I dont cut the fans, if you pinch them where the stem comes out from the stalk, and using your fore finger and thumb, pinch and at the same time rolling the stem between your fingers it breaks the outter hurd that supports the fan leaf, then it hangs limply outta of the way...but it still gets to do it job of holding and releasing the starches and sugars in the leaf. The best of both worlds!
PlantBoxer Reviewed by PlantBoxer on . Fan Leaf's to cut or not?? Workin' on first Grow Box project, plants are 20 days old under 6500K 100W CFL's, they are 4 inches tall and have some very large fan leaf's starting to shade lower inner nodes, wondering if I should remove these leaf's or just let nature run it's course. Did some searching and no real clear direction found. Rating: 5