Trimmimg Shade Leaves?

we started this plant outside so the shade leaves are much larger than the new groth (we moved it inside under a 1000 watt 5 days ago) and we are wondering about any potential damage we might cause by trimmimg these leaves off (talking about the 2 bigest leaves in the pic)
whats your opinion?
does anyone do this?

y u wanna do that?

emily.m.grant said:

does anyone do this?

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just dumb newbies

There are only limited circumstances under which removing fan leaves can be argued as helpful:

- Disease or pest infecting the area
- The leaf is dying anyway, and may result in fungus if not removed
- Problems with air circulation due to vegetation
- To promote growth in a desired area (ie. branching), and accepting the resulting net growth loss in the plant

In general, pruning fan leaves is a bad idea.

Everyone above is correct. Those fan leaves are helping energize the plant, to take them off will slow the plant down.

Thanks to everyone for the advice. good to know ...I will NOT be doing this any time soon