Remove fan leaves which block light

High bro, yes there are only 2 reasons to cut away leaves. The first one is when they block a huge amount of light for the rest of the plant like you got now! And the second reason is when leaves are stacked on eachother blocking airflow. The bottom leaf of the 2 stacked on eachother will be wet and you cut them away to prevent mold. Next to these 2 reasons there is not any reason to cut away leaves! They are the solar energy for the plant and the nuteient storages. So be carefull with curting them away most of the time it is not beneficial for the plant and will just decrease yield! Enjoy your grow buddy!

Hi buddy! Don't forget those leaves produce the sugars to fatten the buds for you. If the lower parts of the plant are far away from the LED, they won't get much intensity anyway. I would just consider that, if you feel safe with your nutrients and environment you can theoretically remove the leaves and always perfectly provide everything. I personally would not remove them, I have in the past and I had the feeling that the corresponding nodes had smaller side branches.. Your leaves look very good btw! Good job so far! Happy growing!!

not on that plant. there's only a handful of leaves. the sugars produced from photosynthesis are mobile. Yes, local production will more greatly impact local bud sites, but the top-most bud sites will always take the lion's share due to apical dominance. less is more in this regard. some people do this as a compulsion / obssession with not much thought or too much faith in the "method" that they neglect to see the repercussions of it. airflow is the better reason to do it. a bud sight 33% further away from your lights get significantly less intense light than the leaf removed above it (inverse sqare law at work with many points of light - each diode). so you took a leaf that was recieving more energy/light and now favoring a leaf that receives a lot less... not always a a good thing, but in some contexts, maybe so. i would leave more... learn what sort of problems actually are likely to occur in your environment, then adjust from there. that way you only take off what is needed. leaves power growth. they are relevant. higher leaves produce more ATP per day than lower leaves. ATP powers growth. we have it iin our bodies, too, though it is produced a different way (krebb's cycle? one aerobic, one anaerobic process - when you feel that 'burn' in muscles it's the anaerobic process caused by lactic acid buildup).

By the looks of those pictures, you've already topped it which is a bug stress factor. My next idea would be to apply some LST and once that settles down, then think about defoliating. It's always good to defoliate just as your plants switch into flowers to get it to produce big buds from light exposure. Have a fantastic day =) =) =)