I have grown for many years. Indoor, I remove a lot of leaves. It causes the plant to porduce smaller, bud leaves. As my buds swell, the flowerrs grow into the single bladed leaves produced by cutting the leaves.
Does cutting leaves slow growth? 100% yes. But it causes closer internodals and in the end more yield.
Dying leaves....dead leaves? yes cut them. Sickly or partially sad looking leaves, leave them! (no pun intended) Here is why:
A plants job is to reproduce. It will sacrifice parts of itself in this order
1) shade leaves
2) secondary leaves
3) buds
This is why the plant consumes its shade leaves at the end. Leave kind of sick leaves as the plant will use this to help itself. Let's say u r watering with tap water and it has some bad cheimcals in it. The plant will suck up the water, keep the good and move the bad stuff to the dying leaf. In this way it uses the leaf like a garbage can. Throw away the bad stuff in here, then throw away (drop the leaf) when the can is full.
I tend to overfeed my plants in all stages except last 3 weeks of flowering. On certain crops, shade leaves turned like an oyster shell (pearl almost metallic looking colors) as they transferred the excess nutes to the leaves it could not use or store. The BUDS ALWAYS REMAINED HEALTHY as long as there were enough leaves to sacrifice. People have often commented this is bad. But you would have to see my yields. I know the plant is at 100% capacity when I see the tips of leaves start to burn.
Removing leaves will slow growth, but the overall yield will be tter. One might argue 4 crops a year with all leaves is a better overall yearly yield than 3 crops with trimmed leaves (being 3 instead of 4 due to extra time for cutting off leaves). I have never tested this.
One other point to consider. My buds traditionaly have many small leaves due to trimming main leaves. When the buds crytal up, these leaves also crystal. There is far more surface area on a leaf than a flower. The end result is more surface area=more smoke.
Does cutting leaves slow growth? 100% yes. But it causes closer internodals and in the end more yield.
Dying leaves....dead leaves? yes cut them. Sickly or partially sad looking leaves, leave them! (no pun intended) Here is why:
A plants job is to reproduce. It will sacrifice parts of itself in this order
1) shade leaves
2) secondary leaves
3) buds
This is why the plant consumes its shade leaves at the end. Leave kind of sick leaves as the plant will use this to help itself. Let's say u r watering with tap water and it has some bad cheimcals in it. The plant will suck up the water, keep the good and move the bad stuff to the dying leaf. In this way it uses the leaf like a garbage can. Throw away the bad stuff in here, then throw away (drop the leaf) when the can is full.
I tend to overfeed my plants in all stages except last 3 weeks of flowering. On certain crops, shade leaves turned like an oyster shell (pearl almost metallic looking colors) as they transferred the excess nutes to the leaves it could not use or store. The BUDS ALWAYS REMAINED HEALTHY as long as there were enough leaves to sacrifice. People have often commented this is bad. But you would have to see my yields. I know the plant is at 100% capacity when I see the tips of leaves start to burn.
Removing leaves will slow growth, but the overall yield will be tter. One might argue 4 crops a year with all leaves is a better overall yearly yield than 3 crops with trimmed leaves (being 3 instead of 4 due to extra time for cutting off leaves). I have never tested this.
One other point to consider. My buds traditionaly have many small leaves due to trimming main leaves. When the buds crytal up, these leaves also crystal. There is far more surface area on a leaf than a flower. The end result is more surface area=more smoke.
