Quote Originally Posted by Bachelorpads
Standard growing should not have fan leaves removed. .
I absolutely agree.

Quote Originally Posted by Bachelorpads
Latewood: My goal when I SCROG is to have almost no foilage under the screen at all when budding. If done correctly and the canopy is tall enough, almost no light will penetrate through the screen and all of those fan leaves will die anyway. .
So the prupose of removing fan leaves in SOG/SCROG is simply to have better air circulation and fewer places for pests to hid beneath the canopy.
Now THAT makes sense.
It has nothing to do with "removing leaves so more light hits the bud sites", or whatever .