Giant fan leaves

Taking a poll of sorts or if someone knows please reply.
When is the ideal time to remove those giant fan leaves, I mean those big giant suckers. I remove 1 around week 2 if the plant is healthy and growing rapidly of course. But I never remove more than one at a time because I'm scared of shocking the plant, So if anyone knows the best time to remove them, please speak up. I know they consume a ton of energy but also help the plant.

RonnieB2 said:

Taking a poll of sorts or if someone knows please reply.
When is the ideal time to remove those giant fan leaves, I mean those big giant suckers. I remove 1 around week 2 if the plant is healthy and growing rapidly of course. But I never remove more than one at a time because I'm scared of shocking the plant, So if anyone knows the best time to remove them, please speak up. I know they consume a ton of energy but also help the plant.

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Why are you removing leaves at week 2?

I only removed one. It's tied down 90 degrees and it was completely covering the stem where the cola branches are starting. Here's most of the grow

RonnieB2 said:

I only removed one. It's tied down 90 degrees and it was completely covering the stem where the cola branches are starting. Here's most of the grow

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In veg leave the leaves until you are ready to lollypop ahead of the flip to flower. That's what I'd do.

Obviously the big early flowering plants arent 2 weeks. The rest are a hair over 2 weeks

Really it's each to there own some people strip the hell out plants some don't

I wouldn't remove leaves at that stage.

Lizard0420 said:

Really it's each to there own some people strip the hell out plants some don't

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That's what I was thinking. I eventually remove them all. But if it's causing problems i cut it. I try to leaf tuck as much as I can but a proper defoliation can send a lot more energy to buds and opens up the canopy

Removing leaves doesn't send energy to the buds, it reduces photosynthesis.

RonnieB2 said:

That's what I was thinking. I eventually remove them all. But if it's causing problems i cut it. I try to leaf tuck as much as I can but a proper defoliation can send a lot more energy to buds and opens up the canopy

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But there's no buds at 2 weeks?

At this stage there is no reason to defoliate, you'd just be taking away energy that fuels plant growth and bud formation. Right now it looks like all your leaves are getting light, which is a good thing

obijohn said:

At this stage there is no reason to defoliate, you'd just be taking away energy that fuels plant growth and bud formation. Right now it looks like all your leaves are getting light, which is a good thing

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THank you very much..

Nope_49595933949 said:

But there's no buds at 2 weeks?

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Of course not. I said the plants that are flowering are obviously older lol

RonnieB2 said:

Of course not. I said the plants that are flowering are obviously older lol

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Yea, but I thought we were talking about removing leaves from 2 week old plants. And you mentioned removing them to "send" energy to the buds.

obijohn said:

At this stage there is no reason to defoliate, you'd just be taking away energy that fuels plant growth and bud formation. Right now it looks like all your leaves are getting light, which is a good thing

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Im also running 4 airdomes with 15 liters of oxygen an hour being pumped to the roots. I laid in about 3 inches of hydro pebbles placed the airdome, them filled the pot with coco, I turned on the pump at week one and the differences are pretty obvious, I think I have enough plants for a control group. If you been thinking about auto pots and air domes . You can use the airdomes with coco and hydro pebbles. These plants with the domes are about 30% bigger than the others, they're tied down 90 degrees but are gobbling water and growing a bit faster. I hope it pays off with the weight at the end

Nope_49595933949 said:

In veg leave the leaves until you are ready to lollypop ahead of the flip to flower. That's what I'd do.

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I sort of do that too unless its a problem and totally covering a vital area...So it sounds like Im on track. Im a firm believer in lollypopping . It pays off big time and removing those tiny little popcorn buds when they show up and skinny limbs with 1 node and anything below the light line I also wont grow without enzymes, microbes and aminos

RonnieB2 said:

I sort of do that too unless its a problem and totally covering a vital area...So it sounds like Im on track. Im a firm believer in lollypopping . It pays off big time and removing those tiny little popcorn buds when they show up and skinny limbs with 1 node and anything below the light line I also wont grow without enzymes, microbes and aminos

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I'm right there with you on lollypopping, I just don't think 2 weeks is a good time to start removing healthy leaves.

this is pretty simple. Don't remove satellite leaves. if needed tuck them out of the way of the bud site.

you will notice when removed the plant will grow another, all that is being done by removing them is lowering photosynthesis and causing the plant to shift energy to growing it back.

I take any leaves that are covering a node, other than that they will stay until i lollipop for flip to flower

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