First grow Week 3 Veg.

Got it topped and cut back some of the fan leaves. This is my first grow and i am trimming to the best of my ability. Any one have comments as to how she looks so far. I will post a few pics of all 9 here shortly. I think things are gooing quite well so far.

dont trim fan leaves.. why would you do that?

Why are you cutting her into pieces!!!!!!! What did she ever do to you to deserve that.......................

cut off the rest of the leaves and we can end the thread here

you fucked your plant up and it's small. What lighting and soil are you using?

give him a break guys its his first grow, the plant is far from being fucked up. stop trimming and let her grow out. i would suggest to lst (ligth stress training) but before lst i would let her grow out more that way she gets back to normal. what you are doing now is adding lots of stress by trimming fans leaves and not only that but the fan leaves is where they get their energy from sun or light whichever is your case. let her be......

the only time that i trim fan leaves to half is when i get cuttlings from mother. other then that i leave fan leaves alone.

im using fox farm ocean forest 150w hps and 4 150 equiv cfl 5000k. i am growing in a area that it 2'd 3'w and 8' tall i am trinning them to grow up i cut all of the fan leaves because there was so much new growth and wanted it to grow strait up. please give me advice i thought it was ok removing those leaves seeing as hows there are 15 sets tring to grow strait up. its 6 inches high right this second. i cut the leaves last night and it seems that the new growth has responded very well. but i guess i am mastaken

There's nothing to lst, that thing gets plenty of light..

bigrake said:

There's nothing to lst, that thing gets plenty of light..

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thats why i stated to let her grow out and then lst. but for now let her be until she gets good branches

It's going to grow but you don't cut like that. Cut the top leaf of new growth on each set of the new growth just one leaf that will make it branch out to make it split cut just the top off (new growth ) and it will form a v.

Thanks for all advice and thats why i am confiding in people here. thanks for all advice and support.

what the actual fuck is wrong with people these days? why do people cut the fan leaves? and who the fuck tells them to do this? who ever told this guy to cut off his fan leaves must be on a mental ward in the hospital. you will just kill your plant if you continue to do this. I am being harsh for a reason. take note of this post!! non the less, happy growing.. GW

I told my dumbass buddy, who just started growing, this same shit, and I still don't get it... Apparently there's dipshits that these folks work with who try to act like they know shit from shineola, on the merit that they have grown a half-assed tomato plant and produced tomatos before, who tell these people to cut their fan leaves... I could bitch slap folks who give mal-advice like that... I have straightened my buddy out now, and he now knows the difference in selective pruning of over 50% yellowed fans, and the leaving the fuck alone of the big, healthy green ones... I had to break the whole photosynthesis thing down for him, and explain how the leaves act as the "solar panels" of sorts for the plant to convert light energy into plant energy in order to fucking grow, and that at best, what he will do is slow growth, and probably even stunt it, and at worst he'd end up with a hermie, or yet even worse, a dead ass plant... What a shame... Lol...

Hey DJ,

Yeah, folks around here are very attached to fan leaves...and for good reason. They're what make the plant grow big and strong. The only time it might, might, MIGHT, be acceptable is well into flowering if fan leaves are truly blocking a large bud from receiving light. But even then most experienced growers will tell you to tuck the leaves aside, not cut them.

So leave your girl be, and she'll recover. Before you know it, she'll have lots of nice full fan leaves on her. I burned a bunch of leaves on my grow with a too-close light, and the plant recovered fine. Turned out to be a boy, but at least his death had nothing to do with the leaves!

Good luck!
KG