ouch, that hurts man. I'm sorry for your loss dude, defoliating the plant just takes away vital energy making leaves, the bigger a leaf is the more efficient it is and the more energy is made and stored there. Icmg is not a good place to get your info from. I see people on their give terrible advice and/or try to promote something thats just plain not true and then we have to break the bad news to the people who followed that advice. I guarantee you the plant would be doing much much much much better and be much much much much bigger if you had not cut off any fan leaves. oh well, at least you learned something from the mistake and wont do it again. if you absolutely insist on doing something with the big fan leaves tie them out of the way, but thats pointless, heres something ALOT of people dont know, when the light hits those top leaves it doesnt all stop, it continues down to the leaves under it. only about 15% of it it absorbed i believe, im going to go look for uncle bens post about this, he knows alot more than i do.
