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Ah I gotcha, yes I agree with you on that too, just the surface area alone of the fan leaves makes them invaluable to plant health, but as someone posted earlier, maybe tucking fans underneath buds will help increase THC production if not actual bud weight/size. Then again, I think there's a reason the tops are always the fattest buds, so they must be making use of the light in some fashion. I wonder how this could be tested or confirmed?
Its not necessarily that the main buds are getting more light that is making them get bigger. The main bud surrounds the largest and most used water/nutrient delivery pipe in the plant. It naturally will get more water and more usable nutrition from the plant. If you want larger buds on your plants you need to be paying more attention to what is below the surface as opposed to what is above it. Roots = buds. Now don't take me the wrong way. The light hitting the bud itself is a very important part. It tells the plant which way to grow and how fast. So side shoots being blocked by larger fan leaves may not be signaled by the plant itself to stretch. Branch doesnt stretch, therefore the stem feeding the branched doesn't get wider and results in less water and nutrition reaching the flower.