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Should I cut off leaves or not?

Greenleaf99started grow question 5y ago

Hi everybody, I’m new here! I have a question: my “daiquiri lime auto” plant is now more or less at the third week of flowering phase, I thought that maybe some of the leaves down near the groung or the “useless” ones could be cutted off. What do you think? Thank u very much.

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Hempy_The_Kidanswered grow question 5y ago

They are technically not useless until they turn yellow and fall off. I personally wouldn't mess with autos because you're already going to get a smaller yield.

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