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I too only remove leaves that come off with little to no force. Usually these leaves display themselves as yellow, or crispy. I have found that when I just trim away the dead material from the leaf, that the cut area begins to yellow very quickly thereafter, leading me to think that the plant is ridding itself of this leaf naturally anyways. Some of my plants have seemed to be revived after being rid of dead weight damaged leaves.
I think cutting healthy leaves to reveal lower popcorn buds to light is not beneficial, and overzealous trimming of fan leaves for aesthetics or air circulation is detrimental and stunts growth.
Quote: Inverted said: Show me what is damaging by removing 10% of those, so that 50% of the plant will be allowed more direct light?
I don't believe you are "damaging" the plant, per se. Like somebody above said, light intensity is governed by the inverse square law. The energy that the larger and higher fan leaves take in is greater than the amount of energy that the lower fan leaves take in. So why remove a higher larger fan leaf that is doing more work? I am only talking about healthy fan leaves here. I can see pruning healthy leaves being more beneficial in shorter bushier indicas where the light won't have to travel much farther after a leaf has been removed, as opposed to stretched out sativas, where the internode distances are longer.
Hey Inverted I have a plant that looks almost exactly like yours, what strain is that? Mine is growing right now in my flower box, see it right there on the left?
I don't know what the strain is, I got the seed from a friend. I didn't want to waste to much time on an unknown strain when I had so many good known genetics to work with so I 12/12ed it from seed. It has one gnarley thick bud on top, and smells like nothing good.
Yea, all the would be nodes just ended up growing alongside the main stalk. Pretty typical for 12/12 from seed with an indica/ruderalis dominant strain. The top cola is just fat as hell. I just measured mine, it is only 16" tall from the base of the stalk. I just thought it looked really similar pheno-wise to yours.
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