Trimming 3-4 weeks into flowering?

while the fan leaves are the main photosynthesizers for the plant, your growing bud in the end......not leaves. If a budsite doesnt get adequate light, it wont develope and gain weight. If its possible, tuck the fan leaf under so that you expose the budsite, but your not doing any damage. If thats not possible, pull the leaf off and spread some light around. In the end the plant will have less leaves :( but more bud :)

Once you get through a few grows and really get comfortable with cannabis you start to realize that as long as your gentle you can do damn near anything to these plants. Bend them, top them, Super crop them..........it all depends on your preference.



everyone does things there own way so there isnt really a right or wrong answer. I just want you to hear it from someone who has some experience trimming, rather than someone who read the grow bible and is reciting it back to you.

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Originally Posted by Purple Daddy

This is one of those things that many growers have mixed feelings about so really whatever you feel comfortable doing.>>>>

I don't know about that, everyone I've read says not to touch sun leaves until they die.

Pruning and trimming sun leaves are two different things.

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ive done side by side grows with the same strain. The plants that i trimmed outyielded my other plants by about 1 ounce each.(each one varied a little) It tends to open up the middle part of the canopy that is generally shaded by fan leaves,

You can bend the hell out of the branches to open up the center to more light. My plants were getting too tall so I had no choice and you'd be amazed at how much bending you can do with branches. I've never been comfortable cutting off fan leaves. I trimmed off all lower vegetation on a few plants before they started budding and they produced very large buds on all remaining branches.

Newbies should leave a healthy plant alone. Period. No "bright" ideas, no experiments, no snake oils or miracle products. Learn to take a plant to harvest, get to know the process...THEN do what you want. At least this way you'll be more likely to spot the issues you've caused before they get out of hand.

If you over-stress your ladies, there's usually no turning back.

Newbies should leave a healthy plant alone. Period. No "bright" ideas, no experiments, no snake oils or miracle products. Learn to take a plant to harvest, get to know the process...THEN do what you want. At least this way you'll be more likely to spot the issues you've caused before they get out of hand.
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I totally agree, from personal experience it's best to water and feed them properly. I've lost a few plants from trying to juice them while they were flowering and it's a pretty sick feeling.

Nothing worse than realizing you'll have to start from scratch, 'eh?

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Originally Posted by drudown11

ive done side by side grows with the same strain. The plants that i trimmed outyielded my other plants by about 1 ounce each.(each one varied a little) It tends to open up the middle part of the canopy that is generally shaded by fan leaves,

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yeah but half way through flower isnt the time to be slowing growth down. this person should on the next round plan ahead. some strais can be more vigorous and can take some abuse. my thought is figure something else out.

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Originally Posted by Rusty Trichome

Nothing worse than realizing you'll have to start from scratch, 'eh?

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yeah no doubt, it does make for some valuable schooling though:thumbsup:

the only thing i worry about when removing leafs is clean tools ,fingers and nails> you dont want to give a bacteria/disease to your plants. And dont remove just any leaf, just the ones pumping up juice for nothing!
Oh yeah if it's facing down and does not see any light at all usually means it"s a removable leaf! it's like first little starter branchs at the bottom of the plant they suck juice from the plant for nothing! So removing them is good. When the plant is strong and ready!!!

but dont over do it. or it will slow your plants for couple days or more.and if you remove them all like I have seen some people do well.......major faux pas!!!