VERY BAD, it is those leaves that make the bud, removing them is bud you'll never smokei am just wondering because i have a plant going right now but the fan leaves on the top were making it so the budding parts at the bottom werent getting sufficient light so i decided to snip them was that a bad idea?
i am just wondering because i have a plant going right now but the fan leaves on the top were making it so the budding parts at the bottom werent getting sufficient light so i decided to snip them was that a bad idea?
very well said +REP riddlemeVERY BAD, it is those leaves that make the bud, removing them is bud you'll never smoke
think of them as solar panels that store energy, that energy is what the plant uses to build buds
No you shouldn'tYou should focus the energy on the top of the plant. You should have cut the leaves that were being shaded if you were gonna cut ne thing. Its ok more will grow.
not true either, plants don't SEE shade, the proper spectrums of light that a plant uses are not anything we (humans) see and energy is passed thru the leavesThe only reason I will remove any fan leaves is for air circulation...to prevent mold. Typically it is on the lower branches because as you said they are "solar panals" and solar panels that are shaded don't really collect all that much energy anyway.
The more fan leaves the more food the plant has available.
You are correct however if he was going prune happy he pruned the wrong part. Jorge Cervantes says DO NOT PRUNE unless you have to and if you have to do it more than a month before flowering.No you shouldn't
folks like to use lollypoppin as an example but the whole idea there is to make smaller plants or srog where you remove the leaves under the cage/fence it works cause you build a full and structured canopy that allows for more bud in a smaller area, both are methods that work but still do not yield as much as a plant left to do it's thing as nature intended
in the end it's all about how you want to grow and what you want in the end
fan leaves make the plant grow it's that simple
Here is what I would do, put it back in veg for another 4 weeks then flip back to flower and you'll be fineoooo...im like 2 weeks into flowering....
but it just became female last friday so no bud has started to form yet...is that okay...so pretty much im not gonna yield more now...
Here is what I would do, put it back in veg for another 4 weeks then flip back to flower and you'll be fine
or just let it finish and start a new one having learned from your experience