Should I cut off these fan leaves?

Hey I have these Bubba plants, they are 63 days in flower and I am wondering if I should remove the big leaves in order to let more light get to the middle of the plant during the last 7-10 days as I am flushing? Peace

Leave them and harvest the upper portion of the plant on schedule, and then leave the lower section another week or two in flower.

Mother nature put those leaves there for a reason. Short version, leaves produce buds, buds don't produce themselves, in a sense.

Any other opinions? I am leaning towards cutting them...

I start selectively trimming my fan leaves late in flower - only those that are really blocking decent bud sites though.
I run a perpetual harvest with a 10 day cycle, so I get lots of opportunity experiment. Nothing formal (yet anyway), but I see that opening up the canopy with selective trimming gives much fuller bud all the way down the stems. Sure fan leaves absorb light, but so do bud leaves.
I'd tend to agree with the mother nature argument if I were growing 12 footers outside on a hill. I don't - I grow inside and do all kinds of unnatural things to my plants, bending, potting, feeding etc...
I do what I see producing bigger and better buds.

trim em if you want

Trim one leave the other and see what works best.......it aint rocket science.

Did the marijuana plant trim itself when it got too bushy?
No....
So leave them.
If you want bigger buds get more light.
And like spandy said,
leaves produce buds,
not the buds itself.

You're 63 Days in. They are 80% dead already. Let the lower part have some light! The buds with thank you!

I'm not a hemp farmer or a seed producer. Little of what I do is very "natural"

Pullin' weeds said:

You're 63 Days in. They are 80% dead already. Let the lower part have some light! The buds with thank you!

I'm not a hemp farmer or a seed producer. Little of what I do is very "natural"

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This makes sense to me.... Peace

I would leave it be until day 65. cut the top buds then youll have plenty of light then cut the rest at day 70

I cut my fan leafs if they are blocking direct light from getting to the buds. Leafs help but to many can slow down the max amount of buds you can harvest at one time.
The one person said does the Marijuana plant trim it's self when it get's to bushy? Mother nature also doesn't grow under hps inches way and such, also when you grow in house you prevent a lot of nature's problems that kill the plants like bugs and shity soil!

biggun said:

Any other opinions? I am leaning towards cutting them...

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Uncle Ben said:

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That's some good shit!

Jloi said:

That's some good shit!

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only if teh search here was worth a shit you get the same 5 page of bs no matter what you search.

cut the lot off its not gonna lower your weight but increase if anythin the main fan leaves ar nt doin shit anyway now but living off the plant and trying to survive to the death believe me i trim all main fan leaves at week 3 of flower and let the bud leaf do the fan leaves job and it does it better than some would like you to believe. the thing is your not doin a natural grow and you dont have the sun as a light source so why stick to wot others believe as gospel

Uncle Ben said:

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yawn...

dont think this is a general question, more specific to his current grow including pics etc...

you knew what you were gona get when you read the title "should i cut the fan leaves off?" why click it if you have a problem?

OK, I'll bite, with a question.

biggun said:

Hey I have these Bubba plants, they are 63 days in flower and I am wondering if I should remove the big leaves in order to let more light get to the middle of the plant during the last 7-10 days as I am flushing? Peace

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What makes you think there will be any real world difference in production, health, whatever if you cut leaves off during the last 10 days?

Another question, what is the real world value, in chemical and botanical terms for "flushing". I assume you think an annual functions like a car radiator with a spigot?

UB

Getting direct light to the lower portions of the plant will make them mature more completely than if they are left in the shade. A leaf or two will not hurt the plant, but exposing the tips to direct light will make them ripen. Have Fun!

All I'll say is, it took me awhile. But I learned.
Quit growing leaves and start growing buds.
Now that sounds brash I know. But it's true.
Pruning is a knack. Learning when, where, how is a book full.
Nothing wrong with "removing leaves". But it can be done wrongly.

Canon said:

All I'll say is, it took me awhile. But I learned.
Quit growing leaves and start growing buds.

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Say what? You need to take a course in Botany 101.