Trim fan leaves

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Hi all, my first try at growing an it appears things are getting real, real fast. My plant is 3 weeks old about 10" high. I noticed at the top of the plant there are little white shoots. Could these be pistols? Also I have big fan leaves. Can I trim these off so light can get to the lower branches. The new branches are about 2" long. Also, the first round leaves from the seed and the first 2 leaves are still attached could I trim these off?
 
Aolelon

Aolelon

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If they are in the shade and you are about to flower it is okay to trim them. But unless you plan on going in to flower soon I wouldn't worry about it. Yes the pistils are probably just preflowers showing themselves.
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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i have had the occasional plant that just doesn't want to branch, and i'll cut a few sun leaves, but it always slows down general growth. i only do it on selected plants that are stubborn about branching
 
slinkysaurus

slinkysaurus

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As a mainliner and 1 plant for each light, I'm always hacking away at my plants. Some people would consider it plant-rape, until they saw how beautiful the chubby babies were! Haha

For everything you cut off your plant, branches, leaves, roots etc etc it has a reaction on another part of the plant. You can use this to your advantage when you get better at understanding the plants and how trimming which parts effects what. It just adds a lot more time.

You can't just go and hack things off to make it look pretty, you gotta have a plan. If that fan leaf is bugging you and blocking a bud site, tuck it under. When you get into flower it'll be above that fan most probably, or look into lateral low stress training !

For now, I would keep it simple as has been said.
 
Gentlemencorpse

Gentlemencorpse

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TheCatOutRanksYou said:
Even if the leaves are turning yellow or have holes don't trim them (during flowering in 12/12)?
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I trim damaged and dying leaves all the time. And sometimes I trim healthy fan leaves, but only when the tent gets too crowded. I've had bud rot problems in the past so I like to make sure there's plenty of air flow.

But basically your going to find two schools of thought on this one with thoroughly entrenched defenders on each side, and each side has some pretty good arguments. So don't expect a definitive answer haha.
 
TheCatOutRanksYou

TheCatOutRanksYou

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Appreciate the input, corp. I've gone with only trimming leaves that look like they are going to fall off in a few days regardless and she seems to like it.
 
R

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Hi all
I would like to thank all of those who replied. Ihave read all your posts and gained great insight but I kinda went my own way in this matter. Big fan leaves, gone along with the small one's. I also chopped 4 inches off the top of the plant. Feeding this baby took alot of reading, but I came up with an idea. After finding and then eating crawfish I took the shells an made something like a bisque then added nitrogen and gave the girl a big O'ld drink. Also I went to home depot and purchased 3- 6 foot runs of led tape lights then wired them up for blue and red. It turns out the red or the bisque did the trick. This was done 3 weeks ago"the bisque and red light" I had hacked up the plant a month before. Now I have small buds everywhere about 50 or so. Where I hacked off the top the next branches down have taken off like a Saturn V rocket, so I again took to my olfa knife and cut one off and bent the other 180 degrees and tied it to the main stem with coconut string. Ok, I can assume that there are some of you that are wondering WTF is he doing? WTF is he trying to achieve? WHY WHY WHY!!!!!!! Because I can. I am not depending on this plant for smoking, the store down the street takes care of that for me. I want to observe the reaction to adverse conditions and types of feeding. The last top stem I cut off with the olpha knife was about 5 inches long, I dipped it into rooting solution and wraped it in a coconut husk. Then filled an empty smuckers jam jar filled it with the bisque and set it in a dark place"no not my mind" for 5 days then in my window. It hasn't grown any, but it hasn't died either. There were 3 small buds on this stem when cut with white pistolsthey apear the same as before I cut it.
I was guessing that harvest time would be around August, of 2019 . The plan now is to slowly remove all stems starting from the bottom then alternate to top stems every 2 weeks. Ill dry and cure the small buds as I go. Oh by the way, I am not sure what caused this, the extra nitrogen the bisque or the butchering of the plant, but leaves and buds are just freeking covered in tricomes. In the end what I am hoping to achieve is a branchless plant to put in my living room as a house plant.
 
slinkysaurus

slinkysaurus

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Raddaddy.com said:
Hi all
I would like to thank all of those who replied. Ihave read all your posts and gained great insight but I kinda went my own way in this matter. Big fan leaves, gone along with the small one's. I also chopped 4 inches off the top of the plant. Feeding this baby took alot of reading, but I came up with an idea. After finding and then eating crawfish I took the shells an made something like a bisque then added nitrogen and gave the girl a big O'ld drink. Also I went to home depot and purchased 3- 6 foot runs of led tape lights then wired them up for blue and red. It turns out the red or the bisque did the trick. This was done 3 weeks ago"the bisque and red light" I had hacked up the plant a month before. Now I have small buds everywhere about 50 or so. Where I hacked off the top the next branches down have taken off like a Saturn V rocket, so I again took to my olfa knife and cut one off and bent the other 180 degrees and tied it to the main stem with coconut string. Ok, I can assume that there are some of you that are wondering WTF is he doing? WTF is he trying to achieve? WHY WHY WHY!!!!!!! Because I can. I am not depending on this plant for smoking, the store down the street takes care of that for me. I want to observe the reaction to adverse conditions and types of feeding. The last top stem I cut off with the olpha knife was about 5 inches long, I dipped it into rooting solution and wraped it in a coconut husk. Then filled an empty smuckers jam jar filled it with the bisque and set it in a dark place"no not my mind" for 5 days then in my window. It hasn't grown any, but it hasn't died either. There were 3 small buds on this stem when cut with white pistolsthey apear the same as before I cut it.
I was guessing that harvest time would be around August, of 2019 . The plan now is to slowly remove all stems starting from the bottom then alternate to top stems every 2 weeks. Ill dry and cure the small buds as I go. Oh by the way, I am not sure what caused this, the extra nitrogen the bisque or the butchering of the plant, but leaves and buds are just freeking covered in tricomes. In the end what I am hoping to achieve is a branchless plant to put in my living room as a house plant.
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JohnDee

JohnDee

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Rad...
Growing brings out certain urges in people. If they're lazy...they usually grow lazy. If they're control freaks...they'll train the shit out of them. So you're going to develop your own style.

One situation where I do trim leaves is after a couple of toppings, when the plant has several main stems...I tend to cut the leaves that grow inward. By keeping that area clear, I get much better light penetration to lower inside buds.
JD
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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i'm about the same, i do a light pruning at about week 3 of flower, not a defoliation. i take some of the big sun leaves that are blocking light to a large area, and some of the interior leaves that are just laying on top of each other or growing into stems. i feel this improves light penetration, and ventilation, without denying the plant their primary energy source.
 
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