LadyFarmer
New Member
I have experience pruning lots of fruit, vegetables, vines, and trees so learning to prune my baby has required some restraint (I want to prune it to death I am afraid.) I have a good understanding of the nodes/growth tip the difference between topping and fimming- My question is when I FIM why do I need to cut the fan leaves at all -can't I carefully only pinch out the growing tip by folding the fan leaves back?
I've seen some growers point out the grown out pinched leaves so I guess I just don't understand why they need to be damaged in the fimming process (besides that it may be easier). I figure there must be something I am missing so I'll check in before doing something dumb!
I've seen some growers point out the grown out pinched leaves so I guess I just don't understand why they need to be damaged in the fimming process (besides that it may be easier). I figure there must be something I am missing so I'll check in before doing something dumb!