Hi All.
Disregarding scroging and any kind of special growth training, surely its godda be better to leave the leaves????
Any leaf, is part of the plants conversion system, IE solar energy into sugars/carbs/enzyms/homones/etc? so removing one leaf, because its shading another doesn't make sense, surely the leaf nearer the light source is gonna recieve light of a higher intensity? (knowing as we do that light obeys the inverse square law, (OK we know it raelly only aplies to a point souce, but it illustrates the importance of having the lightsource as near as possible)).
And doesn't a plant have a mechanism in the leaf/petiole to move and angle leaves to reacieve the maximum light it can?
Also it seems poeple like to remove leaves when they look less than perfect, but in a leaf that is dieing even, doesn't the plant try to recover all the good stuff from it before it gets rid of the leaf, that is all the colours changing as the plant removes anything usefull from it prior to dropping it?
So unless it is really "in the way" in some way, surely its better to leave it until either the plant drops it, or you decide its as good as spent.
After all, its already spent energy making some of the goodies that it is now removing from the leaf, before getting rid, and removing a healthy leaf is throwing away usefull ingredients the plant has already spent time producing.
Granted its not quite that simple, as some elements are mobile, some imobile.
I'd be interested to hear any other thoughts on this subject, as it seems there are almost as many opinions as growers.
Toodle Pip.
