Exactly.The lower buds will grow the same whether a fan leaf is over it or not. The buds don't contribute to photosynthesis that's what the leafs are for. Their the solar panels, your plant is the factory and your bud is the final manufactured product.
Now obviously if the leaves are unhealthy get em out of there and if it really bothers you to have your bud sites covered by a leaf why not just tuck it under the branch instead of hacking off healthy pieces of a plant. I know that farmers don't practice removing healthy leaves off of there tomato plants, or any plants for that matter. MJ isn't all that different from other plants.
BTW I love this, When I first started growing everyone told me to flush my plants to rid of any chemicals and essentially starve out my plant causing it to canabalis on it'self thus causing the leafs to turn yellow and wither and die up untill the end. I did 3 seperate indepth flushing experiments, and the results were as expected, irradic and subjective to the person (talking about the effect on taste). I have never been a fan of taking wonderful care of my plant just to hold back nutrients in what I consider one of the most crucial phases of the bud plant (the last few weeks) And from my experience gardening I never want any of my cucumbers, tomatoes or anything for that matter turning yellow and withering away once it's fruiting. Healthy Plants = Healthy Fruit/Flowers.Now, just in case someone STILL didn't get it, try to keep as many fans leaves healthy and green right up to harvest as you can.
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are you hitting on me? hahaha^^I agree and i like your name...that's what i named my johnson
If it's stupid and makes no botanical sense, you'll find it right here amongst cannabis growers.I started out with gardening as a child and then started growing MJ a few yrs ago, I was amazed in how different people think MJ is compared to other plants, like it's some magical plant or somethings.
BTW I love this, When I first started growing everyone told me to flush my plants to rid of any chemicals and essentially starve out my plant causing it to canabalis on it'self thus causing the leafs to turn yellow and wither and die up untill the end. I did 3 seperate indepth flushing experiments, and the results were as expected, irradic and subjective to the person (talking about the effect on taste). I have never been a fan of taking wonderful care of my plant just to hold back nutrients in what I consider one of the most crucial phases of the bud plant (the last few weeks) And from my experience gardening I never want any of my cucumbers, tomatoes or anything for that matter turning yellow and withering away once it's fruiting. Healthy Plants = Healthy Fruit/Flowers.
Healthy and green all the way up to harvest... amen.