How to trim fan leaves to focus energy on flowers?

Final Phase said:

I've been cutting the middle leaf from each set of leaves if that middle leaf is shading a flower - which happens A LOT.
By doing this the supply from the set of leaves isn't cut off.
By doing this I have no idea if it's helping the flowers/buds to get bigger or better...
It does give me something do so I don't fuck something else up

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Gotta a little case of OCD do we (obsessive-compulsive disorder)?

Translation - leave the damn things alone to grow naturally.

Cutting/Removing fans = stupid.

Leave them alone.

Uncle Ben said:

Gotta a little case of OCD do we (obsessive-compulsive disorder)?

Translation - leave the damn things alone to grow naturally.

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Uncle Ben said:

Gotta a little case of OCD do we (obsessive-compulsive disorder)?

Translation - leave the damn things alone to grow naturally.

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No I have a case of "Now what the fuck do I do? Seriously, I'm retired and at the moment writing emails back and forth to a lady who is being smart and taking her time getting to know me... Soooo, I make music, then clean up the house... Garden time once a day for 30 min. to 2 hrs... I want to start a huge painting and have a canvas framed up ... Too fucking lazy! TV? I look forward to Baseball and the Californina Angels...

So now I'm wondering... If the plant reacts to photosynthesis... A very weak amount of light can only trigger so much energy transformation - IMO
If that is true - more light on a bud would trigger more growth - Isn't that right, if not someone please explain so I can find another way to spend my day!

From what I can reason - Cutting the middle leaf off means it's going to be fed less from the leaves. The flowers get more light so they grow better - I HOPE... So is this a trade off? Less food makeing it less potent in exchange for more bud? By the way - I haven't ever been able to tell if the flower/bud actually gets bigger or more dense?

In ten years science will get growing herb down to a science. We won't have to do all this experimenting - we will be able to grow it in a scientific manner = Happy growers...

Here's what I do.

These are my lowers. Instead of clipping off everything, only remove the bud site. You can see I've done it on many branches. Clip the bud site but leave the fan leaves alone.

The leaves will instead feed the top of the branch rather than a popcorn nug.

I trim fans to instigate that node to grow to another apex. Training.

Cannabis grows in a fractal pattern. Every time you remove a fan leaf, that stress activates a hormone that signals the next step in life which is bud life. This hormone signals root cell creation and the widening of the vascular system. That node starts turning into a tiny copy of the whole, so every node has a cola of its own and the apexial cola on the main stalk. This happens naturally in flower stage.

***When you "clone", you're just healing the wound with a rooting hormone. Google adventitious rooting.

In this particular case, yes, taking fans off do divert nutrients to the adjacent node via these new rooting cells/expanded vascular bundle. You can see the physical change in the stem as it transitions. <insert Caitlyn Jenner joke here>

I recently rejuvenated an ogk and it grew huge and fast. The root ball was already big from the initial grow so it had a diesel foundation to grow from. This is the same principle, really.

We should be grateful that there's a plant as rugged as this one for us to practice our horticulture on. Lol.