Fan leaves problem.

ErikBL

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Hello growers. I have 5 pots of WW. Outdoor growing. Plants is looking good, but they have big fan leaves and very small branches. Fan leaves ar covering them and under fan leaves smaler leaves from branches is starting to curve. It don't look very good. Would I need to cut fan leaves?

They are in 8 week of veg...

Plant is ok but all branches is looking very weak, fan leaves are huge but branches where must come out buds are small :/ Don't look good at all... Today I gave them nuts with N-P-K 6-13-30, hope it will help some how...
 

kryptoniteglo

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Pics would help, but don't touch your fan leaves right now. If your strain has a decent stretch period, a lot of space will open between the nodes, and then you can simply tuck the fan leaves out of the way. Your plant will need the sugars in them toward the end of flowering. They're there for a reason!

IMHO the only exception is the bottom third of the plant. Also IMHO, nature wants to make sure that the plant will survive to pollination, so there are all those great top buds all sticky to receive pollen -- but there's a Plan B should a hurricane come around and knock all the big stalks down...that Plan B is the bottom third, which will rise up with the bigger stalks gone to grab some pollen. But in OUR grow environment, they're not necessary at all. So I now subscribe to the idea that those smaller stalks in the bottom third can be removed so that energy in the plant can divert to top growth.

But I would never take a fan leaf from the top two thirds -- my plant needs them for growth and finishing.
 
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