Is it okay to trim clawed fan leaves during veg?

I have a 5 week old, 15 inch plant that is incredibly full from top to bottom. My plant unfortunately in the past two plus weeks has suffered through nutrient burn and transplant shock when I moved "her" (I hope it will be a she) into a 5 gallon container from a 1 gallon container. I use MG Moisture control soil for vegetables, but did not flush the soil as much as I should of during transplant. The lower fan leaves developed the claw, and never snapped back.

I gave her some superthrive and she seemed to snap out of the transplant shock last week. Ontop of all of this, I had to treat my plants with neem oil and diatamaceous earth for amphids that suddenly showed up on my plants. Just a 2 or three, but enough for me to be concerned.

The plant has grown despite this drama with new robust fan leaves and new bud sites, 3/4 of the way up. Its just the lower fan leaves from the second set of true branches down to the base are leathery and clawed.

I trimmed a few of the sickly looking leaves off. (Dark green to light green, but clawed, and funky looking. Did I just put my plant into shock again? Oh, and I topped it 2 days ago. I am a newb, and I was terrified of topping, worrying that I was putting too much stress on my plant.

I've read so many conflicting opinions about trimming fan leaves. But what is the right thing to do when the leaves are clawed, and look disfigured?

Thanks.

If you have to ask then don't do it.

amphids that suddenly showed up on my plants

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yes when a plant is shocked/stressed it is open to disease ,bugs, mites etc. When you transplant next time make sure it is rootbound, no loose soil or lateral roots dangling everywhere when you transplant. When you have a a good root ball when transplanting the plant seems to continue as if not even disturbed, also make sure a plant is very healthy before or it wont handle it. When this shock happens the plant never really recovers so just hope for the best.

i would say it depends on what is your bigger problem in your grow, is it the lightning? not too much then trim.. Usually if you have a good set up you don't need to. There is no such thing as a clear answer really..

your version of claw may not be actual claw...which comes from too much N most of the time but not always. pix would help. even clawed leaved photosynthesize so i wouldn't trim them. actual claw will slow down the rate at which your plant matures and it will finish later, will not frost up normally and will consume more energy. i managed to get actual claw in mb 1 out of 20 plants regardless of what i did. so i basically just chalked it up to experience and used the plants for collecting triches as kief. clawed plants don't turn out well enough to sell because the chlorophyll doesn't break down enough and the taste of the finished buds is pretty bad but the triches, once separated from the leaves are almost as good as unclawed plants.

Its my plants bottom leaves that have the "claw" and are freaky looking.(4 or 5 big fan leaves) The rest of the plant 3/4 up looks healthy. I'll see about getting pics soon.

My light set-up is 90 watt led full spectrum ufo lamp, for this plant and a 4wk old northern light autoflower, I am also running 700 watts on cfls for supplemental lighting. I should mention I have 3 other bagseed plants that are in my "grow room". All of my other plants are perfect, no claws, or freaky leaves.

This was why I was wondering if the bottom claw leaves should be trimmed.

I am hoping with the tremendous number of leaves this plant has that are healthy, these deformed leaves on the bottom won't be too damaging.