lime73
Weed Modifier
Never transplant during flowering!
Only time will tell now ...if it bounces back.
Back off distance of light for a bit , will help minimize stress, hopefully it comes back around for you.
Do you have a pic?
will buds continue to grow if plant has no fan leaves?
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Only time will tell now ...if it bounces back.
Back off distance of light for a bit , will help minimize stress, hopefully it comes back around for you.
Do you have a pic?
Hi. It's an outside plant. I'll take picture. Do you think I should just harvest it now.?
Wizzlebiz
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lime73
Weed Modifier
I dont see a pic.
Correct. The flowering plant will still grow. The "green" buds are also photosynthetic. Not as much as the fan leaves though. I harvested 2/3 of a plant and let the lower "popcorn", "suckers" continue to grow. Since the plant was already in late bloom, the bottom leaves started getting nutrient deficiency and leaves turned yellow and many died.
Plant is still growing buds.
ISK
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now it's a 11 year old thread that just won't die
Harper J
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Closer pic with natural lighting please.
Do u see fire as herbs just randomly growing in nature ??? He’ll no it’s reason we do shit difrent indoors with grow lights but if ur outside u have more then enough light every Wich ways
Samwell Seed Well
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Short answer no
Long answer of course
Long answer of course
Dr. Who
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Start you OWN thread and ask again!
Dr. Who
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Dan_k_ganja
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so after 11 years, whats the coconscious? To Trim or not to Trim?
midgesmith
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I don't think there is a full consensus still. There seem to be as many for defoliation as there are against though. Perhaps because lollipopping seems to be a productive technique? Perhaps it is because different growers have different anecdotal evidence.
I have just burned the living daylights out of almost all the fan-leaves on my last crop with lights too close to the top (they're dwarf plants anyway, most of the plant is at the top) and with a nutrient / pH balancing cockup in soil.
The plants stalled while I was normalizing the problem and now they are just a few buds and sugar leaves. BUT, they are maturing and they are growing, slowly but surely.
I'd say - lollipopping apart - it is better to leave fan leaves on if you can. Trimming leaves that you can't tuck out of the way can help light and air to reach the lower and central parts of a plant, but I've not seen benefits to removing fan leaves wholesale.
To be honest, I haven't seen enough benefit to tucking fan leaves to prove the theory, but it would seem to make sense. Reading around the topic, from what I understand anyway, sugars produced by leaves are shared among the plant to an extent, but it seems that sugars are mainly utilized close to the site of production.
So, leaving fan leaves on near buds would appear to be the best way for those buds to access the most energy for growth. That said, large leaves shading otherwise promising buds could cause less growth overall as they feed local buds, but starve the buds below of light.
I guess the answer is that removing some leaves will help in some circumstances and hinder in others. You have to work out where the most gain lies. Like, a big fan leaf shading a whole branch vertically will mean less energy for a whole branch, whereas removing it (providing there are other fan-leaves on the same tranche) would have marginal effect on the local bud's energy levels.
Having seen the result of nearly total fan leaf defoliation this time (albeit linked to heat and nutrient burn / lockout), I won't be putting a totalitarian regime into place myself. Each leaf should be judged on its own merit imho and the plants I have grown without removing leaves for the sake of it have fared better than those where leaves were removed in greater numbers - for experimental purposes or by accident.
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Because they don't know what they are doing haha
Killuminatie
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depends on strain and the way you grow it? lst indica 8w veg for e.g.. id like to think I could tie every leaf down like most people advise, i find it impossible
