cutting fan leaf for light penetration

Hello. I just Read that is was ok to vit fan Leaf as Long that fan laef has a bud grow over it. I what to do this for light riching the lower grow.anyone got any experience in this?

Hey @Kisskorv -- could you bend the leaf out of the way instead?

Thanks for replay.
Yes I havet tryed that but THE fans that blows over the canopy Keep it to get right back, when I get back to the to the grow room an hour late.

It will be fine. Cut it off if you want.

I remove all the sites and leaves from the legs of the plants leaving only tops and canopies that get light and product buds. Seems to work pretty well.

Hello Skuxx. Tanks for yor Replay. Ok. I have seen alot of YouTube videos where thay do that. As Long as it has built a bud stem is what everbody is saying.
Regards Kisskorv

I only remove fans on the bottom 6-12 inches and everything else on my big plants to make it easier to water
also you may want to cut some stuff off if you think it will impede airflow, but IMO you should focus on timing rather than cutting things off it just is counter productive IMO

You can cut a bunch off, just dont cut them all off. Remove any in that impede air flow like Nizza said.
Leaves are how your plant takes in the light so you need them. I cut the shit out of mine a few times through out the grow. Just to keep the circulation up.

Hello Malicifice. Tanks for the tip. Thats was what they said on the YouTube videos also
Happy growing

What I do is cut off fan leaves as they turn yellow. I figure a dying leaf is not helping the plant anyway. That removes enough light blockage for my purposes. I have tried doing all kinds of suggested thing to plants. The best results I get come from just letting the plant grow as close to the way it would in nature as possible. So, I don't mess with green leaves.

Hello Bartow.
Ok. I have alrrady cut them off, but not so many. I know the plant nedds it for temperaturen control and so on. This Will be a litle of an experiment

Search for "defoliation" there are tons of threads in the marijuana growing sections. It's been debated heavily.

Supercrop

Hello. This is how i looked after i lo uppoked after I vit of some fan leaf. I forgot to take a picture before. There in V 3 flowering

very Heavy defoliation on established plant and bend down.


12 days later


see page 2, of https://www.rollitup.org/t/torr-power-saving-veg-method.999199/

Leaf defoliate if you have a good root structure and healthy vigorous plant. in veg and in flower, multiple times, all fan leaves with a leaf stem

skip to end to see final defoliation. That’s how black dog growers defoil right when they flip to harvest. I haven’t tried it that aggressively though myself.

If it isn't to improve air-flow and it's below a bud site I would normally leave it alone. Anything under scrog screen is cut.