Should you trim off fan leaves? im in week six of flowering

guitarzan

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Photo on 2014-08-30 at 19.09.jpg I have 3 females budding right now outside. The nicest one is the same one as in my profile pic (turn it 90 degrees clockwise), except she's gone through puberty already with about 500 "Bart Simpsons" all over the place. Planted 5 seeds, 3 came up, and 3 females...lucked out. Two are 5 feet tall with trunks as big as Twonnies. I experimented with all 3...soil type, soil with budding formula bat-shit & container size. We argue about this fact steady, and I'm right...if you use a fairly large container to transplant or plant your plant, and you use NEW 4-in1 soil mixture mixed with appropriate amount of bat guano to the soil mix, your plant will be ten times happier for sure. Your soil can become depleted of any nutrients real quick...as little as one season. It's a great idea to just through some manure in your soil in the fall...till it in with your old soil and it'll be perfect for spring planting. One of my dad's little gardens ran into a shitty soil situation this summer...bad count on the tomatoes. Adding ferts to crappy soil will work, same thing as hydro, except if you're growing outside, may as well get prepared for the best dope you can grow for your own self...just sayin'. It's not necessary to put them in fairly large containers I've found, but they certainly grow fast with no negative variables associated with the soil chemical make-up and/or getting root-bound...like N deficiency, or sulphur deficiency, or WTF deficiency. Every little bit makes a difference in your garden, ask any botanists. This is just from at least the last 10 summers in northern Ontario outside plants. My buddy just got burned AGAIN for most of his plants...FUCK THAT, went and bought a UNIDEN UNR444 infrared wireless security for $245 total. Better that than $5000+ in pot I'd have to buy for the next few years for myself. Now, if I don't get busted or burnt even still, or if they don't get mouldy...or if I don't die, they should nice. Here's 2 pictures of the one I physically & psychologically tortured...not too bad. She's near 4' tall, deformed and a bit confused for the hard life she's had so far. i'm so glad that little experiment never costed me a bisexual thing with seeds...rape my other beauties 20 feet away.There is all this controversy concerning pulling fan leaves, pulling ALL leaves, when the plant goes into full bud production. I just yanked 30 big fan leaves off of each...it's skimpy buds yet, lots of what I call "Barts", but not filled in and all white as snow. I think I'll leave the rest on until they discolour at least. It's August 30th...hopefully another 4 weeks or sooner. No blue 10-52-10 anymore...I made a compost tea, let it sit in a square pail container outside to evaporate the fluorine/chlorine for a week stirring it all the time. They say cut that "black gold" they call it 5 parts water to one ratio...I just winged it about a quarter. Apparently the old compost from the bottom of your compost thing has all the micro-nutrients needed for anything that grows in the ground...and no pure chemicals to wash out as much. Joints will burn better too they say. We'll see...I hope the hell. I'd like any replies, good, bad and ugly. Thanks for reading my book.

*PLEASE NOTE*: In case you're interested, I'll post pics of the other classier ladies.
 

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Ok ,Ive tried it everyway.Do not pull the damn leaves off leave them alone .They will only slow down the plant , plus the plant need the leaves has sugars and all kinds of crap the plant needs in short .Trust me , or dont and try it soon or later you will agree .Like the guys said above tho , you could take 2-3 so the light could get to the but its better to tie them down if your really worried about it . I thought forever that it help , and well it does leave the plant alone guys . Nature been doing its thing long before we came around , the plants know what there doing . !!!
 

green217

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I only remove the dieing,rough large fan leaves during the last couple of weeks of flowering by then alot of the large fan leaves are looking a little worse for wear and removing them usually allows a lot of light to the small popcorn buds at he base of the plant. I am experimenting with double harvesting or cutting off off all the colas and other buds that have matured, I then leave the small stuff on the plant and move the plant up a few inches higher, to allow more light intensity at the lower portions of the plant, this seems to be the best method for getting the most size and weight out of your popcorn, at least for me.
 
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Damn ,I sounded like I was drunk . When I wrote that my bad , I didnt proof read and my batties were going dead , sorry so sloppy
 
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