What would Happen if i Cut off most/All my Plant's Leaves?

asdewqasdfgh

asdewqasdfgh

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I had a one month old plant that i screwed up in the process of topping. In the spur of the moment i just cut off the rest of the leaves except for 2. just curious, will this allow the plant to focus it's energy on the developing budding sites or will it stress the plant to its death?
 
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hckyguy77

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or you could hermie it and then all of your time is waisted. if your going to trim your plant i would never go over 1/3 of the plants leaves at a time
 
cannawizard

cannawizard

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**if your plant could talk, it would tell you "stop touching me" :).. put down the scissors & and leave it be, youve topp'd.. which is fine, but removing leafs to focus "energy" towards the bud sites = doesnt make sense ---since the things you are cutting off, are the sites that create this "energy" ;)

--cheers
 
Harrekin

Harrekin

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It's the same as saying would you be able to concentrate on running a marathon if someone cut your legs off?
 
racerboy71

racerboy71

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fdd2blk said:
what "energy"?

plants get their ENERGY from their LEAVES.
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lol, exactly this.. when you think about plants, the leaves are the things that hang out in the light and collect light energy and convert it to foods and sugars via photsynthesis,.... no leaves, no photosynthesis, no energy for plant, pretty much equals a dead plant shortly.. :(
 
Harrekin

Harrekin

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racerboy71 said:
well, could you??? :)
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I could sure try, but I'd fail miserably and no doubt come last...same analogy for how the leaf-less plant is gonna turn out ;)

OP,I think you should euthanise that girl and don't let it waste space in your grow area. Another plant (with leaves this time) even started much later will way outproduce ( yield and quality) the current "disadvantaged" one.
 
racerboy71

racerboy71

bud bootlegger
Harrekin said:
I could sure try, but I'd fail miserably and no doubt come last...same analogy for how the leaf-less plant is gonna turn out ;)

OP,I think you should euthanise that girl and don't let it waste space in your grow area. Another plant (with leaves this time) even started much later will way outproduce ( yield and quality) the current "disadvantaged" one.
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i tend to agree.. by the time this plant gets over the shock of being leafless, if it ever does, it's going to take awhile for her to catch up, and i'm sure your yield will suffer horribly from this mishap..
it would probably just be easier and safer to start a new plant again.. :)
 
racerboy71

racerboy71

bud bootlegger
asdewqasdfgh said:
ok so plants photosynthesis from their leaves! gotcha. thanks for the tip!

ps, the plant is now in the dumpster ;)
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yah, next time you're thinking of doing something pretty drastic to your baby, it's not a bad idea to ask a simple question here BEFORE you do it, lol..
not trying to bust your balls or anything, this is how people learn, but sometimes costly mistakes like this can be avoided and you still learn the same lesson by asking first is all..
i'm sure you'll never make this mistake in a grow again though, which like i said, is how we learn, it just sucks to have effed up a whole plant to have to learn this lesson is all..
 
asdewqasdfgh

asdewqasdfgh

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yea i appreciate it. next grow things will be a lot different. im not stressing about ruining the plant, i had a hunch that it was a male and im under the impression that i am still left with 2 healthy ladies
 
racerboy71

racerboy71

bud bootlegger
asdewqasdfgh said:
yea i appreciate it. next grow things will be a lot different. im not stressing about ruining the plant, i had a hunch that it was a male and im under the impression that i am still left with 2 healthy ladies
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very cool.. males make great expirements if they are the only plants that you have to work with... they can be fun to play around with and do all kinds of crazy shit to them and not have to worry about killing them or w/e.. you can tie them down, train them, top them all over, supercrop, lst, fim, over water, under water, take off every other leaf, w/e you can think of lol..
they're a great tool to use to learn a plant and its limits without worrying about what happens to them...

and they're are pretty much two trains of thought of removing leaves.. some people like to remove all of the bottom leaves and branches, called lolipopping, and others such as myself, don't like to remove any leaves aside from anything that maybe pretty much dead.. :)
 
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Afka

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You're even dumber for having thrown it out. It was a plant in veg, all you had to do was leave it there and do nothing.
 
Total Head

Total Head

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i don't know if i would have reccomended throwing the plant away. sure it's not going to do so hot but it would have been a good learning experience to watch the progression of a plant that has no leaves as compared to the healthier plants. i learned my lesson about needing healthy fan leaves as a cheapskate noob. i under-ferted, the leaves died, the plant basically shit the bed. it's more of a lesson when you watch it happen imo.
 
Stomata

Stomata

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Afka said:
You're even dumber for having thrown it out. It was a plant in veg, all you had to do was leave it there and do nothing.
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+1. The leaves would have more than likely came back with little to no effect. Extreme defoliation in flower isn't a good idea, but in veg, it more than likely wouldn't have hurt anything. Sorry, but anyone that says otherwise is full of shit. I know this from experience. I'm not just telling you shit that I've heard other people say.

Long story short, you threw away the plant for no reason.
 
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