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Should I cut some fan leaves?

Eponymus29
Eponymus29started grow question 3 years ago
Hi and TIA, my plant is finishing week 5 of flower and I'm seeing some of the old fan leaves are turning yellow, so I wonder if it's a good idea to cut them or should I leave them alone?
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Leaves. Color - Yellow
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Organoman
Organomananswered grow question 3 years ago
Congratulations on not defoliating, your plant needs all the energy that the leaves make, to be able to grow her biggest and best flowers. Only cut them off when they are really yellow. The reason they go yellow is that the plant is taking sugars, amino acids, starches, vitamins etc from those older leaves to be used for flower growing, as it is more efficient for the plant to re-use the pre-made elements from the older leaves, than it is to grow flowers and make those growth elements from new at the same time as growing the flowers. Had you cut off the leaves before they turned yellow, not only does this reduce the plants capacity to produce energy, thereby reducing growth, it also robs it of this vital resource of pre-made growth elements she has cleverly stored in her older leaves for use during the flowering cycle. All of the plants energy is made in the leaves. Less leaves = less energy production = less growth. Besides, cutting off healthy green leaves and forcing your plant to grow new healthy green leaves is stupid in my opinion, and no doubt, the plants opinion too! If the plant would not need those leaves, it would not grow them in the first place! Hope this helps, Organoman.
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Itsgnomegrown
Itsgnomegrownanswered grow question 3 years ago
Just tie them together under the canopy they will fall off and snap on there own. Sometimes too much is more problems then topping more than needed. With autos I tie under the main cola, with photos, I’ll cut every fan leave except the four under the bud sites and let ‘em swell.
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m0use
m0useanswered grow question 3 years ago
If you need any other help with this hit up your DM's Your inbox is the little green arrow on the bottom right hand corner. Good Luck!
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Jhindlehydro
Jhindlehydroanswered grow question 3 years ago
Those should of been off before flower. . but yah once she's yellowed theyl start falling off almost.
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m0use
m0useanswered grow question 3 years ago
If this was my grow I would do a light defoliation. Only remove the fan leaves that are blocking proper light and airflow to the bud sites. Some LST may also be applied to help separate the colas from each other as well. Be gentle, given your light switch from 12/12 was 5 weeks ago its only been in flower for about 3 weeks, still early. Best Of Luck!
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