Should you trim off fan leaves? im in week six of flowering

u could do it just don't go overboard just the ones blocking light, but even then it could be to late, by week 6 they're pretty much developed unless you have a long flowering plant

I personally think pulling a few fan leaves off a plant won't hurt it or cause enough stress to hermi...If its going to hermi its going to hermi based on its genetics, but I don't feel a little stress from clipping a few leaves is going to hurt anything...now if you stress the shit out of it by bending all the branches around, cutting off large chunks of the plant...leave fan blowing on it 24/7 straight on it...then yeah that'll probably bring out hermi conditions...

I am also a person who trims off lower buds that are not getting any light even while in flowering...no need in keeping them around when they wont produce shit to begin with

NO WAY DUDE! ok a few here and there that are unhealthy or ginormous are ok to take off. But you realize the plant uses photosynthesis to create the energy it needs to build nice strong buds. That energy is being drawn from your solar panels (leaves) to power your factory (nugs). Your nugs don't need sunlight your leaves do. the nugs are just the fruit. WHenever you grow strawberries or tomatoes, pumpkins, melons, or any other fruit or veggie you don't trim back leaves so the fruit gets sunlight because it's not needed.
The more leaves the better.

side note: if you need ventilation through the plant it can help to clip 1 or two. But in nature fruit normally grows under the leaves so they are protected from direct sunlight and scorching the fruit. I notice this every year in my veggie garden with my squash, pumpkins, peas, tomatoes etc... Not saying in an indoor setting you need to worry about this much but thought I would let ya know.

Originally Posted by SirLancelot

side note: if you need ventilation through the plant it can help to clip 1 or two. But in nature fruit normally grows under the leaves so they are protected from direct sunlight and scorching the fruit. I notice this every year in my veggie garden with my squash, pumpkins, peas, tomatoes etc... Not saying in an indoor setting you need to worry about this much but thought I would let ya know.

Flowers != Fruit

Weed makes flowers not fruits...a big difference

Also there are usually shittons of "sugar leaves" providing the photosynthesis power for the flowers themselves

but wouldn't your plant be getting more sunlight on big fan leaves as opposed to small sugar leaves, I don't think they add up to the surface space as fan leaves.
Regardless the point is you get more energy with the more leaves you have.

It might be a flower I don't know... when I look up the definition of a flower it doesn't seem to match in my eyes though...

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms). The biological function of a flower is to effect reproduction, usually by providing a mechanism for the union of sperm with eggs. Flowers may facilitate outcrossing (fusion of sperm and eggs from different individuals in a population) or allow selfing (fusion of sperm and egg from the same flower). Some flowers produce diaspores without fertilization (parthenocarpy). Flowers contain sporangia and are the site where gametophytes develop. Flowers give rise to fruit and seeds.


I call it a fruit because of the Definition of Fruit in my Biology book.
In broad terms, a fruit is a structure of a plant that contains its seeds, Fungus that produces spores is also called a fruiting body." but as it explains the term has different meanings dependent on the context. I guess I was out of context... Happy growings
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Ah the age old growers debate. To cut, or not to cut fan leaves. All very good info SirLancelot, but I think this goes both ways. In my opinion the only way to definately say is to have done it both ways with a particular strain. I believe it is strain, and environmentally dependent. I have a strain that I take lots of leaves throughout the whole life of the plant, while I have another strain that I don't touch. Having grown both strains both ways, I was able to see which did better in which sircumstance. It's not really that i get MORE bud, but I get BETTER bud when I trim. Just what years of practice have shown me. Gotta find out for yourself.

Originally Posted by francy420

Ah the age old growers debate. To cut, or not to cut fan leaves. All very good info SirLancelot, but I think this goes both ways. In my opinion the only way to definately say is to have done it both ways with a particular strain. I believe it is strain, and environmentally dependent. I have a strain that I take lots of leaves throughout the whole life of the plant, while I have another strain that I don't touch. Having grown both strains both ways, I was able to see which did better in which sircumstance. It's not really that i get MORE bud, but I get BETTER bud when I trim. Just what years of practice have shown me. Gotta find out for yourself.

I completely agree...there is a balance of things and its all strain and pheno dependent...some plants respond better to trimming than others...its a simple fact of nature...it's why people continue to experiment with their plants to get the largest yield of flowers and the most amount of cannabinoids