can i cut ALL the fan leaves off?

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Conoclast

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The plant uses nutrients by photosynthesis which is done in the leaves.. you cut them all of and it 'starves' to death.
 
MrFishy

MrFishy

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When you remove a leaf, the bud at that site stops growing, so you defeat the purpose of the action in the first place.
 
SmokeyMacpot420

SmokeyMacpot420

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yeah, of course you can remove big, obnoxious fan leaves. There are NO budsites on fan leaves, they are only inhibiting light from getting to lower branches. the plant will carry on photosynthesis fine without them. but i wouldnt take them all off at once, only as a precaution to reduce stress on the plant though.
 
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gangjababy

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Dude just leave your plant alone, I'm sure it's not happy from the time realeased fert that you burned it with and then cutting off the fan leaves is just adding insult to injury. I've been following your grow from the beginning and wish you all the best but I think some people just don't have a green thumb including you!
 
AnitaNuggs

AnitaNuggs

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my dad does that to his plants and they bud perfectly.

i saw his new crop last week and two days before he had taken the fan leaves off and tied them down. they held up fine and now they are fuckin twice as big.

i dont know anymore about the fan leaves thing.
i use to be con cutting off fan leaves.
 
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theeggman

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dude just get a cheap floro lamp or cfl lamp and put it under the canopy and point it toward your buds. the plant grows a certain way for a reason dont fuck with nature too much. I'm new to growing but I do garden outdoors a lot. Just use your logic and either tie back the leaves or get a cheapo floro or cfl grow lamp and point it toward the buds.

I keep floros under my canopy works great even expands your light spectrum + the added lumens
 
AnitaNuggs

AnitaNuggs

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listen to smokeymacpot420 i think he knows what he's talkin about.
my dads were outdoor also. he just didnt know what the seeds were.
 
tyeee

tyeee

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i've trimmed the majority of mine off, and my plant is budding so much more...the way i figure is as long as the leaves around the bud site are ok, then you can just gradually trim away useless leaves....that way all the nutes and energy is going straight into make dank buds...instead of wasting away in the fan leaves...check out my threads and you'll see my trimmed baby in her wonders.
 
supdro

supdro

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I sure hope you are right tyeee. I just trimmed the majority of my fans off because they were turning yellow anyways. I have heard that it makes the buds use more nutes and grow bigger since my plants are ready to be harvest. started 12/12 on june 1st. bubblicious 8-9 weeks. do you think they are done??
 
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techhead420

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Fold the fan leaves back and out of the way of budding sites; this is part of a technique called "low stress training". Fan leaves do not suck energy from the plant. The fan leaves are producing sugars through the photosynthesis process and these sugars are transported to your buds through the phloem. When your leaves are turning yellow, enzymes are breaking the chemicals down in the leaf and these chemicals are transported to other parts of the plant as needed also through the phloem. The only thing you accomplish by cutting off the fan leaves is removing a source of carbohydrates to your buds.


Phloem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
smokablunt16

smokablunt16

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ok some of my fan leaves are covering my growth shoots so would it be okay to cut instead of bend the top half of each leaf? wouldnt after time the leaf bend right back?
 
SmokeyMacpot420

SmokeyMacpot420

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cut them! techhead is right in saying that folding them back will reduce stress on the plant, but all the other leaves on the plant will carry out photosynthesis and carry nutrients to the buds perfectly...
 
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techhead420

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SmokeyMacpot420 said:
cut them! techhead is right in saying that folding them back will reduce stress on the plant, but all the other leaves on the plant will carry out photosynthesis and carry nutrients to the buds perfectly...
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I never said that folding the leaves back would reduce stress on the plants, I said that this technique is part of "low stress training". There's a big difference here and I was misquoted.

Cannabis Headquarters - Guide to Training Techniques (LST, SOG, SCROG, etc)

Smokey, can you give a source to back your claim that it is beneficial to chop off fan leaves? (Hint, read the first part of my signature)
 
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lizardking420

lizardking420

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Ive cut cut a number of fan leaves and left a few. The buds that i uncovered from the shade of the fan leaves are larger than the buds that are still in the shade from the fan leaves. I usually just trim a few every once in a while.
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