Removed all Fan Leaves from my droopy plants. Am I messing up?

ive never removed all of them and i wouldnt advise anyone to do so but a lot of people do heavily prune their plants, leaving only the minimum, its a technique called lollypopping. its used when the grower has a number of plants in a confined space. search for lollypopping , there should be quite a few threads in here giving u details

dura72 said:

ive never removed all of them and i wouldnt advise anyone to do so but a lot of people do heavily prune their plants, leaving only the minimum, its a technique called lollypopping. its used when the grower has a number of plants in a confined space. search for lollypopping , there should be quite a few threads in here giving u details

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Thank you. I really did super-remove them. Because I perceived an emergency. I left the leaves that looked like budding sites. Thank you again.

Oh, one last thing. I didn't lollipop them exactly. I did lollipop, but I also removed all upper fan leaves, too. So it is just a really thinned out bush now with just the budding sites remaining.

How long did you wait after watering for them to perk up? If you let it dry out so much that the plant wilts, it can take 10-20 hours to recover to it's old self again.

Removing all the leaves will be detrimental to the plant. It needs those leaves to make energy.

you have a few things going on, and pruning is kinda its own issue.

Your real issue was watering, and I don't really see how chopping stuff off was going to help you out on that. They simply needed water. It's possible to let that go too long and to lose parts or the whole plant, but if it were to come to that it won't matter if you cut stuff off or not. To be complete, yes, the majority of the moisture is leeched through the leaves, however, the issue is not evaporation, the issue is lack of water. By cutting off leaves you are more addressing a symptom than the cause.

In the future, simply water liberally, give time to recover, and baby them for a bit. Cutting stuff off is not babying, it's stress.

If you cut off EVERY single fan leaf expect that plant to die rapidly. Never cut fan leaves.

Oh shit. I messed up.

I don't think so.
My buddy did his first grow this year, when I went over to check it out he had removed all the fan leaf cause he thought that was what the plants were suppose to look like.
Anyway, The plants survived, the plants grew a lot more sun leaves to make up for it. He ended up with half of what he could have got though.

I just finished growing a Bubba Kush plant along with five other strains. I got about a pound off her outdoors in my greenhouse. Very hearty plant.
I bet if you just kept the water consistent she will produce for you. I think what happened was she was thirsty and you drowned her, you didn't wait until the moisture balanced out before you freaked and pulled all the leaf off. Too little water or too much water will cause a plant to droop.