Giant fan leaves in way of budsites...
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leave them some believe(me included) That the leave are the solar panels for your plants they convert the light into sugars and energy for the plant
I have also read somewhere that the leaves are 25% opaque so some light passes through them, but i dont know how true that is
I have also read somewhere that the leaves are 25% opaque so some light passes through them, but i dont know how true that is
sunlight does make it through fan leaves. leave them be, they are there for a reason.
Yep.... sunlight doesn't go through black plastic but my plant grew a big fat bud underneath it anyway.
Your bud will grow large and then the fan leaf will fall off and the bud will still mature in the sun properly.
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I have a friend,that supercrops those big fans,and it works good,without trimming.
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well yes thats true to a point, but the stem is also green, and therefore contains chlorophyl, but that doesnt mean yield is enhanced by stripping the plant back to the stem. The leaves arent only the major power factory for the plant, but also provide a place for essential gass exchanges to happen. These are essential for photosynthesis to occur. The buds are essentially a housing for wouldbe seeds, and while they are basically leaf material, they arent designed to be super leaves in hiding, waiting to be exposed for nature switch its turbo boosters on. If the plant didn't need leaves, then they wouldnt spend the resources on building them.
buds do actually grow bigger with direct sunlight. a couple of fan leaves shading a bud will slow it a hell of alot.
remove some if you think that bud will actually grow alot better and its nearer the top of the plant.
remove some if you think that bud will actually grow alot better and its nearer the top of the plant.
no it won't. maybe inside a grow room. not outside under the sun. the sun's rays go right through that fan leaf. as someone has already said that fan leaf is acting as a solar panel.
With outdoor plants you can without any problem remove the big fanleaves once a are about halfway flowering or in the final weeks.
it will actually cause the buds to become a lot bigger cuz there is much more light.
Outdoor plants usually have literally too many leaves
it will actually cause the buds to become a lot bigger cuz there is much more light.
Outdoor plants usually have literally too many leaves
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Jydsk
In most cases your right, but bigger buds i have not noticed, another thing when outdoors is the fact that humidity plays a big part and the more air circulation the better....hence compact plants and bud have a fair chance for mold attacks
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mrred
anyone ever do a side by side of the same clones and removed the fan leafs off 1 and left the other alone?
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If light penetration were unlimited in its power, it would simply burn through the leaves like a laser beam. If, as one poster stated, half the light gets thru a leaf, how many leaves before this half life renders the light useless?
What about popcorn? The more light you get to the bottom and inside of your plant, the more substantial the lower buds.
I think that the reason your fans start to die at this point is because your plants have stopped using them as solar panels because they are old and inefficient... they just suck the nutrition out of em and use the healthier, more efficient parts of the plant for photosynthesis. While I have not done an plant vs plant comparison, I did successfully eliminate most of my popcorn on my last *and first* harvest by letting more light in.
The whole idea of leaving your ganja plants alone to do things on their own is just laughable. No offense to whoever said that, but the art of growing good ganja is exactly that.... our selecting, training, feeding, pruning, supporting and loving is everything to these plants.
I believe that if I just left my plants to do their own thing every time I thought I might be able to help in some way, I would not have the thriving plants that I have today.
Also, trimming fans increases airflow which lowers the odds of mold. Mold can eat more of your crop in one overnight than a 10% inbcrease in photosynthetic efficiency would increase it. So even if I am totally wrong about the light, its not a bad idea to keep your plants trimmed just enough to encourage better airflow.
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If light penetration were unlimited in its power, it would simply burn through the leaves like a laser beam. If, as one poster stated, half the light gets thru a leaf, how many leaves before this half life renders the light useless?
What about popcorn? The more light you get to the bottom and inside of your plant, the more substantial the lower buds.
I think that the reason your fans start to die at this point is because your plants have stopped using them as solar panels because they are old and inefficient... they just suck the nutrition out of em and use the healthier, more efficient parts of the plant for photosynthesis. While I have not done an plant vs plant comparison, I did successfully eliminate most of my popcorn on my last *and first* harvest by letting more light in.
The whole idea of leaving your ganja plants alone to do things on their own is just laughable. No offense to whoever said that, but the art of growing good ganja is exactly that.... our selecting, training, feeding, pruning, supporting and loving is everything to these plants.
I believe that if I just left my plants to do their own thing every time I thought I might be able to help in some way, I would not have the thriving plants that I have today.
Also, trimming fans increases airflow which lowers the odds of mold. Mold can eat more of your crop in one overnight than a 10% inbcrease in photosynthetic efficiency would increase it. So even if I am totally wrong about the light, its not a bad idea to keep your plants trimmed just enough to encourage better airflow.
