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 H J Farnsworth
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 To trim the fan leaves or to not trim the fan leaves? 
#788884 - 08/07/15 05:34 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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That is the question. The plant is an auto that's three weeks or so into flower. Thanks everyone
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Re: To trim the fan leaves or to not trim the fan leaves? [Re: H J Farnsworth] 1
#788885 - 08/07/15 05:42 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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Don't trim the leaves.
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Re: To trim the fan leaves or to not trim the fan leaves? [Re: Deadkndys420] 1
#788890 - 08/07/15 07:21 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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Don't trim the leaves.
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Re: To trim the fan leaves or to not trim the fan leaves? [Re: CrushNazT] 1
#788902 - 08/07/15 09:26 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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Don't trim the leaves.
Fan leaves are like solar panels, cutting them off is cutting of your plants power source. Bad idea
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Re: To trim the fan leaves or to not trim the fan leaves? [Re: Hawksresurrection] 1
#788918 - 08/08/15 03:23 AM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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ALL LEAVES MATTER!!!! 
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Re: To trim the fan leaves or to not trim the fan leaves? [Re: 13buds]
#788922 - 08/08/15 07:06 AM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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"Black leaves don't matter" - GS
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H J Farnsworth
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Re: To trim the fan leaves or to not trim the fan leaves? [Re: GoonerHeClips]
#788959 - 08/08/15 04:55 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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Thanks everyone I got some laughs outta this thread 5 for you all.
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Re: To trim the fan leaves or to not trim the fan leaves? [Re: H J Farnsworth]
#789001 - 08/08/15 11:15 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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The only fans leaves you should be triming are the ones located before your bud.
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Re: To trim the fan leaves or to not trim the fan leaves? [Re: Mof] 1
#789005 - 08/08/15 11:49 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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GIdoubleB said:
The only fans leaves you should be triming are the ones located before your bud.
No.
Please avoid posting such misinformation in the future.
Try learning from the seasoned, and trusted cultivators around here instead.
Such as these guys.
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Don't trim the leaves.
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Don't trim the leaves.
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Don't trim the leaves.
Fan leaves are like solar panels, cutting them off is cutting of your plants power source. Bad idea
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ALL LEAVES MATTER!!!!
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Re: To trim the fan leaves or to not trim the fan leaves? [Re: Stoneth]
#789027 - 08/09/15 07:52 AM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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I used to be a defoliator. The plants hated it but chicks dug it...
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captain.koons
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Re: To trim the fan leaves or to not trim the fan leaves? [Re: GoonerHeClips]
#789120 - 08/10/15 12:05 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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I've experimented with defoliating to increase yield and it works in some cases. Especially in crops where you don't have a high calyx to leaf ratio.
I do it gradually starting with a lower branch prune, then once the canopy has filled in I gradually pluck and tuck fan leaves to allow more light.
Everything green is photosynthetic not just your fan leaves.
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Hawksresurrection
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Re: To trim the fan leaves or to not trim the fan leaves? [Re: captain.koons]
#789169 - 08/10/15 10:40 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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captain.koons said:
I've experimented with defoliating to increase yield and it works in some cases. Especially in crops where you don't have a high calyx to leaf ratio.
I do it gradually starting with a lower branch prune, then once the canopy has filled in I gradually pluck and tuck fan leaves to allow more light.
Everything green is photosynthetic not just your fan leaves.
Please don't spread mis information, defoliating never increases yield. Period.
Show me the double blind studies and I'll believe you
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oeric mckenna
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Re: To trim the fan leaves or to not trim the fan leaves? [Re: Hawksresurrection]
#789176 - 08/11/15 12:48 AM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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Agreed^
Even when it looks like a big leaf is blocking a bud, its directly supplying growth energy via light to that bud.
If you ever grow outdoors without disturbing them till fall (which I do to avoid making trails to them) you'll notice some major fat juicy buds within dense leaf patches.
As stated, the leaves are how the plant does its thing, and surface area is everything.
Thats how indicas with rock hard, large buds get them that way... with monster wide fan leaves.
Notice the thin wirey leaf to thin wirey bud correlation of certain pure sativas.
Im running a few now...
Edited by oeric mckenna (08/12/15 12:03 AM)
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Re: To trim the fan leaves or to not trim the fan leaves? [Re: Hawksresurrection] 1
#789178 - 08/11/15 01:42 AM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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I couldn't give half a fuck what you believe.
How would you even conduct a double blind study? Would I not tell the plants they're being defoliated?
Also, if fan leaves supplied energy to bud as effectively as direct light exposure there wouldn't be any popcorn bud.
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Re: To trim the fan leaves or to not trim the fan leaves? [Re: captain.koons] 1
#789243 - 08/11/15 03:21 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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Also, if fan leaves supplied energy to bud as effectively as direct light exposure there wouldn't be any popcorn bud.
its because the LEAVES arent getting the light in the undergrowth not because the buds arent, thats like saying you get smaller apples on the bottom of a tree just because they are on the bottom. 
no need to get so angry, these dudes know there stuffs. 
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Re: To trim the fan leaves or to not trim the fan leaves? [Re: 13buds]
#789318 - 08/12/15 02:04 AM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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Which is solved by removing fan leaves in a continual and strategic manner. I'll keep at it all the same. This method is used by many at a large scale, some go so far as to pick fan leaves daily (in a gradual manner).
I'm so angry, as indicated by my posts. Just absolutely losing my shit. I'm actually going to lose sleep over this.
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oeric, that's an interesting observation however narrow leaves don't mean loose buds, not one bit. It's something that would hold true with landrace sativas but not hybrids. You can have sativa leaves and rock hard buds which is actually very common with most sativa-indica hybrids with any commercial value.
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Re: To trim the fan leaves or to not trim the fan leaves? [Re: captain.koons]
#789393 - 08/12/15 06:33 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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You are one angry little man. Who is still wrong
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captain.koons
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Re: To trim the fan leaves or to not trim the fan leaves? [Re: Hawksresurrection]
#789438 - 08/13/15 03:41 AM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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Anything but angry or little.
Can you tell me a bit more about how to conduct a double blind study? I'll dedicate my resources to coming to conclusion. Must be double blind, as you requested as that's the only time you will be a believer.
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Re: To trim the fan leaves or to not trim the fan leaves? [Re: captain.koons]
#789444 - 08/13/15 06:03 AM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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I suppose you could take 2 similar sized buds in their young stage and cut the leaves off one....
Ive seen, thru mite attacks and such, that when a top bud begins to lose leaves it will halt development.
Also the correlation between amount of foliage and water uptake. therefore by defailt, nutrient uptake.
It also stresses and can even shock the plant into quitting water uptake entirely.
Seems to be the same way trees work... the leaves convert solar energy for the apples.
The most dense, quickest ripening buds seem to be the ones with monster leaves.
The thinner leaved strains do their thing with an increased amount of their thin leaves.
With a very chunky leafless strain like bubba kush, if you trim the large leaves there'll be nothing left to absorb solar energy
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Re: To trim the fan leaves or to not trim the fan leaves? [Re: oeric mckenna] 2
#789460 - 08/13/15 10:09 AM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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I suppose you could take 2 similar sized buds in their young stage and cut the leaves off one....
I'm not talking about defoliating a 6-8" clone. You would suppose wrong if you think that experiment would prove anything. Why don't we just cut the cotyledons off of a seedling? I'm also going to go out on a limb and assume you don't know what a double blind experiment is.
I'm talking about gradually defoliating a plant that a. possibly has a less than stellar calyx to leaf ratio, ie. it's a leafy plant. b. is part of an incredibly dense canopy that needs thinning. ie. I have a stellar pheno of OG Kush x NL5Hz traditionally grown I would plant around 6 per meter or 9 per 4x4 to achieve a full canopy this is with a 28 day veg flowering time is approx 12-13weeks. The same pheno I've double planted in 5 gal smart pots and squeezed 32 into a 4x4 area I achieve a full canopy with the employment of supercropping so each plant takes up approximately half of the tomato cage. I cut down veg time to ten days (of HID, the clones come in fully rooted and around 6-8") By end of week 2 of flower I have the stubborn branches tied down to the cages. These are GRADUALLY defoliated as the buds grow in this particular phenotype is done in 10 weeks and all the weight is there by week 8 or 9 so I aim to be mostly defoliated before then. I suspect this is more attributed to the phenotype and it's flowering time being extended when it grows a larger root mass rather than defoliating. The overall result is more yield a month sooner. I've tried the same planting density without defoliating and ended up overcrowded so I was forced to do it anyways.
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Seems to be the same way trees work... the leaves convert solar energy for the apples.
That's an interesting observation, however a cannabis plant is largely photosynthetic which is indicated by it's green appearance. A tree is largely non photosynthetic as much of it is outer bark is dead, which leaves the leaves (hehe) as the only significant photosynthetic part of an apple tree.
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The most dense, quickest ripening buds seem to be the ones with monster leaves.
The thinner leaved strains do their thing with an increased amount of their thin leaves.
Indicas ripen quicker than sativas and have large fan leaves. I don't know how this is relevant.
Sativas can ripen as quick as the average indica and veg significantly faster.
Hybrids can veg as quick as a sativa, ripen as fast as an indica, have the calyx to leaf ratio and thin leaves of a sativa, and the density of an indica. Also irrelevant.
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Re: To trim the fan leaves or to not trim the fan leaves? [Re: captain.koons]
#789477 - 08/13/15 12:32 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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captain.koons said:
Anything but angry or little.
Can you tell me a bit more about how to conduct a double blind study? I'll dedicate my resources to coming to conclusion. Must be double blind, as you requested as that's the only time you will be a believer.
Well you obviously wouldn't be doing it yourself. Get 4 plus growers, apply same grow method, nutes all the environmental shit. Now we those 4 growers decide among themselves to do a method of not trimming, some apply your method.
Repeat the process a few times, compare quality and quantity.
I was never advocating no removal of leaves whatsoever. But it's extremely minimal for me. Usually only yellowing ones that already want to come off. I will tuck them so they don't cover a bud though
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Re: To trim the fan leaves or to not trim the fan leaves? [Re: Hawksresurrection] 2
#789483 - 08/13/15 12:51 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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Sorry, you must be trolling me as this doesn't fit the criteria for a double blind experiment. You design the double blind experiment, I will conduct it.
For the record the defoliated plants would be the control variable, the non defoliated plants would be the control variable. A double blind experiment is where the researchers and participants don't know who belongs to what group. That would be pretty fucking hard to pull off in this situation.
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Re: To trim the fan leaves or to not trim the fan leaves? [Re: captain.koons]
#789504 - 08/13/15 03:37 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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I don't think you can do a double blind study with leaf trimming because the grower knowingly has to trim the leaves.
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captain.koons
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Re: To trim the fan leaves or to not trim the fan leaves? [Re: H J Farnsworth]
#789505 - 08/13/15 04:14 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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Correct, I was just amusing myself. As Hawk said he won't believe me until he sees the double blind trials.
Blind is where the volunteer or subject has information kept from him or her often times if that person falls into the placebo/control group or not.
Double blind is where neither the participants or researchers know to further remove bias.
Neither is appropriate for this sort of test as we're working with quantitative values.
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Re: To trim the fan leaves or to not trim the fan leaves? [Re: captain.koons]
#789509 - 08/13/15 05:12 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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Well then lets just have it at some side by side results then. It can still technically be a blind study, just not a double blind.
You would be reading the results but not knowing which group is the method that you would prefer.
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Re: To trim the fan leaves or to not trim the fan leaves? [Re: Hawksresurrection]
#789510 - 08/13/15 05:31 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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May 2016 be the year this debate is put to rest.
Cause I want to know.
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Re: To trim the fan leaves or to not trim the fan leaves? [Re: H J Farnsworth]
#789524 - 08/13/15 09:04 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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Just plant a bunch of clones from the same plant next to each other under the same light with same nutes and defoliate some and not the others. Repeat it with a few harvests and compare results each time.
Science doesnt have to be overly complicated just do side by side trials and compare results over time to see if a noticable pattern occurs. One grow wont suffice, do it a few times and with different varieties as every variety will respond differently. Plants will always adapt to the weirdest shit, there will always be exceptions to any rule, so just do a bunch of trials and see what happens.
And quit arguing like lil bitches.
Personally though...if the leaves arent yellow or sickly, i would leave them.
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Re: To trim the fan leaves or to not trim the fan leaves? [Re: Hawksresurrection] 2
#789553 - 08/14/15 08:29 AM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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Well then lets just have it at some side by side results then.
I have no intention of doing a side by side. I said I would do a double blind to please you, because I thought you must of known what's up. Turns out you like using big words you hear on discovery. You rather indicate someone is angry or wrong than contribute something productive.
I have little desire to investigate something that will 1. cost me money 2. not prove anything to me. 3. it's also very easy to obtain specific results in favor of defoliation or in favor of no trimming. To be effective it has to be experimented with and there's no method that will work for all plants. Fact of the matter is, it's easy to find several commercial operations which defoliate and break the 2lb a light margin with average yielders at best. They're out yielding 99% of the online community and growing on a 100+ light scale. Do you think they would be using these techniques to their detriment and still be killing it?
If I wanted to be in favor of no trim I'd just defoliate in a high light low plant density environment. This has been done on a side by side.
If I wanted to be in favor of no trim, I could also just defoliate too much and it's game over for the plant.
If I wanted to favor defoliation, I'd reproduce the results I explained above regarding my pheno of OG KUSH x NLhz.
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Re: To trim the fan leaves or to not trim the fan leaves? [Re: captain.koons]
#789683 - 08/15/15 09:54 AM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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So you don't have confidence that your way is more productive? You can sit there and shit on me for using the wrong terminology, that's fine. But when it comes down to it you are just upset that someone who has been growing for quite a long time, with great results, disagrees with your methods. And will say so.
For all the talk about how amazing you defoliated plants do, we haven't seen shit from you as far as proof.
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Re: To trim the fan leaves or to not trim the fan leaves? [Re: Hawksresurrection]
#789690 - 08/15/15 10:45 AM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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I'm not angry, I couldn't be angry with someone disagreeing with me on such a general level. As said there's many variables as such defoliation isn't going to benefit each and every grow, especially done incorrectly ie. too much too soon. I could easily design a side by side experiment that would appear unbiased to the those who haven't used defoliation successfully either to support defoliation or no trim, which I explained above. I can direct you to a defoliation experiment where the plants had an abundance of light in either situation and they defoliated too much too soon and the defoliated plants suffered. I can also direct you to a 148k grow where the user defoliates to great success. Besides, how could I be angry with someone for disagreeing with me when they simply say that I'm wrong and request a double blind experiment. Never to be caught after continuous prodding. I have nothing to prove. Disagree all you want.
I'm not here to dedicate my resources to the benefit of people I'm not particularly fond of (you) only to lead to financial loss on my end (loss of yield).
Again I don't know why you feel the onus is on me to prove anything. You all the same could design an experiment to display why defoliation is at the detriment to yield.
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Re: To trim the fan leaves or to not trim the fan leaves? [Re: captain.koons]
#789715 - 08/15/15 02:05 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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After thinking on this for a while and looking at how light hits some plants I've concluded that in an outdoor situation light my own removing the leaves won't matter because the sun is always moving so just because something is shaded by a leaf doesn't mean it will be in 30 minutes. Indoors I have no opinion.
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Re: To trim the fan leaves or to not trim the fan leaves? [Re: H J Farnsworth] 1
#789734 - 08/15/15 05:06 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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You're also not packing as many plants as possible into a small area.
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Re: To trim the fan leaves or to not trim the fan leaves? [Re: captain.koons]
#789760 - 08/16/15 02:10 AM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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Take off the side branches leave everything else.
   
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Re: To trim the fan leaves or to not trim the fan leaves? [Re: Magash] 1
#789761 - 08/16/15 03:25 AM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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Sweet 16 is a bad bitch, you've bred for low branching. Defoliation/debranching is strain dependent. Still waiting for you to get those beans going.
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Re: To trim the fan leaves or to not trim the fan leaves? [Re: captain.koons]
#790063 - 08/17/15 06:56 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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Well, trimming leaves outdoor would be a waste of plant's energy.
But trimming leaves indoor could actually help a little, but only if:
1. Grow box isn't big (not tent or room), I'm talking about one plant box.
2. You LST like crazyyy.
3. You defoliate only the lower part of the plant, never defoliate the top branches' leaves.
One grower grows like that, he uses hydroponics, leds, p. small growbox. He gets really good yields in the context of g/m2. He developed this way of growing within practical way - he grew like that many times.
Anyway, I can't remember much, but he starts by topping as soon as possible, a very little plant, then he does shit with it like tops it 5 times... While LST... Oh, and, he grows only one plant.
Thoughts?
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Re: To trim the fan leaves or to not trim the fan leaves? [Re: hobowizard]
#790065 - 08/17/15 07:15 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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I've heard of tucking leaves in outdoor scenarios, and also cutting small bottom branches off and lower leaves up the plant a bit during veg.
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Re: To trim the fan leaves or to not trim the fan leaves? [Re: loco801]
#790232 - 08/19/15 01:17 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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trimming the small branches from the lower part is truly a great idea. also, you could make some clones out of those branches, as I did recently
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Re: To trim the fan leaves or to not trim the fan leaves? [Re: H J Farnsworth]
#794705 - 09/26/15 04:50 PM (9 years, 2 months ago) |
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A mature plant will pretty much defoilate herself when ready. Dont cut the leaves
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Re: To trim the fan leaves or to not trim the fan leaves? [Re: H J Farnsworth]
#794731 - 09/26/15 08:23 PM (9 years, 2 months ago) |
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H J Farnsworth said:
That is the question. The plant is an auto that's three weeks or so into flower. Thanks everyone
Okay, here's the Facts;
Contrary to myth, most sun or fan leaves shot not be removed from the plant during the vegetative stage. These leaves are costly for the plant to produce, and they are sugar factories that turn the light into chemical energy. These sugars are used to power metabolism and are also used for tissue building by combining them with N and P to make amino acids and proteins. When a leaf is removed, the plant loses a source of energy, and its rate of growth slows. Gardeners who routinely remove the fan leaves from their plants outdoors slow growth and lower yields.
If you don't believe this, try an experiment with a small branch growing from either side. Remove one of the leaves and see which branch developes faster.
Sometimes a few fan leaves block light from a large section of a plant. These leaves can be removed if, on the whole, the plant receives better distribution of light.
Similarly, leaves that are constantly in shadow such as leaves below the canopy indoors are not contributing to plant growth, so they should be removed. Similar to "lollipop" pruning, this eliminates the risk of infection, improves air circulation, lowers humidity, and reduces the demand for nutrients.
Leaves that are directly blocking light from getting to buds or the cola should also be removed. This becomes more prominent. However, leaves near the buds but not blocking light should be left in place.
Remove yellow leaves, as well as any infected or infested material.
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AGrower
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Re: To trim the fan leaves or to not trim the fan leaves? [Re: AGrower]
#794732 - 09/26/15 08:31 PM (9 years, 2 months ago) |
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There does not need to be a double blind anything, or any kind of contest, or experiment. They have already been done at oaksterdam university. Your answer is now 1 above this comment^^^
Your Welcome.
Good Luck
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