Too much foliage with Flora series in top-feed system

BUMP!
Well, that was probably the most helpful reply I've ever seen! Thanks BmB. All that trash about fan leaves being the factories of the plant are true, but that didn't explain some things. When I think of them as water regulators, that shit makes all the sense in the world! I bet there are so many people out there with pH problems because they cut all their fan leaves off. Also, I guess the trichome thing never really clicked. I knew to wait for cloudiness (Cervantes book, that should say 'for beginners' on it), but never could find the botany of the situation. It's like the cloudiness is the thc building up, eh? And it (the the) turns amber as it degrades? Werd.
Also, I didn't realize the anxiety part. In that beginners book, says to harvest when half trichs are cloudy for a sativa. I guess I'm trying to figure out the timing of my flush. I'd like a week, but soo much can change in a week. Once, a plant died overnight. Literally. Tha results were excellent, but still. Aaaaanyways, I already have low-0level baseline anxiety, so you've helped a lot. BUMP!

Another interesting thing about fan leaves; They actually syphon up the nutrients. I..E. When you cut fan leaves off your plant, you are taking from the full potential of that stem. Without fan leaves to suck up nutrients the plant would lose a high % of nutrition.