Starting to Trim While in Pot (Question)

I've seen some pre-harvest pictures before of people with all of their sun leaves clipped off. The plants were basically bare with the flowers exposed.

Can someone explain this. Why you employ this strategy, how you do it, when, etc.

Thanks.

You can do this to allow more light to reach lower areas.
The argument can go on and on as some say yes and some say No.

I do sometimes and sometimes not. YOu will know yourself if the light is being blocked and i believe it should be your judgement and it can vary on each grow.

""when it comes to making flowers the dark is more important to the plant, than the light that it gets, as well as knowing that leaves are good because they act like little "solar power panels" to "fuel" the plant and make it grow.""

Most of those pictures are shot right before harvest. They clip the fleaves off to get a better looking picture. There is no advantage to cutting all the fanleaves off.

It's also just convenient to cut all the large leaves off before you clip the branch just before trimming for harvest.

I did that my first grow and I believe that why my buds were too light and dried into small little buds. I read on here that would happen. So my next grow I didn't cut any and I ended with 4 times the weight. So From my experiments, I say leave them on.

Cool, thanks fellas.

I didn't know if people did it for a growing purpose, like letting more light through or to try to harden the buds later in the game. Or if it was just to get them out of the way quick during harvest/getting a good on stem picture. I agree, in any instance if you did cut off all the foliage, your expensing the plant for whatever your trying to accomplish. (I mean I've cut a couple off before but never all of them while I planned to keep it going.)

imo cutting off almost any fan leaf because its blocking light is pointless. i have scientific reasoning for it though. you see leaves are not as solid as they look. only about 15% of the light that hits a leaf is used, 85% keeps going and so on. if you take it off the parts getting more light now get 15% of 100% of the energy instead of 15% of 85% of the energy. the plant has the leaves where they are for a purpose, the nice big fan leaves are the most effecient energy producers. To each their own however.

i trim n prune through out but when im jus about to flush mabye a week or so from it is when i really start and basiclly cut them bare works fine for me do it everytime saves time at the end
dont be afraid of gettin right in there u can make oil wit ur trimmings frostier the better

I trim all my fan leaves throughout flower because I simply dont have enough room for them. Benefits are IMO: Saved nutes, less watering. Lower humidity, if its a problem for you. Better penetration. More room for more plants. It is my belief now that every node has the required leaves it needs to sustain that particular node, without fan leaves. I would say it worked out for me ok. Check I think my second link in my signature for a journal where I do some heavy chopping.

darkdestruction420 said:

imo cutting off almost any fan leaf because its blocking light is pointless. i have scientific reasoning for it though. you see leaves are not as solid as they look. only about 15% of the light that hits a leaf is used, 85% keeps going and so on. if you take it off the parts getting more light now get 15% of 100% of the energy instead of 15% of 85% of the energy. the plant has the leaves where they are for a purpose, the nice big fan leaves are the most effecient energy producers. To each their own however.

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Sound's like common sense to me.

ive read both sides of the argument quite a few times. and understand the thoughts of both sides, but i still find myself plucking, and plucking more.. i dont know maybe it just gives me more to do? but it does make more room in an already cramped area. and makes the job easier at the end. maybe one day ill finaly figure out that what i have been doing really is diminishing my yeilds, and feel foolish for not listening to the majority. but for now im stuck in my ways so come here my little fan leaves. if anything i think it may add some time to the grow, but done in veg and early flowering, it seems to just bush the plant out more. this is my expierience any ways, and im no expert.