Quote Originally Posted by stra8outtaWeed
i concurr...trimming fans only hurts your yield and lessens the quality of the bud as fans are the sugar factories for your flowers and the main life support for your plant photosynthesizing light into growing plant tissue....only trim if the leaf as at the end of its life cycle :thumbsup:
This is probably the common belief among most indoor growers including myself... until recently. I'm not interested in getting into this debate here as I have never done it myself, but a thread at another site has many members who do trim fan leaves, some more than others and at different times. They claim that there are several advantages to doing this. For new growers however, I would never recommend it.

If anyone is interested just google "Defoliation: Hi-Yield Technique" and make your own judgments.