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Can i Cut Fanleafes

JSanchezz
JSanchezzstarted grow question 3 months ago
Hello can I cut off the large leaves in day 24 veg, they cover large parts of the plant with shade ?
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Sit_Ubu_Sit_Good_Dog
Sit_Ubu_Sit_Good_Doganswered grow question 3 months ago
You can but you'll just reduce photosynthetic potential of entire plant as well as reduce CO2 intake, which is probably your biggest limiting factor. Leaves provide value beyond absorbing light. They are the "lungs," they are the storage facility. they add way more value than light that quickly spreads out the further away from the light it goes.. meaning any lower leaves that get some light are getting less of it than the leaves above. if you have a full canopy underneath them, that's less of a negative, but those bad boys pull in a lot of CO2 and you'd basically be throwing out a lot of fertilizer that the plant took in, processsed and stored in the leaft... a lot of wasted energy, imo... relative to 2 leaves, they are also a disproportionately larger chunk of leaf surface area at the moment. always have a good reason. don't do it out of habit. You can always remove a leaf... but there better be a good reason or it's a net-negative.
AutoflowersSucK
AutoflowersSucKanswered grow question 3 months ago
so sick of the bimbo answers in this bullshit rag of a website. And this stupid win free shit for the most incorrect horse shit answers in a month! Fuck this bullshit platform. Half of the answers here are either googled, or just complete nonsense. I wouldn't recommend you come here for help with your plants because 99% of the people that answer just care about swag and don't give a fuck how they get it.
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AutoflowersSucK
AutoflowersSucKanswered grow question 3 months ago
What i tell ya... TELL ME, if the fan leaves offer so much value that you can't spare a single one because they provide more benefit being on the plant.....explain to me why the lower 3rd of the bud sites never fill out the way the upper portion of the plant does.....you know, the portion of the plant thats closest to the ummm, shit, i forget.....whats the word i'm looking for...starts with an L.....
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Sit_Ubu_Sit_Good_Dog
Sit_Ubu_Sit_Good_Doganswered grow question 3 months ago
* they add more value than 'just' absorbinglight, i should have said in that 3rd sentence of 2nd paragraph.
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Scrubbyjimbob
Scrubbyjimbobanswered grow question 3 months ago
I second Auto's statement.
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AutoflowersSucK
AutoflowersSucKanswered grow question 3 months ago
Yes you can, despite what the bimbo's will inevitably tell you on here...
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