Removed a lot of "leafage"

Live and learn. I'd be really interested in what grows back. Will it come back with a vengeance, and be thicker and bushier? There have been several posts about doing the same thing here lately. I guess the abuse was more than they could bear, and they went away. Nobody (to my knowledge) has posted what happened post dismemberment.

well here we are, 24 hours after my rampage with the scissors.

here was my plant (hindu kush) just a few days ago, thriving and enjoying life.


It's the plant on the left.


And here is what was left over from my temporary insanity.



i left quite a few on but there were so many small bud sites covered by lefs i thought it was a good idea.....



thanks for looking.

what will become of this once beautiful plant?

id say you took alittle to much in that one spot but taking a few
leaves aint going to do shit .

thats not as bad as i thought.... beating yourself up for nothing... i was expecting worse.... just baby her, she'll still treat you right....

tried to rep you to cheer you up a little.... but i gotta spread some luv...

gogrow said:

thats not as bad as i thought.... beating yourself up for nothing... i was expecting worse.... just baby her, she'll still treat you right....

tried to rep you to cheer you up a little.... but i gotta spread some luv...

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cheers man

i'll keep this thread posted on what happens to this plant.

thanks for your views, much appreciated. put my mind to rest.

^^ we all tend to freak out.... cause it feels like every lil thing might ruin what you have worked so hard for..

i think it's sexy. Do you have a plant about the same height and age? I'd be curoius to see how they compare in yield. I really don't think it's as bad as you think. The worse part is is that it's during flwoering, and right in the middle. But seriously, that might grow a little interesting.

i have 2 more plants (week or so younger, maybe a lil' more)

different strains, but one's taller and the other is shorter.

let's see what happens...

just pretend you are farther along in flowering and that bare area is the first of the fan leaves to start yellowing and falling off.....

whenever i grew outside the last couple days before I'd harvest id trim the fan leaves away. Buds always seemed to plump a little after.

the hate for triming fan leaves is so fucking broard on these forums. man my bagseed sativas lower fan leaves were looking unhealthy yet their was new healthy growth at the nodes, i trimmed the fan leaves off allowing the new growth to get more light and now its fucking powering sann. So any one who says never trim is fuckin trippin brah.

you don't want to trim during flowering. Thats all. The plant has to recover after you clip shit. Which means while it's not recovering, it's not growing buds. Thats the big deal: not growing buds. You veg, shape your plant, then put full forces into buds. I trimed the shit dick out of my current clone. Of course, my build for this is a lollipop, so i'm supposed to trim the bottom leaves anyways and encourage massive undergrowth, which, so far, i love what it is doing. I just hope it still yields...

But still. You just don't want to trim off things the plant is actively using. Dead leaves, trim those suckers. It's recommended. The plant knows how to grow. When leaves stop being used, it kills them. When it send toxins to leaves, those areas of the leaf arn't being used anymore, and if enough damamge is there, might as well clip the whole leaf. It wastes energy into something that's not producing it's fair share.

Don't trim during flowering is the biggest thing to not do...and don't be freakin stupid. Always avoid being stupid.

when in flowering..... if it doesnt fall off with the slightest touch; probably safer to leave it where it is... and if its not yellow, its not comin off..

ok, little update. she's still doing fine

so far so good.

another question. at the bottom of one of my plants i had very yellow, dry, brittle leaves. i gave the ma slight tug, if they didn't come off with ease i left them.

is that ok to do?

burlingo said:

ok, little update. she's still doing fine

so far so good.

another question. at the bottom of one of my plants i had very yellow, dry, brittle leaves. i gave the ma slight tug, if they didn't come off with ease i left them.

is that ok to do?

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that is the only way i take off leaves... in nature, the wind will take those off.....

ok, thanks.

trying my best not to do anything else unnatural to them. they seem to be doing well.

getting frosty in places now

is it common for some plants, even the same strain, to grow quicker than others of the same strain under same conditions?

Yeah I did the same thing with one of my plants. My "friend" told me that if I remove the fan leaves the buds would get more nutrients. It sounded good in my head, and when I was done it looked like Charlie Browns Christmas tree. I then checked this site and saw that I fecked up. Do not listen to friends, listen to people who know what the feck they are talking about. I still haven't harvested her yet, BUT A BIG LESSON WAS LEARNED>

burlingo said:

ok, thanks.

trying my best not to do anything else unnatural to them. they seem to be doing well.

getting frosty in places now

is it common for some plants, even the same strain, to grow quicker than others of the same strain under same conditions?

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different phenotypes of the same strain... so yeah, fairly common

cheers man,

what would i do without you guys?!

burlingo said:

cheers man,

what would i do without you guys?!

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nothin major i would assume... just worry too much...