and Ive been growing marijuana for over 13 years... Have you ever tried it mushhead??? I bet you never did.. so how would you know if it works or not? Ive done it and seen the results first hand.. I dont need to ask for advice when it comes to that and I couldnt care less if anybody believes it or not. But dont try to tell me Im wrong when I know for a fact it does.. We dont agree, its that simple. You keep trying to tell me im wrong lol give it a rest.
well thanks for not calling me special needsIts called energy transfer. This is such a touchy subject here on riu. Removing leaves and sucker shoots will force your girls to put all its energy to the remaining growing shoots. You loose nothing with the right strains and even can get better results by this technique.
while i dont agree with leaf snatchin, look at them sexy ladies!!!! great grow budolskie. what kind of wattage you running for those?lst'd my 4 big bud and cut off a few fan leaves during flower that were covering branches day 39 of 12/12 these pics were taken
while i dont agree with leaf snatchin, look at them sexy ladies!!!! great grow budolskie. what kind of wattage you running for those?
for those of you who LST, do you trim big fan leaves when the plants start to get bushy? or just try and tape them down? or....? maybe i'm training the tops down too frequently, or maybe i need to pull the lights up to make the shoots stretch more, but it just seems like all the leaves are getting all bunched up......?
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I LST'd on the grow I just finished (I also topped for four main colas as per Uncle Ben). I did not remove any fan leaves in veg -- you can just leave them alone. The plant will get very bushy and you'll think there's no way any bud sites below the cola will get any light -- until you flip and get the stretch. At that point it becomes clear what the stretch is for -- to get light to mid-level bud sites!
At that point, you can bend/tuck large fan leaves that are blocking light to lower bud sites. Some growers also trim the lower third growth, which won't get much light in flowering. My guess has been that that growth is the plant's backup system should the upper growth fail somehow (hurricane winds that knock it down, for example). However, in a grow there is no need for a backup system. You'll see scroggers/mainliners clips all that lower third growth to divert energy to the upper bud sites. I'm going to be doing that myself on the next grow as an experiment.
At the end of the day, does it really matter if you clip a leaf or two? Probably not. But remember that in the last two weeks of flowering, the plant is going to be trying to draw energy from those leaves as it bulks up the colas. My plants actually stopped drinking nutes and pulled completely from the leaves in the last 3 weeks, just as the colas started swelling. So you do need to leave something for them to work off of!
cleaning out the bottom will help with your air flow too. i know on sensi star ive always had to keep it extra clean of crappy growth and suckers, damn thing gets mildew at 45% humidity for me if its to thick.I LST'd on the grow I just finished (I also topped for four main colas as per Uncle Ben). I did not remove any fan leaves in veg -- you can just leave them alone. The plant will get very bushy and you'll think there's no way any bud sites below the cola will get any light -- until you flip and get the stretch. At that point it becomes clear what the stretch is for -- to get light to mid-level bud sites!
At that point, you can bend/tuck large fan leaves that are blocking light to lower bud sites. Some growers also trim the lower third growth, which won't get much light in flowering. My guess has been that that growth is the plant's backup system should the upper growth fail somehow (hurricane winds that knock it down, for example). However, in a grow there is no need for a backup system. You'll see scroggers/mainliners clips all that lower third growth to divert energy to the upper bud sites. I'm going to be doing that myself on the next grow as an experiment.
At the end of the day, does it really matter if you clip a leaf or two? Probably not. But remember that in the last two weeks of flowering, the plant is going to be trying to draw energy from those leaves as it bulks up the colas. My plants actually stopped drinking nutes and pulled completely from the leaves in the last 3 weeks, just as the colas started swelling. So you do need to leave something for them to work off of!
you can trim fan leaves if they are blocking branches or grow tips....when you cut a fan leaf off its gonna send that engery to the brances and grow tips..
you try to make me look stupid by talking down to me, calling me a special needs child, and then precede with some half cocked explanation of why the you think its beneficial, and still not be able to explain why it causes promoted branching. is it transferring energy like someone else said? no metion of any of these topics.
\This was in my very first post in this thread..
I do sound like a dickhead sometimes so dont take it personal. Im just saying I cut a few fans off all the time and Ive seen the results a 1000 times..![]()
awesome. i deffinately wouldnt know shit about that strain, ive never grown a good one, it always attracted mites when i had it. then again almost ten years ago i wasnt all that great at keeping my plants healthy, great at growing them right, but when they would go a lil sour..White widow loves it.. its pretty much the only strain I grow. They are short and bushy.. I just let my sister borrow my digital camera or I would take a picture of my 1" ft clone with 7 branches trying to grow past the main grow tip.. I will post some pics tomorrow.![]()
id still never cut em untill their half or more dead. indoors, the light is less than the sun.
more leaves, you obsorb allllll that light. cut leaves off, less obsorbtion.