MIKEJONES11
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Looking for pro's and con's for removing all leaves 1 week or more or less before finishing of flowering? I have been told to do it so more light gets to the buds. Imput appreicated!!!
Removing all leaves 1 week before buds are done???
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Realclosetgreenz
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Yeah a this will help buds complete fuller. not only because of the light, but by making the cuts you redirect nutrients from the leaves directy to the buds on that branch. do as littl cutting as possilbe during flowering
HomeGrown420baby
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i'd do it right before u pick it or a day or two at the most before u pick it..i give em 24 hours of dark then cut all the leaves i can off and let it get 10-12 hours of uvb light then i pick and dry em
darkdestruction420
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the leaves are what MAKES the energy dont do it!!!! ur just gonna shock ur plant and fuck the buds up cuz the plant will want to make leaves since u just killed em all and it knows it needs leafs for energy production
Brick Top
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Sugars and other various things that plants/buds need to grow to their fullest potential are created in the large fan leaves. Not everything a plant needs is found in nutrients, nutrients when combined with light on the large fan leaves will produce various things that plants/buds need.
Large fan leaves are not only the plants solar collectors they are factories for the production of needed sugars and chemicals. They produce far more important things than the small amount of energy they consume.
There are no true pros for removing leaves, only cons. That is unless someone is using a growing system where they are only trying to get colas and nothing more. If that is all someone wants there will still be enough leaves for the colas to rely on but if someone is growing bushes there is no gain to removing leaves, only loss regardless of what some people believe.
Northernlights4
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Dont do it, your going to kill your yeild/quality of bud. At most trim a few large fan leafs, dont cut them off. Still I would recommend leaving her alone.
darkdestruction420
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if u want more light to the bud tie the fan leaves to each other/stem/wherever u feel like. they will start dying and dropping off during flowering anyway cuz the plant raids them for nutrients itself w/o u having to do anything
Brick Top
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That is a mistake.
The largest leaves on plants are the most efficient solar collectors and the largest factories for the creation of sugars and chemicals that plants/buds need.
Removing them means you are removing a vital part of the plant and a reduction in the plants capability to grow and to supply the buds with what they.
It is a fallacy that large fan leaves rob energy from plants and bud growth.
They absorb and produce what is vitally needed and supply plants/buds with far more energy than the small bit they consume.
HomeGrown420baby
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HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE LAST WEEK OR SO do it the last day or two and it doesnt matter
darkdestruction420
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the last 2 weeks are some of the most critical times in, no dont cut em off the plant cuz during your 24-48 hrs of darkness b4 harvest its gonna be taking nutrients and energy from the leaves so if u want to give your plant less energy for finishing budding sure u can cut leaves off. hell why not cut em all of? dont throw the plants stored energy away by cutting the leaves
MIKEJONES11
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Thanks for everyones imput!
Pogmahthoin
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I can't stress enough to just leave the plant alone!!! I thought it would be a good idea to prune up my plant, WRONG!! It went male! It just isn't worth it, you run a high risk of wrecking all the work you've done thus far. You'll be heart broke, thinking why couldn't I just leave it be? I really do not think you will see any noticeable gains in pruning, even if it doesn't make it hermi, it will stress it and growth will be slowed for a few days. SO, you might see fatter buds by pruning but they will be 2 or 3 days smaller from shock than if you just let it grow happy. There are also essential nutirents and sugars in those leaves that flow to the bud during the final days before harvest, so trimming those leafs may affect flavor or even potency.
In short, the cons outweigh the pros.
In short, the cons outweigh the pros.
Brick Top
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Actually it does matter and it continues to matter right up until the last moment plants are alive.
Just because you are going to harvest them it doesnt mean they stop their natural processes and to do anything that will cease the different processes will only result in the final outcome being less, to some degree, than it otherwise could be.
There are no gains to be made by cutting fan leaves at any time, so why do it? There are losses to be had if you cut fan leaves at any time, so why do it?
There are no pros to cutting leaves, there are no positives to cutting leaves.
There are cons and negatives but if that is your goal then by all means cut away.
inval
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This is a difficult point that I go back and forth about. I personally do not believe in trimming leaves at any point. in side by side experiments that I have done, trimmed plants simply don't do as well. I have friends that swear by the practice, however. Their argument is that in a packed grow room environment, the plants benefit from some trimming to allow greater light penetration. I see the advantage of greater light penetration but I know that leafing definitely slows down production. Is there a happy medium? Some of my friends say that there is a benefit to just removing some of the fan leaves to allow for greater light penetration. What about a really packed growing environment? Is there any benefit to some leafing??
longlizard
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You should leave them alone unless they are YELLOW.
HomeGrown420baby
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man whatever..the last 24-48 hours is the least growth u will see in ur buds thats y i cut the leaves then it focuses on just the buds..it already took all the energy it could..the point in cutting the leaves is so the bud not the leaves get hit with more light..y do u focus on growing leafs we dont get high off the leaves its the thc in the bud and if u expose ur bud to more light especially uvb it will make ur thc levels higher
HomeGrown420baby
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thats bs dude i've done the same and notice trimmed plants do just as good as an untrimmed plant..trimming makes it easiar to water when u got a big ol plant and trimming focuses on the main colas or bigger buds not the little tiny buds towards the bottom of ur plant
darkdestruction420
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does putting light on the bud itself really help at all? the bud doesnt process light into energy its the leaves that give bud energy to grow right? thats what ive always thought.....if u could direct me to somewhere that says different i'd be very interested in reading it, u could have a good point......but i dont think so