To prune or not to prune?

I am 32 days into a GG4 auto indoor grow, maybe 2-3 weeks into vegetation. I am curious if I should prune leaves that are covering newer smaller leaves and branches that have began to show in the last week. These new stems and leaves all around the plant(up and down), I just caught a picture of one side of them.

This is my first grow so I am a newb.

Me personally, I'd just pluck the lowest couple leaves closest to the dirt/medium.

I only kind of selectively remove fan leaves if they are stopping a shoot from keeping up with the others.

ProPheT 216 said:

I only kind of selectively remove fan leaves if they are stopping a shoot from keeping up with the others.

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Seems like the one I have pictured is like that. It sits on top of the shoot below and the leaves rarely get any light.

I would top the very head off them and get rid of those lower branches since it's an autoflower and there is no cloning of those.

Take it for a grain of salt but I'd look into growing Photoperiod plants instead of Autoflower, many benefits including you can clone the plants and dial in the growth and better know and learn where and when to cut plants in situations just like this.

immason25 said:

I am 32 days into a GG4 auto indoor grow, maybe 2-3 weeks into vegetation. I am curious if I should prune leaves that are covering newer smaller leaves and branches that have began to show in the last week. These new stems and leaves all around the plant(up and down), I just caught a picture of one side of them.

This is my first grow so I am a newb.

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Always top, LST, and Prune photos. Autos I only prune leaves that block budsites.