Prune fan leaves in flowering?

Is it appropriate to cut the fan leaves at the flowering stage?
Have any benefits?

No.

Also, ib4 15 pages of arguments about 'defoliation'.

if they are shading the flowers those can go and when they start to turn from green to yellow remove those and if they don't get any light at all those can go too because they're not doing anything.

backtracker said:

if they are shading the flowers those can go and when they start to turn from green to yellow remove those and if they don't get any light at all those can go too because they're not doing anything.

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So much false. First off, 'shading flowers' doesn't even mean anything because flowers don't photosynthesize. Leaves photosynthesize. Secondly, if your leaves start to turn yellow in quantity it is a sign that you are under feeding the plant. The solution isn't to start cutting, the solution is to make sure your plant is getting what it needs to thrive. Thirdly, even if a leaf isn't getting much light it can be a useful resource for the plant to pull nutrients from if it should run into a deficiency due to inadequate feeding or pH issues.

I totally agree with you guys do not remove them. I had read several articles and several books but in conclusion it is not necessary if they were healthy they were beneficial for the photocintesis. To produce the energy in this final stage. that's my opinion. thanks to all

THCBrain said:

Do you know how to grow weed? That's the 2nd statement you've made today that's utter bollucks op don't listen to this clampit.

Any fan leaves in the way of bud just move them to one side of the them gently out the way, if you cut it off your in effect starving your plant, those fan leaves = food and energy!

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Agree with you. While more solar panels more energy "and an adequate pattern of nutrients.

so you kno i did same plant side by side and i agree with above statement flowers on defoil side was smaller and importantly less dense... so if leaf is over 50% damaged take off. but leave them leaves on..

be sure to weigh the removed material remove an equal weight of root mass for a complete experience.

if you do anything to your plant. it would be lollypop so your colas stay in the sweet zone. just get rid of that under larff...ya wanna concentrate on training plant to get all of available light first before taking off leaves. to access light. imo. hope this helps

chemphlegm said:

be sure to weigh the removed material remove an equal weight of root mass for a complete experience.

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your right . but gave me a good idea. thanks

Totally agree with not defoliating as a beginner, but once you've got a few rounds you get it. I don't defoliate anything off the top, just crap on the bottom I know I won't want to spend any time trimming. Not interested in tons of larf but I still get plenty. Less is more with defoliating in my experience.

*Leaves are the reason water&nutrient uptake occurs.

*Leaves turn light energy into chemical engery

*Leaves control chemical waste of the plant.

*Leaves make photosynthate (plant food)

The information is pretty much straight forward, and uncontestable.

Removing leaves is not going to help increase yield. Instead, better light intensity, and/or better photonic distribution over the entire leaf pool will increase yield.

I've been in heated discussions in the past here on RIU, and, even though I'm not innocent, I don't think name calling is the best method to educate ignorance. ..food for thought.

backtracker said:

When a plant no longer needs a leaf it will let it die and fall off. As a plant flowers it will lose fan leaves that's natural because it used those to grow big and fast with but no longer needs them because it doesn't take as much energy to flower. There's microbes in the soil feeding the plant too. The plant keeps the leaves it needs to finish flowering but if they are kept green with ferts the plant builds up nitrite and nitrates so when it's harvested it's loaded with them and they're not good for you to smoke so if the plant is allowed to lose those leaves naturaly it will use the stored nitrites so your smoke isn't full of that shit.

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Leaves die in fall off naturally, sure, but not because the plant says it's time.

Instead, as photosynthesis occurs, chlorophyll breaks down in a process called "photoexitation", where electrons are stolen from each pigment (including chlorophyll), and used in photo system 2, during the Calvin Cycle.

As leaves on the lower growth received less photons, the leaf cant maintain ATP levels to continue the Calvin Cycle, and chlorosis occurs. Part of this is that older growth has a lower sink strength, and the plant food makes it way to new growth (high sink strength) first.

The Calvin Cycle is like an engine. It uses most of the energy it makes to make more energy. Only small amounts of APT it creates, is used for G3P production, and later carbohydrates (sugar), and Photosynthate.

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