Just wondering if clipping some of the larger fan leaves would hurt or hinder the plant. My thinking is it will let even some more light to the bottom branches
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Just wondering if clipping some of the larger fan leaves would hurt or hinder the plant. My thinking is it will let even some more light to the bottom branches
Hey,
Pruning fan leaves isn't LST, LST is the training of the plant by bending it and tying it down so that it grows numerous cola's.
As far as general pruning goes, some people swear by it and cut lots of leaves off, while others never cut anything. The way I see it is there's no problem pruning a few leaves now and then if there's a good reason (get more light to budsites or increase air circulation) but i wouldn't just do it for the sake of it. I personally like to prune a few of the lower leaves to increase the air flow beneath the canopy but prefer to tie the top leaves down rather than cut them off.
sorry, i meant was doing lst on the plant and it is already tied down, just wondering if it'd make a differnece to prune it a little. Thanks for answering the question
I would assume that cutting off major portions of the plants energy producers would be a bad idea.
But im a n00b still.
Stinky told me not to touch fan leaves unless they are about 80% yellow, at which point, you can pluck them off.
yeah, i was thinking of clipping a few to get even more light to the lower portions of the plant/bud sites, but at the same time i don't want to clip too many due to the fact the plant absorbs light thru it's leaves. Kinda a double edge sword it sounds like. I'm just going to let it grow i guess. Thanks for the info tho
Just have to see if the plant likes it. Remember they make the sugar for the plant. don't cut to many off. Maybe you should trim this time, and don't the next to see which is better
Why not just go all out with the LST and move the leaves out of the way with some twist ties or something. That way they still absorb some light, won't over-stress your lady, and allow for deeper light penetration.
Or just try trimming off the individual fingers of the leaves if you really need to.
I always found that will just cause the leave to dry out rendering it usless.Quote:
Originally Posted by GreenDestiny
if the plant is far enough along in flower then it wont make that much difference as long as you dont take off all the leaves I always trim a few shade leaves off abit of stress during late flower has always stimulated extra growth for me have a play every plants different
cool thanks. they are about week 3 in veg. ill try moving them out of the way somehow.
3 weeks into veg is a tad early to start chopping fans leaves.
IMO, pruning isn't needed until the stretch in flowering is over
I saw a poic on here somewhere, that showed the fan leaves taped with scotch tape. Tape the first and last fingers of the leaf together...
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Originally Posted by GreenDestiny
i think GreenD has it right, tie the leaves back or don't trim the whole leaf, cut it in half
it's jangel that uses twisty ties with loose nut's and bolt's as weights to LST, so, a twisty with a couple of nuts hung on the offending leaf will pull it out of your way
here's a pic from her log on GP, hope this helps
cool thanks for the info everyone, the 3 ladys are in day 2 of flowering. I will have to get some pics once i finish setting up the carbon scrubber, new exhaust fan, and replace the capacitor in my 250w ballast (only have a 150 hps in there now and 2 cfls) can't wait to see the results with 400w in a week or so. They are still very healthy looking and pretty even canopy. I'm sold on LST it has worked great so far