Pruning tips whilst flowering?

[LuvBuds]

Hi i have a few plants im flowering at the moment and was wondering if i should snip some of the leaf in order to give more of the plants energy to its buds it has. Me wanting nice Colas. Just a thought and wasnt sure so i thought id ask.

Cheers guys

[white_cluster]

well you lucky you did ask cos no. dont do that.

[northcrop]

hey white cluster

why cant u cut the big sun leaves off ? what does it do to the plants ?

 

 

 

 

well you lucky you did ask cos no. dont do that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

cheers northcrop

[Luke Skywalker]

The leaves are basically food factories for the plants. They convert sunlight, water and co2 into sugar, water and o2. This means that if you reduce the plants food making capacity, you're directly interfering with it's ability to produce buds. Light is important in getting large buds, for sure, but removing the leaves to acheive this is going to do more damage to the plant than any amount more of light penetration will give.

 

There are a few growers who trim lower fan leaves on the canopy buds in SCROG just after they penetrate the screen, this is supposed to be just enough to allow more light, but not enough removal of plant material to stress the plants too much.

 

If you must remove a part of the plant, make it a whole branch, leaving a decen "heel" at the base of the cut to prevent any infection of the mainstem. Removing leaves is usually more trouble than it's worth.

 

The only exception, IMO, is when a leaf is more than 50% permanently damaged in some way, usually nutrient burns, although they also become damaged and yellowed at the base level when the plants get high and dense enough so that the lowest leaves receive almost no light at all, and the plants themselves will abort them anyway.

 

Hope that helps.

[gunjaponic]

I love reading your posts Luke.

[Gazza2001au]

cutting off a plants leaf is like cutting of one of its sugar souces only cut off dead or dying leafs its common sence why cut off a nice and healthy leaf?

[Luke Skywalker]

And that was the short version of what I said.

[jackfrost]

If you have got 2 remove the fan leves from your plant, pull open your bud and remove the steam of the leaf right back at the node on the main branch of the plant.

 

The reason for this is ive seen so many plants get bud rot when people just cut the fan leaves off where they poke out of the main bud cola, the rest of the steam in the bud rots all the way back to the node every time, causing budrot/mold to start.

 

Hope this helps

 

JF, peace