Help with FAN LEAVES (+ Rep) HELP

I just flowered my plants at about 2 months in, they are now week one of flowering and i trainded my plants. Some of the fan leaves are really covering some new growth spots, or future bud sites... And they make it difficult to train by getting in the way. Would it be ok if i just trimmed a few fan leaves off this far into the game or is it to early... Help please

you really cant tie them out of the way? if not and they are covering your flowering sites you should trim them, it is never that great to trim fan leaves but it they are blcking your buds there really isnt much else you can do if you cant just tie em out of the way. just dont cut too many!

ive never flowered a plant but i have a friend who did and he cut some fan leaves as needed and it didnt hurt the plant at all if anything it helped but some of the guys on here will say that those leaves bring alot of energy to the plant which they do but i still think you can get away with trimmin some of them.....hope this helps

thanks guys, i realized i shouldnt cut them off, i will just trim the crutial blockers... and i honestly wasnt thinking of tieing them down or in a dif dirrection... thanks

should this only be done in flower or will it also help to do this during veg?? (tieng or moving but not cutting)

mysticcobe said:

should this only be done in flower or will it also help to do this during veg?? (tieng or moving but not cutting)

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If you're referring to LST'ing your plant (low stress training), you should do it during the vegetative stage. The branches/stems are thinner and more flexible during the earlier stages of the veg stage, and more amenable to being bent.

so i should bend the fan leaves away from the future bud sites?? sry ive never heard of this low stress training thing before therefore ive never even looked up any info on it so i pretty much know nothing about this i dont even know what i would tie the fan leaves to...guess i got some research homework tonight!!! lmao

when you trim the fan leaves off of your plant it promotes branch growth the plant grows branches faster to make up for the lost fan leaf.

jgrows4u said:

when you trim the fan leaves off of your plant it promotes branch growth the plant grows branches faster to make up for the lost fan leaf.

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so ur saying it helps to trim fan leaves during veg then??

The fan leaves feed the plant throughout flowering so do not cut them off but. You can tie them back for more light to penetrate the budsites though.

johnny961 said:

The fan leaves feed the plant throughout flowering so do not cut them off but. You can tie them back for more light to penetrate the budsites though.

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ok cool im gna try this then.....i plan on topping my girl tmw and i will move some fan leaves also...

You will be alright. Just pinch the middle out of the plant.

duude.. how long have you been lsting? if you do it right. those "bud sites" aka nodes will create its own branch and will grow past any fan leaves. if anything just tuck the fan leaves under the nodes dont cut them off.

BTW, there's a ton of info on this website about LST'ing, et al. Trust me, I know it's hard to find. Here's some links with good info on LST:

https://www.rollitup.org/view.php?pg=faq&cmd=category&id=110

cool thanks everybody and yea i dont plan on cutting any fan leaves jst kinda moving them out the way is all im goin for.....

DontDoDrugs said:

duude.. how long have you been lsting? if you do it right. those "bud sites" aka nodes will create its own branch and will grow past any fan leaves. if anything just tuck the fan leaves under the nodes dont cut them off.

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I just staARTED TRAIN ING HER WITRHIN THE WEEK....they almost too big for my box and i havent even sex'd them \ week 1 flower

ALL of this advice & no rep to anyone?