Ok I was wondering what people's thoughts were on cutting off the old dead fan leaves. Is it safe cut them off
If they're really dead, you can take them on off. The thing with trimming your plants during the flower cycle is that some strains are extremely sensitive to it and given enough, will make seeds. Some strains are very sensitive, some strains aren't. Once I know they're dead, they're dead so the plant has discarded them and I try to keep that kind of thing cleaned out of my plants because it makes it hard to trim when you harvest if you don't get all those dead leaves out. This is just me.