Our Continuous Harvest...more bud every 10 days!

[canuck grower]

I'll quote the grow bible on this one:

Removing large fan leaves to allow more intense lights to reach small buds or to stress plants is crazy! Large leaves are necessary to keep plants healthy. Indoors and in greenhouses where the hours of darkness are controlled, cannabis flowers for six to ten weeks or longer. This is a very short time. Hacking off branch tips to initiate more budding sites diffuses floral hormones and retards growth. Remove only leaves that are 50% or more damaged by diseases, pests, and cultural practices.

I don't see why that wouldn't apply in the last days of flower as well. Maybe even more so since the plants won't be fed at that time.

So I can't say from trying it myself, but it does indeed sound crazy.

[dutch.lover]

yeah i totally agree (i have jorge's bible too)...the leaves are IMO super important in the last while b4 harvest, because those are what the plant feeds itself with.

I'm always tempted to cut off large fan leaves to get smaller buds more light, but I just tuck them under instead. It's more fun that way anyhow, manipulating it so it grows the best naturally- as opposed to plucking it bare.

[stinkyattic]

OMG I totally forgot that you guys were the gruesome twosome, lol.... nice first crop!
Perpetual cropping is a delight. I used to LOVE having a plant to chop every other day or so. It really relieves boredom of waiting for the harvest to all finish up at once!

[dutch.lover]

haha thanks Stinky! I do like the continuous harvesting, it's nice having different weed to smoke every week or so. Having all the plants in different stages of growth does have it's cons tho...like all the plants are different heights so some get better light then others, figuring out how many and what kind of nutes to feed to each individual plant, and finally as fun as manicuring is- I wish there was more to do at one time!!!

You can check out our old grow log to see more harvest pics if you want, from our first 5 plants.

[stinkyattic]

yeah, feeding can be a pain... i saw your old log.. big thumbs up.

[TheGreenFog]

I'll quote the grow bible on this one:

I don't see why that wouldn't apply in the last days of flower as well. Maybe even more so since the plants won't be fed at that time.

So I can't say from trying it myself, but it does indeed sound crazy.

Ok, I've heard (read) this a thousand times if I have once, so I'm sure it's correct. I would also agree that the plant probably needs the leaves most in the end to suck the nutes from, right, since you aren't feeding it...but...


I was listening to Zandor's podcast the other day, and he says something like, "meh, it shouldn't hurt them too bad."

So, I'm not trying to start anything. I love Zandor and TGR (his podcast), but I think he may be misleading with that comment. Maybe I'll send him an email tomorrow. I know the one I listened to is WAY old by now, so maybe he corrected himself. I know it's tempting to wanna chop them (the fan leaves) off so you can revel in the beauty that are the buds, but I wouldn't want a bunch of newbies to go running around chopping them off, just because they heard that "it probably won't hurt much" on a podcast. Know what I'm sayin'?


The Fog :rastasmoke:

[canuck grower]

I just sort of made my own test to see if I take the leaf off or not. I tug on a really yellow leaf (usually crisping up) it and if it comes right off then it's ready to come off. If it resists then I leave it on.

[harris7]

one idea i had WAs:
since removing the fan leafs gives light to the buds (IMO not a big deal)
but also stresses the plant and causes a self defense reaction

the plant thinks it is being eaten, so what does it do. Swell up with resin to scare off the bugs

so an idea would be to allow your plant to finish normally, then b4 you give the plant 24-36 hours darkness cut off all the fan leafs.

Thoughts?

[Perp]

Concerning the removal of fan leaves; here is an experiment to try. On one plant choose a node somewhere along the main stem and remove one of the fan leaves from one side. Leave the other intact. Notice when the plant is finished how much bigger the bud is with the leaf than the one without.

I did this once and was amazed at the difference in size. The bud with the intact fan leaf was over twice the size.

[canuck grower]

one idea i had WAs:
since removing the fan leafs gives light to the buds (IMO not a big deal)
but also stresses the plant and causes a self defense reaction

the plant thinks it is being eaten, so what does it do. Swell up with resin to scare off the bugs

so an idea would be to allow your plant to finish normally, then b4 you give the plant 24-36 hours darkness cut off all the fan leafs.

Thoughts?

I have 2 girls flowering that are quite similar with 4 weeks to go, maybe 5. They're just little popsicle-like plants for a 4/20 session so I'm willing to try that out and see if there's a notable difference to the eye and my microscope. It's not very scientific but it's about the best I can do.

They are clones of the same plant so it should be a pretty fair comparison. Someone remind me to actually do it around the end of this month up to 2nd week of april.

It sounds plausible to me, even if Jorge thinks it's crazy. I don't see how it could hurt much since there's no light for them to take in anyway.

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here's a pic illustrating what perp said.


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