Help Please (bon bon)

[jimmy5150guitars]

My plants are 35 days old they are around 16 inches tall and from fan leaf to fan leaf is about 28" they really look ok but in the beginning i stunted them due to ph levels and now that seems to be fine. they are really bushy where there is a fan leaf on every node there is new growth not just a leaf but like a whole new main stem the leafs are starting out just like they did in the beginning 3fingers,5fingers,7fingers leafs and so on in fact i would say on the plants there is approx 50 branches which brings me to my question, should i prune the older fan leafs? for every fan leaf there is at least 3 branches comming out on each side of the stem with several leaves, . I am new to the wonderfull world of hydroponicsand i could really use some good advice i thought due to early problems the plant tried to replace the existing growth with new growth and it really went crazy would cutting the old large fan leafs hurt my plants? is this growth normal? o yeah i havent a clue what strain they are but there skunky. Ijust now cut the light back to 12/12
thank you guys

jimmy5150guitars Reviewed by jimmy5150guitars on 10-13-2004. Help Please (bon bon) My plants are 35 days old they are around 16 inches tall and from fan leaf to fan leaf is about 28" they really look ok but in the beginning i stunted them due to ph levels and now that seems to be fine. they are really bushy where there is a fan leaf on every node there is new growth not just a leaf but like a whole new main stem the leafs are starting out just like they did in the beginning 3fingers,5fingers,7fingers leafs and so on in fact i would say on the plants there is approx 50 Rating: 5

[notanovice]

pruning the older fan leaves should not stress your plants too much, but do not cut off all of them.
but in the last week of flowering it wont hurt the plant to cut off all the fan leaves, because your plant has stopped growing and is just ripening the buds

[Maulrat]

in the last week of flowering it wont hurt the plant to cut off all the fan leaves, because your plant has stopped growing and is just ripening the buds

I'm not even close to an expert in sativa propagation, but I had a question concerning this comment. We all know that plants make their food by using the nutrients uptaken by the roots and using light energy to chemically rearrange these elements into simple sugars (photosynthesis). Why remove the major portion of photosynthesis (chlorophyll in the leaves)? Just because a plant isn't vegetatively growing, it is still growing sexually by making more flowers and developing existing flowers. I feel that removing all the leaves from any plant, including sativa, will stress out your plant and stunt its developement. If I am wrong, please feel free to correct me. Hehe; like I said, I am not an expert, but do know a little bit about plant growth.

Maulrat

[bonbon]

I am not an expert, but do know a little bit about plant growth.

Maulrat

yes you do,and some....bonbon

[notanovice]

look at the post, i said the last week of flowering, in cannabis plants, the last week of flowering the fan leaves do nothing, the plant has stopped growing.
and you are correct when saying you are not an expert, maybe you now a little bit about HOUSE plants, when you get 20 years or more experience growing a specific plant, let me know.

[notanovice]

i apologize to you maulrat, bonbon, and jimmy.
i guess i lost my head.
dont take my advice
it is all incorrect
i have no experience growing
i will now just sit back and watch
as the cannabis.com world turns



PEACE
AND
GRASS

[bonbon]

novice,i think he was responding to the first post(trimming in the first 35 days)i dont think he was disputing what you wrote,they're usually dead or dying anyway by the final couple of weeks and start falling off on their own anyways....bonbon

[bonbon]

i agree with you about the final week....bonbon