Think of your fan leaves as solar panels. They catch all the light and turn that into energy. The energy created by them goes into the buds. If your 4 weeks into flower, your plants are done stretching anyways. Now they are just going to start fattening up. So don't cut off those fans and don't trim them.

It would be like me cutting off your big toe and telling you to run faster.......not happening.

Tuck, tie if you want. But don't cut off my big toe.
Lit Up Reviewed by Lit Up on . Trimming 3-4 weeks into flowering? Hey everyone, I was going to post this in "Plant Problems" but everyone over there has spider-mites, and I didn't want to catch them. I've got two pre-98s and one lav just over three weeks into flowering. The sepals (to a lesser extent) and the adjacent fan leaves (to a greater extent) are blocking the light to the tops of each branch. Would it be ok to cut these back a little bit like I would for a newly cut clone? Can I do more, less? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Rating: 5