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Im curious, because i have heard soo many different opinions of my friends and family, when the best time to trim up your plants?? r u suposed to cut off all of the fan leaves before flower, or just when it starts. | ||
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09-04-2009, 01:25 PM
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| Its preference there is no right or wrong time to trim. Personally its a lot easier when the bud is fresh to trim it. and yes ...I would pick off all of the fan leaves before i chopped it down and trimmed the buds themselves. Set up some newspaper or plastic on the ground. So the trim has a clean place to collect. Its a real pain in the ass to dry it and then trim IMO. | ||
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| I did a side by side experiment with 2 clones from the same plant. One I cut all the fan leaves off & one I kept all the leaves on, tucking where I could. At first, the plant with no fans grew fatter buds, but in the last two weeks, the plant with leaves got fatter buds overall. The plants need those fan leaves for energy to build buds. Tuck, don't pluck!
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| Gently tuck the fan leaves. The buds will get plenty of light and the leaves (the major solar energy factories of the plants) can go about their business. Your buddy is wrong. Perhaps you can occasionally trim isolated leaves for various reasons (air flow) etc, and leaves on the bottom 1/3 or 1/4 of the plants...but otherwise I wouldn't touch the leaves except to caress 'em and tuck em. Remember...tuck don't pluck.
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 BUSTED!You don't cut off fan leaves because they are in the way They are the power houses of photosynthesis Cutting them off while flowering is counter-productive You can even loosely tie them with those twist ties Loosely enough that the don't sweat but back enough to infiltrate more light Only remove dead ones If we cut off some of YOUR body parts I bet you wouldn't function and produce well either ALL things in nature likes to be appreciated and admired for what they truly are  Last edited by Lacy; 09-05-2009 at 03:44 AM.. | |||
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