if you want light to the lower part of the plant and the fan leaves are blocking the light, don't trim them either.
Take a piece of scotch tape (the clear stuff) and bring the the first "finger" and the fifth "finger" of the fan leaf together and tape them together. The leaf will still "work" that way.
blink_inc Reviewed by blink_inc 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