Cutting fan leaves...... Ok?

guitarabuser said:

I've been trimming fan leaves for a long time and have never seen it be a problem. I also snap the spent buds off of my roses, trim my oak trees back with a pruning saw, and (gasp!) I occasionally take a pair of shears to my hedges. It's called cultivation.

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i can dig it. but you got people who get stuck in there ways thinking they know it all.

again diffrent strokes for diffrent folks

SlikWiLL13 said:

i get along with chitownsmoking but i have to agree with goldenganj on this one. chitown is spot on about cutting off thos unergrowth tips though, i always do this unless i want to make hash or oil with the fluff buds.

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Yeah I do the same, trim off spindly ones and clean up all the weak branches, but Smoking Baby is all over the board with bad advice. First post he wrote on is it ok to cut off leaves was "yeah thats fine even though people on here will give you shit about it ".
Anyways here is what my plants look like 1-2 weeks before flowering and after triming them up for flower room. ( I do not condone taking off fan leafs for more light).
Here is the Skunk before cleaning her up.

And here she is after (left Side)
Notice the thick bushing. Now thats a good veg.

guitarabuser said:

I've been trimming fan leaves for a long time and have never seen it be a problem. I also snap the spent buds off of my roses, trim my oak trees back with a pruning saw, and (gasp!) I occasionally take a pair of shears to my hedges. It's called cultivation.

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Try leaving the "cultivation" in the yard and not in the grow room and see your yeild double.

Would you have preferred I said "horticulture"? I started to, but then I thought, nahh, it's too broad a term. I could have said pruning, but thats too narrow. Really, I agree that I misused the word. In regard to growing it really just means "to turn the soil".

guitarabuser said:

Would you have preferred I said "horticulture"? I started to, but then I thought, nahh, it's too broad a term. I could have said pruning, but thats too narrow. Really, I agree that I misused the word. In regard to growing it really just means "to turn the soil".

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Many moons ago in Tulare County, Cali. I had my house ram sacked by the police, well they found 3 plants and I went to jail, the charge was cultivation, the maxium sentence I was looking at was 5 years.
I just don't care for the word Cultivation.

solution - the lower branches that won't get that much light become your next batch... clooooneeeee

double210 said:

solution - the lower branches that won't get that much light become your next batch... clooooneeeee

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Good advice, just wait 2 weeks before going 12/12 that way they are closer to mature or way mature. I prefer way Mature.

this cat is on some shit man were is all the bad advice ive given?