Should I trim a few leaf tips in order to get flowers more light?

[Organique04]

I am not one for trimming and pruning. However I can see how some small flowers are being shaded by fan leafs. I can get light to those flowers by trimming just the tips off these fan leafs here and there, while avoiding cutting any leaves. Is this beneficial to the flower sites getting light penetration, or should I just leave things natural?

 

[burwoodkush]

you will get tons and tons of advise telling you to do it and not to do it and why......

cut em....... see what happens.
then you'll know

 

[burwoodkush]

i ALWAYS feel weird about cutting my ladies...... but i do anyways, and they respond well.

 

[Organique04]

I dont like cutting anything on my girl. If I snip a leaf tip just above a flower top, it wouldn't be much stress. It just seems to me light hitting those bud sites directly, would be beneficial.

 

[topfuel29]

The plant trims it self. Just take off dead dried out leafs.

 

[Bakatare666]

I dont like cutting anything on my girl. If I snip a leaf tip just above a flower top, it wouldn't be much stress. It just seems to me light hitting those bud sites directly, would be beneficial.

Tuck 'em if you can, tie 'em if you can't. After cutting a few last season, I'll not do it again.
If the plant wants them off, they will fall off or come off with a very light tug.

 

[BquamB]

I have never trimmed my plants.
Heard of people claiming a huge gain in yield, but i highly suspect they are either pulling shit out of their ass, or they are very experienced and have found something that works for them and they believe in.

 

[zack66]

Last harvest I trimmed nothing except dying leaves and had the best yield. If the plant doesn't want them she knows what to do!

 

[topfuel29]

The leaf of the plant is the factory of the plant. Light, water, and nutrients come together in the leaf and produce sugars and carbon the plant needs to grow. It also stores these things in the leaf.
The buds have very little leaf around them. So cutting bigger leafs that cover your buds is sorta like removing one factory from your plant. Specially big sun leafs that are still healthy and green.
Trimming sucker branches should be something you should do at least two weeks before you put her into flower. The plant has time to rebound from the trimming.
I think the bigger yeild might be from not shocking your plant when she is in flower. Maybe trimming healthy leaf shocks the plant and it doesn't produce what it could have because you cut to many of the plants factory's.

 

[Kush Killington]

All i can say is experiment! Its a damn weed, itll grow just fine. I took a male plant i had and cut off every fan leave in the first week of flower, and it started poppin sacks Everywhere and faster!! Its was crazy. So i killed her and started slowly trimmin the ladies. They like it

 

[marcy]

I always trim if it means more light on bud sites

 

[MrKhola]

Is there any more info on your grow? It's very Plant and situation specific so a little trim, or a basic bit of nip and tuck, can work wonders. Especially in a fast-growing scenario (see super-cropping etc).

A very personal thing though. A little trim is best to start off with- but remember alot of 'small' trims in a row are very damaging. A big, healthy plant will have no problems; it's just a fine line indeed.
If you've noted some flower-sites that have potential but are being restricted then take a little but careful to leave big Sun-leaves and structures as good as poss. Don't feel every flower needs light... focus on your tops.

I've had to trim and train plants merely due to lack of space before... if i can only fit, say 5 pots then 2-4 big colas per plant is better than one!

Good luck