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01-14-2010, 03:00 PM #3Senior Member
Cutting off damaged leaves?
The G-13-X-Haze clone we bought a few days ago had wrinkled leaves with dried tips. We potted them up on Sunday.
Yesterday two of those leaves were completely dry and crispy so I clipped off the leaf itself. However I left the leaf stem which was still green to help pull more water up from the roots while it recovers. The clone still has three leaves on top but all of them are nearly as ugly as the two I removed. Luckily we already have a new leaf and another forming. By tomorrow she'll have two fresh leaves and the dying ones can/could be removed.
What I read (god only knows how long ago). Once the leaf is no longer Photosynthesising it becomes a "leach" on the remaining plant. It continues to pull water as well as some nutes, but provides nothing in return. This CAN be useful to a point. If the plant has barely any leaves this can assist in keeping water flowing to the top of the plant while it grows new Photosynthesising leaves. BUT if the plant already has other healthy leaves but not a lot of them, the leaf could be mildly harming recovery speed. Because the plant is feeding that dead leaf instead of building a new functioning one. Once the plant is healthy and has MANY leaves then I agree with Rusty Trichome. Leaf it be!:thumbsup:[align=center]A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.[/align]
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