Is it ok to snip limbs when flowering?

I got some 5 leaved leaves close to the bottom that aren't getting much light. I want to snip off 4 or 5 of them to conserve light. Is this a good idea? Its about 8 days in flowering with underdeveloped calyxes without pistils.

why do you want to snip them? seriously... dig deep in your soul.. why do YOU want to cut these leaves...?

will it improve your yield?

iloveyou

Garden Knowm said:

why do you want to snip them? seriously... dig deep in your soul.. why do YOU want to cut these leaves...?

will it improve your yield?

iloveyou

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doesnt it?
i watched the green house video on youtube n it says if u pic the bottom leaves off more bud energy will go to the top buds..
watch it...type green house seeds.

I always cut the lower bud sites to improve the yield to the top of the cola,everytime man,dont waste the plants energy on shizer bud sites, snip them,but dont do it more than once i would suggest as the plant might think your nasty and grow some balls due to stress.........thats my advice anyway,but always worth somone elses advice,maybe have different veiws on it
all the best

chop em. or put more lights down low. if they are just leaves and not sprouting buds there is no loss

8 days into flowering? Go ahead...chop a couple and use as clones. I wouldn't suggest doing it again after that. I've had a tendency in the past to just nip away..attempting to make it branch again and again. Like Bongo said, you do risk making it a hermaphrodite due to stress. Just make sure you don't do it again. AND, like Garden said, "Why would YOU want to cut those leaves?" LOL....I can see it from both ways. Let's just say, I'm determined to make a bonzai beauty one day.

Over three years, I've done 7 grows. The first two grows, I pruned off those fan leaves, I listened to newbies, the last 5 grows I did not.
I learned that the big fan leaves are the most instrumental for the photosynthesis deal, turning LIGHT and water adn food into new growth. Cut off that food maker, and you slow the growth of the entire plant.
AND, they will make a small leaf grow bigger to take it's place. Instead, just pull and tie them back some.

I'm telling you friend, do not remove a healthy leaf. It is not wise, it is not the intelligent thing to do. DO NOT listen to the foolish theory that the leaves are like pigs at a feeding though, and if you remove some igs, the other pigs get more. What actually happens is then there are less pigs to get the trough emptied.

I do single stem lollypop method. I cut all but the top cola off when I put my girls into flowering. Top growth is never affected by trimming. It becomes a problem when you cut something from the top you run the risk of stunting the branches under it. If you cut everything under the very top you'll be safe. I do this so that I will optimize my plants with the space I have. By cutting all but the top (future) cola, you are allowing the plant to send all of its energy into developing that cola. I do my first trimming at day one flowering, then I come back 7 days later when I change out the reservoir and cut off any more branches that may have developed moving away from the main stem off. I check my plants one more time at day 14 and trim them once more if they need it (usually don't) just any branches again that may have started to stray away from the main conglomerate of cola development. When all is said and done, you will begin to see one mega cola developing. The fan leaves may start to overlap, but you don't run into a whole bunch of side branches blocking others. If leaves start to get too big, you don't necessarily have to cut them off, but rather just trim the tips of each finger on the leaf shorter to allow more light to other leaves. For example in regards to growing like this, my setup can hold about 20 plants sea of green... That means I have twenty top colas and several side branches all competing with each other for light. With the single stem, I no longer just have the 20 top colas, but I was able to double my pants to 40. I now have 40 plants single stem that all get adequate lighting and aren't competing for light. The 40 colas are all bigger than the 20 sea of green because of the way I trimmed. Secondly, when I was running the 20 plants... everything around the main cola was decent, but not as big as it could have been. Now all that space is consumed by a main cola instead of side branches. Does that make sense? Little high and trying to pack too much info in here I think. Anyway, I hope this helps... It definitely has helped me. Take care and good luck!

I'd suggest that you google remove fan leaf adn see the first page of hits say do not remove them.

All pruning should be done and healed well before entering the flowering stage. Trimming now can be done, but it will probably cause at least a little stress to your plants. I have seen plants turn hermaphrodite after having a branch or two trimmed. Some genetics are more susceptible than others. If you do decide to trim (which very well might improve your overall yield, at least had you done it when you were supposed to) I would definitely do it ASAP. The longer you wait the more problems you are likely to encounter. GL

SP

Well yall are an hour late and a dollar short as usual. Just went ant trimmed some big fan leaves which was derpriving the bird nests things of light. How come yall want to always do stuff like this?

Now how do you know which is your boys and which is your girls prior to flowering? Thanks.

Aztros said:

I do single stem lollypop method. I cut all but the top cola off when I put my girls into flowering. Top growth is never affected by trimming. It becomes a problem when you cut something from the top you run the risk of stunting the branches under it. If you cut everything under the very top you'll be safe. I do this so that I will optimize my plants with the space I have. By cutting all but the top (future) cola, you are allowing the plant to send all of its energy into developing that cola. I do my first trimming at day one flowering, then I come back 7 days later when I change out the reservoir and cut off any more branches that may have developed moving away from the main stem off. I check my plants one more time at day 14 and trim them once more if they need it (usually don't) just any branches again that may have started to stray away from the main conglomerate of cola development. When all is said and done, you will begin to see one mega cola developing. The fan leaves may start to overlap, but you don't run into a whole bunch of side branches blocking others. If leaves start to get too big, you don't necessarily have to cut them off, but rather just trim the tips of each finger on the leaf shorter to allow more light to other leaves. For example in regards to growing like this, my setup can hold about 20 plants sea of green... That means I have twenty top colas and several side branches all competing with each other for light. With the single stem, I no longer just have the 20 top colas, but I was able to double my pants to 40. I now have 40 plants single stem that all get adequate lighting and aren't competing for light. The 40 colas are all bigger than the 20 sea of green because of the way I trimmed. Secondly, when I was running the 20 plants... everything around the main cola was decent, but not as big as it could have been. Now all that space is consumed by a main cola instead of side branches. Does that make sense? Little high and trying to pack too much info in here I think. Anyway, I hope this helps... It definitely has helped me. Take care and good luck!

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bigwheel said:

Now how do you know which is your boys and which is your girls prior to flowering? Thanks.

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Seriously, don't sweat it...practice makes perfect. Telling the male from the female isn't difficult. Give it time of religously keeping your plants on 12 hours of light and 12 of darknesss (complete darkness)---with no interruptions whatsoever. Time varies according to all sorts of circumstances as to when the sex will show. I'd say no more than a couple of weeks. Personally, I don't trim ANYTHING until I know the sex. I get very antsy to find out and will pull out the magnifying glass to tell ASAP. You will learn.......google it and get pictures. The pistil gleams in just the right background. I use black.....works best for me.

Roseman...that was a bad ass pic dude! I'd give you props but i gave you some recently.

I trim my plants during veg to prepare them for flowering. I normally cut the bottom 1/3 of the plant to increase lower air flow, make it easier to water and reduce the amount of popcorn nugs. During flowering, I only take off dead leaves. Yes!! there is bush concerns but it all works out in the end. You think you need more light towards the mid to lower portion but in reality - they all grow fine

Dude I have never had a problem with hermaphrodites or stunted growth... I get all of my plants from my mothers so they are always guaranteed female. You can also just flower all your plants and pull the males as they come and keep your ladies trimmed up. Now I know people are freaking you out by responding BAD IDEA, all I can say to that is they are wrong. I have never hurt my plants in any way. Now I can promise you that you will see a lot of problems if you try to top your plant and send it into flowering at the same time, but not if you do it separate. I've had plants I've sent into flowering that started to get too tall. As long as you wait a couple weeks, you can top it once it's adjusted to the new lighting schedule to get two colas that will be smaller and not as tall... Maybe that's what everyone is getting my advice confused with though, topping while flowering. I would never do that and yes it is ok to trim your plant as long as it is under the top cola. Whatever you decide though man, I wish you the best of luck. Take care!