Cutting all fan leaves off till where it stated to flower...woops

I wasn't thinking clearly and without thinking cut all my fan leaves off nearly to the top where my plant had started too flower. So i have about four nodes of leaves and budding that has started for about two to three weeks now. my budding at the top is flowering very slowly is this to my stupidity or my setup.

-225W of Light
-it in a medium sized pot(6x6) (soil)
-using Tiger bloom fertilizer
-and nutes are fresh i have recycled the soil before flowering
-water about two days in a week

yer, dont cut all ya fan leaves off! lol

fuckin a woops. fan leaves are super important for energy storage. better luck next time.

Cutting fan leaves is never a good idea. I think this mistake occurs because people confuse removing fan leaves with removing lower growth to promote upper growth development. When you remove lower growth what you are removing is entire branches, not individual leaves. The idea is that those lower branches won't get enough light for their bud sites to develop fully, so why let the plant waste energy on them? By cutting them off you force the plant to redirect that energy into the main cola and other upper branches, and get larger top buds. Fan leaves on the other hand are the main energy production and storage sites for the plant. If you cut off an entire branch along with it's fan leaves you aren't really changing the ratio of fan leaves to growth sites on the plant, but removing just the fan leaves creates a situation where you have a ton of growth sites but only a few batteries/energy production sites to provide the power the rest of the plant is demanding.