Fan leaves hitting tent walls

I'm in a 3x3x6 tent and I am 5 days into flower ("stretch"). I'm a first time grower and I have 2 plants in 5 gallon dwc buckets. The plants look great but the fan leaves are starting to push up against the tent walls. I'm wondering what my best options are. I know it's not ideal to trim/lollipop during the first 21 days or so of flowering, but wondering how much "damage" it's doing with the leaves pushed up against the walls? Should I keep it the way it and just deal with it? Or should I go ahead and trim some? Looks like I'm learning the hard way that I should've LST'd (I did top twice on each plant).

Your fine, keep growing! and maybe feed her a little more, looks like no real problems though good luck!

You can still lst them. Not gonna keep your leaves off the walls though. I dont worry about it in my tent

also it is ideal to trim during the first 21 days its not ideal to trim after that

before on day 7 of flower
after

ignore the streching, i over vegged them awaiting a new light, they will be fine im sure

Gwhiliker said:

also it is ideal to trim during the first 21 days its not ideal to trim after that

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Really? I thought you weren't supposed to mess with them during stretch since it's such an explosive part of the growth you wouldn't want to stunt it?

right before flip and then around day 21, the plant will tell you.

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Gwhiliker said:

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ignore the streching, i over vegged them awaiting a new light, they will be fine im sure

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ebcrew said:

right before flip and then around day 21, the plant will tell you.

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I choose #2 nowadays...

im scared to go 21 days but ill see next time

Fan leave hitting tent walls? So what?

I'm not a fan of removing any fan leaves. Some do, I don't. Leaves are the engines that power the plant. The more surface area for photosynthesis the more energy the plants make to feed the flowers.

Lol your tent is only half full man. Let em touch, it will be just fine.

Thanks everybody! I really appreciate it. Sounds like I should let her grow and then will clean up around day 21 just a bit.