Pruning?

[deks23]

Hi all I'm 2 weeks into flower and want to prune my 3 plants I have so the light can penetrate the lower part of the plant becoz they are pretty tall how much of the fans leaves can I snip??? I have seen pics of some plants with hardly any fan leaves and others with quite a few I'm growing Big Bud strain

[jcj77d]

never remove any fan leaves, they act as solar panals collecting light & converting it into energy for growth. u can tuck, tie back, or trim part of the leaf to get better light penitration. or add some cfl's around the sides.

[deks23]

oops i already did but they wernt looking too clever tho the ones i did remove

[GrowBot]

if you can't tuck it pluck it! there's "no" problem with pruning. the key is not to do too much at any one time. stretch it out for a couple days. fluorescent side lighting is pretty much a waste. in order for them to do any good, they must be very close. you do that, and now you're restricting airflow. i'm talking about fixtures like t-5's. the bulbs would be totally laughable. if you keep your plants at a height that doesn't go much beyond the lights penetration depth, you don't need to worry about the sides.

[luckyleaf2]

To each there own but i would bend those suckers at a 90 degree angle and tie down.

Then tuck adjust or how ever you wanna move leaves around and lower the lights.Try to bend the plants to get as close to a even canopy across the top of you grow.


But removing leaves would be a last resort for myself.