Removing fan leaves

[happybudda420]

Thanks for the links katt I'm looking forward to reading them

 

Peace

[Train Wreck]

I am a shade leaf plucker,I pluck until i'm done  

I pluck to let the light right in, it brightens up my buds, 

I don't do this to all my plants and leave some for the mum

I pluck mainly those big fat leaves from my indi doms. ...........

[Faith]

Youse are too proud man.  Humble is better.....   trainwreck/

Peace.v

Edited November 29, 2013 by Vinno

[haze420mist]

You mentioned you plucked fan leaves because of mites you should spray them with a friendly pesticide will rid them early

 

Haze

Edited November 29, 2013 by haze420mist

[happybudda420]

Hey haze I had been spraying pyretheum on her for the last 4 weeks, those suckers were hard to kill off for good.

I sprayed her again after I removed the fan leaves and since I haven't seen one infested leaf.

Touch wood they are no more.

 

Peace

[Lenore]

Thanks for the links katt I'm looking forward to reading them

 

Peace

 

Your very welcome.

 

Hey haze I had been spraying pyretheum on her for the last 4 weeks, those suckers were hard to kill off for good.

I sprayed her again after I removed the fan leaves and since I haven't seen one infested leaf.

Touch wood they are no more.

 

Peace

 

Have you tried neem oil? You can get it as a product called Mite Rid, I'm thinking only stocked by hydro stores. And there's a product at Bunnings (Masters too) called Eco-Neem. Not cheap but not too exxy.

 

It has a two week with holding period tho. So don't use it within two weeks of harvest.

Yes, it's natural, no nasty chemicals, but I can't imagine it would do you any good to be smoking it.

 

All the best with the bugs.

Katt.

[See]

You can buy 500ml of pure neem oil for about $20 odd dollars delivered, Make your own bug spray.

500ml will last a long time as not much is needed.

Edited November 30, 2013 by See

[happybudda420]

Thanks guys I will try that if I have any more pest issues.

 

Peace

[happybudda420]

Hey guys here's another update on my girl since all those fan leaves were removed. She is looking great and is soaking up the sun in more areas imo. So far so good. Here's a before picture and a couple taken this morning. 

 

Thanks everyone for the advice given I really appreciate the help. 

 

Peace out 

 

 

[MrTrimbole]

Nice man!

 

I am in the camp of semi defoliation and as kat i normally do my pruning around week 5 or 6. I tried it on 2 different strains and left the other 2 of similar strains untouched. I noticed the auto after having pruned her about 60-40 that the buds in week 7 started to fatten up a lot, whereas the other pheno the buds were a little less ligh in weight than the unpruned version. So maybe strain has a lot to do with it?

 

But then there's flushing..aren't the buds sucking energy from what ever was stored the fan leafs as one final run?

 

Theres a lot of for and against on this topic and lot of passionate debates on both sides, but i guess its up to you to find out what works best with what ever strain you have.

 

BTW boring advice but works well all the time, ignore the troll.