Help! fan leaves got cut

Hello to all, i came home from work today only to discover that all of the fan leaves except the top two sets on all my plants were cut off. The explanation for this from my room mate was that he thought "the lower branches need light so i removed the fan leafs" i explained to him that they need the fan/sun leafs for energy and growth. Will my babes be ok and survive or will this have no effect on them at all?

Your room mate is a huge idiot, time to pull out that gun.

how old are the plants?

they should be ok but your gona have to give them time to recover and grow back some foliage before you can flower, recon he just made your grow 4 weeks or so longer.

as long as u didnt cut all ur fan leafs off u should b ok..might take a while for them to recover but u should b ok..usually if fan leafs block light u trim em a little bit not cut them off..next time just cut 30-50% of the fan leaf off to create better light

I cut fan leaves off during my whole grow from start to finish one time as an experiment... Also, I didn't use any nutes, and only watered with tap water... The end product was still very nice. My avitar picture is of the plant I am talking about.

Still though, the plant does need the leaves for best growth, but CAN survive without most of them.

I guess some good advice would be to make it where the leaves aren't in the way by doing LST next time.

The problem is that it is a week into flowering am i screwed?

tokeythebear said:

The problem is that it is a week into flowering am i screwed?

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Well your yield is likely to suffer. I hope you gave your roommate a good gut punch.

OP: Is your roommate related to this guy?

http://www.marijuanapassion.com/forum/showthread.php?t=38984

Make your roomie read that thread, and then he will realize how dumb he is for removing the fan leaves. Everyone else should read it for a great laugh though.

Yeah, if your in flowering he just stunted the shit out of the plants.
They will survive, yeah.... it will take about a month (4 weeks) to regrow the lost foilage...... I would reveg the plants under 24/h lighting asap or else your plant will have shitty buds man

I think you should cut off you roommates arms and be like my bad I thought your feet needed more light.

LOL....some very animated answers in here for sure

'Never mess with someone else's grow....

svchop889 said:

I think you should cut off you roommates arms and be like my bad I thought your feet needed more light.

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Thank's for all of your help and advice guys, i'am very disappointed and upset with my roommate but at this point in the game i guess the only choice is to keep it in flowering and make due with the low yeld

Just a word to the wise.

You will be fine. I say just keep at it, but it will be a bit longer. You should probably look into putting lock on your door because I bet your roomie also brings his friends/girls in to show off the grow. With all that, one day you will come in and it will be gone. Who can you call then, the police? What was taken....my pot....You cant do that shit, and you will probably not even know who did it, nor will your roomate. I hope that all goes well.

ouch, that really hurts. i'd be tempted to switch back to veg if your only 1 week in flower. them fan leaves are very very important.

I'll plan on a trip to walmart tonight to grab a lock and he knows better than to bring anyone over, let alone show them my plants but you never know who you can trust these days. I plan on moving out relatively soon than i wont have to face these imbosol issues.

darkdestruction420 said:

ouch, that really hurts. i'd be tempted to switch back to veg if your only 1 week in flower. them fan leaves are very very important.

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Do you think that may cause the plant to turn hermi though?

probally not. i suppose their is a slight risk, but nothing i would worry about.

If i were to leave it in flowering would my yield be effected greatly or would she pull through with a satisfying yield?

its gonna hurt your yield alot. like you said, those leaves are the main and most effecient energy sources of the plant, without them you have ALOT less energy going towards the buds.

yeah, its worth it to reveg.... the benefits outweigh the risk for sure.... stickem in 24/h light

How long should i re-veg for?