Quote Originally Posted by ForgetClassC
Quick question......why did you trim the leaves under the canopy, isn't the point of trimming to give the under leaves light, should have trimmed the bigger leaves that are blocking the other leaves from the light.

-C
The idea was that the little leaves would never really get much light and are known for making little "popcorn" nugs anyway. My plant would be better off without a small, shady population of leaves and buds that consume resources in order to fruitlessly grow slightly larger. Killed in the veg stage, no resources gathered from the healthy sun leaves up top will be redistributed to make popcorn nugs on the bottom, only big nugs around the top where its mighty sunny.

If I killed the big sun leaves like you're suggesting I would have a very ugly plant with massively reduced photosynthesis capability. I killed some leaves but they were probably consuming more resources than they were contributing, unlike the sun leaves up top.