seed leaves) till the end. If you're using the wrong nutes/they're not getting enough light your plant may drop leaves, but if it recieves everything it needs in the right amount it shouldnt drop any.
Bet you follow feeding schedules to the letter and dont suppliment your plants with any extra N in flowering either, do you?
Plants dropping/yellowing leaves being normal is a forum bullshit myth thats just read once by someone not knowing any better and then spewing it onto others who believe it and then perpetuate the cycle.
Hope this helps
toker!
Active Member
im sure yous know a lot more than me i have got one successful grow under my belt im goin to do 2 plants cut some fan leaves off one and leave the other one and see what happensSorry but I saw that dude's setup and video collection and he's just a ghetto grower who thinks there is a trick to everything, I'm not taking advice like that from a guy who CFL grows 1 plant at a time in his closet. But if you find a new technique that works and can demonstrate some consistency behind it, you be sure and let us know.
Harrekin
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All you'll be doing is wasting the yield on one plant...
zem
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i keep feeding my plants up until harvest and after curing, my weed is the best tasting! i only lower the nitrogen levels in later flowering and i don't starve my plants for a whole week when it's actually still putting on weight! i agree that a healthy plant would not drop all its leaves in late flowering. to increase yield, you need the most solkar panbels you can have
two2brains
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When you flush in the last week your letting your plant use up all the stored nutrients. All the fan leaves will turn yellowish by the end of the week as it using them up.
If you want the lower buds to get light then harvest the top cola(s) and let the bottom half go another week or two.
If you want the lower buds to get light then harvest the top cola(s) and let the bottom half go another week or two.
dannyboy602
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Plants at the end of their grow can look pretty tired. And I've had plants that still looked pretty green. Sometimes too much of something i add in the beginning comes back and haunts me near the end. But its all practice and practice makes perfect.
caligreenzzz
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i learn shit everyday, thanks....got a couple plants @ 9 weeks into flowering, and weird thing is the 1 plant i put in MG is the one with the no yellowing at all....other plants are in FF...could the yellowing also be part of the strain??
dirtysnowball
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its because miracle grow has slow release nutes, your plant is staying healthy because nutes are still being released. just think though, your doing the same thing as all the so called "organic" growers, they cant flush their nutes out just like you. but somehow their weed taste "natural" hahahaha, guess what nitrogen is nitrogen. the N20 from miracle grow is in fact the same atom as the N20 from fox farm! crazy right?! you should just say your bud is organic cuz it will have a more "natural taste", like how it is in the wild.
sparky1
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i come to the table here as a fool among the wise, but ive NEVER had a plant... any plant that didnt have some leaves turn yellow and fall off. you name it... ive grown it. im new to growing cannabis, but my growing experience is life- long with everything else. banana leaves yellow and die off. pepper leaves yellow and die off. papaya leaves yellow and die off. tomato leaves yellow and die off. pole beans leaves yellow and die off. mint leaves yellow and die off. rose leaves yellow and die off. etc... etc...etc. to me i dont see it as a sign of any problems. its just a natural life process of any plant... its going to lose a leaf here and there, and when they get lime green i personally snip them. BUT THATS JUST ME.
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