cutting fan leaves during flowering covering buds,

can cutting fan leaves or touching the buds do the plant harm

its the fan leaves that use the light to make energy to enlarge the buds.why cut your energy producers?

Wats up Jack, u should try to touch the buds as little as possible b/c the oils in our skin is helpful in any kind of way but it wont do much harm at all. And instead of cuttin the fan leaves try LST or jus tucking the big leaves behind the bud spot. During the floweirng process the buds feed of of the neutrients that the fan leaves hold.

jackhunter said:

can cutting fan leaves or touching the buds do the plant harm

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Only cut or move fan leaves if they are A. burned to a crisp or B. blocking a really large bud spot, preferably lst them though, like the guy above said you're getting shit from those leaves during flowering.

Why is there suddenly a raft of newbees wanting to cut off leaves on their plant? Where yall comin up with that? Just stop it!! Put the goddamned shears DOWN!!

doser said:

Why is there suddenly a raft of newbees wanting to cut off leaves on their plant? Where yall comin up with that? Just stop it!! Put the goddamned shears DOWN!!

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Theyre getting scissor happy lol.

The leaves provide energy to help develop buds.....direct sun on the buds does not. Leave those leaves alone

I *ONLY* cut if I *CAN'T* LST or bend the shit outta it to make some light. You can bend the fan leaves or bend the effected bud stem.

now im not sayin ur not right but then if all those leaves are getting all that light then why are the lower sites not as well formed or as big

caveman420 said:

now im not sayin ur not right but then if all those leaves are getting all that light then why are the lower sites not as well formed or as big

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good thing i tried seemed to work takes some fukin around just tie your leaves down be careful thoe they are brittle

Not only do I not cut ANYTHING off but I duct tape any leaf back on that falls off.

^ahaha. Listen to this guy. Do not abuse your plant plz.

I completely disagree wit removing fan leaves.... however if ur plant is outside and still in veg state I had a friend that makes it a ritual to remove a couple hundred leaves offf of his plant for penetration purposes and they have turned out superbly budded arms and some buds being almost 6 ft. Never got a chance to try it myself but like I said this is mainly for an outside monstre. Inside avoid single cola plants that way u can use wire and pull the plant open (with bushes)

caveman420 said:

now im not sayin ur not right but then if all those leaves are getting all that light then why are the lower sites not as well formed or as big

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Indoor lighting is subject to the inverse square law. Basically the light gets exponentially less intense the further away from the source it is. So lower leaves will always get less light, and therefore harness less energy from it.

Ripping off fan leaves isn't a good solution, though. Some people trim off the lower growth before initiating flowering (those branches can potentially become clones). Another good solution is to just add more light, such as high-wattage CFL's or high output fluorescent tubes. A couple CFLs make for great side lighting and can certainly increase the yield from lower branches.

doser said:

Why is there suddenly a raft of newbees wanting to cut off leaves on their plant? Where yall comin up with that? Just stop it!! Put the goddamned shears DOWN!!

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kinda seen vids on me-tube where folks are cutting off most of the fan leaves .... looks like dollop to me

I have experimented with this only to gather more info on what it actually does to a flowering plant to remove fan/sun leaves. I found that fan leaves that were removed directly affected bud growth on the node the fan leaf came from. On another plant I tucked it under the flowering top and the buds grew more dense and seemed better all around. So like everybody else says, only remove fan leaves if they are so yellow or crispy that they are easily pulled off by hand and trust me they will just pop right off easily. If they are just covering a budsite and it bothers you so much just tuck it under another leaf and get it out of the way, it will still gather energy from your lights or the sun.

doser said:

Why is there suddenly a raft of newbees wanting to cut off leaves on their plant? Where yall comin up with that? Just stop it!! Put the goddamned shears DOWN!!

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All it takes is one stubborn person to s it worked for him and he doesnt care what other say. Just got done reading a thread exactly about this subject. And he was completly convinced cutting most of his fans leaves, because they were blocking light, helped his buds. He was using leds, and later complained he had to add more light because buds were small.

onewize1 said:

I completely disagree wit removing fan leaves.... however if ur plant is outside and still in veg state I had a friend that makes it a ritual to remove a couple hundred leaves offf of his plant for penetration purposes and they have turned out superbly budded arms and some buds being almost 6 ft. Never got a chance to try it myself but like I said this is mainly for an outside monstre. Inside avoid single cola plants that way u can use wire and pull the plant open (with bushes)

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Thats it exactly it though. Gte a bigger light if you want more light penetration. Cutting leaves is counter productive.

Leaves do more then block light to sites you want light to!

check this out this is the newbie area. Don't cut on your plants if you are not a experienced grower . Opening up your plant to bugs is a bad idea . Save the clipping and trimming for after you have had and dealt with a few bug issues successfully . That way when you get some open spots on your plants and get a pest problem from it you will know what to do . Just my rookie advise, and it's only worth what you paid for it .