Quote Originally Posted by stinkyattic
It's like cutting the blades off a wind turbine to 'make it spin faster'...
ROFL. yeah thats about it. some people claim they do it to get light to the buds but they dont have any mechanism that requires light so I truly dont understand why you would trim at all.

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SnSstealth Reviewed by SnSstealth on . Properly trimming fan leaves off? Sorry if they aren't specifically called fan leaves, maybe water leaves. Anyways, I was doing some trimming yesterday on my plant outdoors, and made me wonder if I was taking to much off or being paranoid and not taking off as much as I could. I'm referring to cutting off the excess leaves that grow here and there around the plant, that do nothing but take up water. Should I cut from the bottom up in a gradual pace, or could I cut most of them with no worries of doing any damage? I figure Rating: 5