I heard that if you trim the leaves down while your plant is budding it will put more growth into the bud, is this true?

dont trim em , could cause a stunt in growth and mold issues etc , if you trim slowly and cut at the stems this could be good if you dont have alot of light and want more to reach lower buds but it needs to be done slowly and you need to know wut ur doing

It would seem intuitive to leave the large fan leaves on. Don't large buds improve the probability of success for a particular plant in the wild? If so, then isn't it possible that evolution has produced the large fan leaves you see now, and done so to encourage large bud growth? Just thinking out loud—

Always had the same thoughts and intuitions but you know how human engineering can make huge differences in plants and they way they grow. I'm in the 4th week of 12/12 and would really like to know if those big bastards are just in the way.

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Mak'n the smoke -Silky-

same here, ill more than likely leave them all but dont exactly have the best of lights going on.

ALSO badly misjudged the size of my sativas, they are at the top of my tent now, think im gonna have to tie them down, could i properly fuck this up if its not spot on?

i seen a plant that the guy had the idea of taking off the fan leaves stunted the plant, did not grow for three weeks when my leaves start to turn yellow i take them off not before everything has a purpose on the plant let it do its thing

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I am so full of crap my eyes are brown PEACE AND POT

remove leaves remove vigor and stunt growth if you want to trim leaves do it 1 week b4 switching to 12\12 never during flower... tuck them away if possible don't cut em... when they turn yello gently pull on em if they fall off than good if not leave it... your cutting off a food supply with every leaf cut off
tieing down a plant is the best thing you could do for it

the fan leaves yellow toard the end of flower... why??? consumption... the plant is useing them so when they are not there where is it getting its life from.... the leaves are important espetially during flush

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if ur gon to remove the leaves do it slowly. i did it on one of my crops and didnt reall notice anything good or bad, but im not making a habbit of it. it will allow more light to reach the lower buds. i would only do it in flowering late.

Looks like some good feedback. Won't be cutting the leaves.

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Mak'n the smoke -Silky-

Hmmm,how can trimming sun leaves cause mold issues

I never trim sun leaves because they are what does the most work on the plant but the mold deal has me scratching my head a bit.

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