After pruning all the flowering side branches off of 3 of my 8 plants to increase yield, I came home the next day to find most of the lower leaves rapidly turning yellow. I know this is natural and is caused by the usage of blah-blah in the leaves for the flowers, but a light went off in my head.

By trimming off those side branches I took off a lot of leaves along with it, so I was wondering what if you just trimmed the flowers off, and left the side branches full of leaves. It was obvious that the plant was demanding a lot of energy from the leaves, and by cutting them off, it caused more strain on the leaves that were left. Ans this way all the sugars from the leaves that would normally be cut off would go to the main cola, instead of the trashcan.

Anyone heard of or done this? I have 5 other unpruned plants and I am going to set up an experiment to test it, but would like some input first.

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