stripping your plant?

this is something me and a friend have been arguing about for a while wanted to see what everybodies take is.
2 weeks into flower strip/cut off all the big fan leaves i ask him how much and he says until you think you have gone to far.
wait a week then restrip/cut off all the leaves again. and again until you think you have gone to far.
he swears by it and says it forces flower i think it would stress the plant for no reason.
his argument is that they do this to roses and other flowers when it is flower time

what do you think will this in anyway help the plant?

Don't do this. Your plants need those big leaves

Your friend is an idiot.

i think hes refering to lollipopping and its not stupid. i did it here ....

i stripped it free of all budsites and leaves.

lmao its not a rose plant

no thats not what he does he cuts off all the fan leaves leaving just the new growth at the node. he wont listen to me saying some hippie told him about it but this would cause stress correct?

ive seen ppls plants on pretty realiable source sites have clipped fan leaves but i never figure out why... maybe for space reasons? so they dont touch too much and let light thru idk

rzza said:

i think hes refering to lollipopping and its not stupid. i did it here ....

i stripped it free of all budsites and leaves.

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He said all the big fan leaves....I don't think lolli popping involves stripping all the big fan leaves : O


Tell your friend that photosynthesis starts at the leaves.....so they need them to produce those buds,not only is he stressing his plants he is affecting his yield...........it's ok to trim lower shoots and leaves that don't receive any light.......but not all the big fan leaves that are doing their job.....

rzza said:

i think hes refering to lollipopping and its not stupid. i did it here ....

i stripped it free of all budsites and leaves.

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I understand the logic behind lillipopping, but OP made it sound like he just removed a bunch of fan leaves which is very different.

he is removing a LOT of leaves he does it until he thinks he has gone to far then stops

ask him if hes plucking the leaves in a staircase formation? its a certain technique, plucking one leaf from each node on opposing sides ...im at least close on that one LOL

I suppose my question is why would you want to do any "pruning" to the point that you think you went "too far" with it? Chances are if you think you went too far, you probably did. Fact is, even if leaves overlap each other, they will naturally orient themselves to the light so they can recieve as much light as possible. So it doesnt make sense to remove them. Now if the leaf is damaged or turning yellow or something, by all means remove it. In that case it is best to do that. Otherwise leave them leaves alone!