serious question L@@K!!

I know not to cut fan leafs....but I was looking at this grow the other day and this farmer cut every single leaf off that was in the middle of the plant...not The very bottom leafs , and not very top leafs...just The ones in the middle...then I was looking at my grow and I could see the benefit...mind You I didn't ask y he did this...but I can see why now...if You grow SOG concept...like I do and have a sativa DOM PLANT...this Will help your plant IMO...cutting The the leafs in the middle of the plant will let more light shine down to "the bottom leafs"...this Technique is not to allow more light to reach the buds in the middle of the plant....this May work to allow the smaller colas near the bottom of the plant to grow were the fan leafs once were in the middle of the plant....
Basically you retard out some mid plant colas to grow the smaller bottom colas into larger top colas....if That make any sinse,,,

so the question....does This make since?....probably Not huh.

When mine get big, as in like 5 feet, I know the light does not go down there so I suround the plant with t5's.

I watch craigslist and buy them when people put them up. 100 dollar lights for like 20 bucks so I got a lot of them.

im more of a noob, have been for 5 years now ...lol still learning but i grow mostly sog top colas...and hope for the best with my mid plant colas...this is somthing i would read into more...obv. and not just start wacking leafs...

FLOWERMASTER said:

this is somthing i would read into more...obv. and not just start wacking leafs...

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I'm a believer of "the plant produced it for a reason" when it comes to trimming. I think shorter plants or under-canopy supplements are 100x better than tearing off the glucose producers.

I understand the concept, but I don't really see the practicality of it. I understand cutting away leaves during vegetation if they are shading other parts of the plant, but clipping away too much of the foliage would not be beneficial to the plant. The problem lies in the intensity, or lack thereof, of indoor lighting. Even if you chop most of the leaves away from the central part of the plant to allow more light to reach the bottom sections, the intensity of that light will have disintegrated greatly and won't produce yield regardless. You'd be better off using the SCROG method and sacrificing the lower sections for a bountiful canopy. At least in my opinion which isn't worth a damn.

This is an old technique from rose pruning. The ideal is that with roses you want more flowers.. you only get one flower per top so more tops the better. What they talk about is a bowl look to the plant. In that you want tops all around the center but the center to be clear. This allows much better air flow though the center of the plant and helps them avoid mildew and other problems.. So, it's mostly about preventive maintenance. Can't say you have to or don't need to.. you're mileage may very but that's the idea behind it all.

Right! I've liked this tech for some time for two strains, After a clone has been potted In a 1 quart container. I let it veg for about a week. I pull the lights up about 4in from top of clone this causes the plant to strech the first week, I then clean all the under brush from the bottom branches leaving the branch stems bare 2 or 3 in up. after the pruning I lower my lights to stop the streching and this starts the stacking of nodes. This is how you achieve multiple tops without topping. It just so happens I have a batch of melungeon magic I put in soil last saturday, so lets do one!
when you transplant for veg coat lower branches with cloning gel, and just bury them keep the base of the plant around the gel damp and roots will form. Each seperate branch will grow like a seperate cola!

i trim fans at weeks 2 & 5, and i trim from top down. 18% average yield increase when i do vs when i dont as a test. indoor grows should provide as close to perfect enviroment as possible and after first two weeks in flower they are not needed as much, the plants are concentrating on buds.

Useing this tech I have upped the production of this strain from about 1 1/8 ounce dry weight, to 3 to 3 1/2, ounces per 4 foot plant, great for sea of green growers, what no fifteen year old telling me how stupid I am for doing this?

Hum, you saying the sugars and starches, created by the fan leaves, The building blocks of BIG HAND GRENADE buds should be taken off in weeks 2 and 5, don't anybody thats reading this take this advice bad advice......bad advice.......Tuck them under bunch them and tie them to the stock, roll them up and tuck them under do whatever you need to to keep these on for blooming, It is no longer an issue if the fan leaves are not exposed to the light it is ok to tuck them under I never remove a fan leaf I take the hole branch. If I take a clone I leave the fan leaf. melungeon magic!!!!!! hand grenade.