To prune or not to prune?

immason25

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I am 32 days into a GG4 auto indoor grow, maybe 2-3 weeks into vegetation. I am curious if I should prune leaves that are covering newer smaller leaves and branches that have began to show in the last week. These new stems and leaves all around the plant(up and down), I just caught a picture of one side of them.

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BigMoistDaddy

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I am 32 days into a GG4 auto indoor grow, maybe 2-3 weeks into vegetation. I am curious if I should prune leaves that are covering newer smaller leaves and branches that have began to show in the last week. These new stems and leaves all around the plant(up and down), I just caught a picture of one side of them.

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your plant looks a lot like mine
 

PopAndSonGrows

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Nah but IMO just trim the lowest "row" of leaves closest to the soil, should only be about 4 no more than 5 leaves total.

Don't worry about any leaves "blocking bud sites" on a plant this young that's still vegging. You need as many leaves as possible going into flower, but, give 'er a pluckin' once in a while, bunched up leaves between the branches for example.
 
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OM2

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I wouldn't remove any leaves now, it's not that bushy. The plant will need every bit of energy going into flower, both from light and food.
Once you start seeing deficiencies it will usually show up in the older leaves first, the plant will eat food from them, and eventually those deficient leaves will yellow, brown and dry up. And that will be your natural defoliation on its own, and a way for you tell when to feed and what to feed.
If you remove leaves now, any deficiency will show up in the newer leaves that you want to keep, then you'll have a shortage of green leaves. Just keep everything for now.

You could use a wire to raise that lower leaf touching the moist soil. Maybe LST soon. And what is that white stuff on the right side?
 

immason25

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I wouldn't remove any leaves now, it's not that bushy. The plant will need every bit of energy going into flower, both from light and food.
Once you start seeing deficiencies it will usually show up in the older leaves first, the plant will eat food from them, and eventually those deficient leaves will yellow, brown and dry up. And that will be your natural defoliation on its own, and a way for you tell when to feed and what to feed.
If you remove leaves now, any deficiency will show up in the newer leaves that you want to keep, then you'll have a shortage of green leaves. Just keep everything for now.

You could use a wire to raise that lower leaf touching the moist soil. Maybe LST soon. And what is that white stuff on the right side?
Thanks for the insight!

Since the original post I have trimmed the lowest set of leaves since they were not getting any light and we’re dropping into the soil and she has grown so much since then.

The white stuff was some residual diatomaceous earth that got on the leaves in that area on accident. Had to treat for a minor pest issue.
 
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