nobody envies the spurr...
One point is that if you remove a lower fan leaf to provide light to a lower flower, you are detracting from the energy which feeds the whole of the plant in general but likely your main cola/bunch of flowers. To the best of my knowledge flowers or buds as they are mistakenly labelled do not photosynthesize.
... Flowers themselves also photosynthesize, but not as well as leafs.
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take of ten fans, lay them on the ground and look at the 2ft of sqaure light u just libberated to your canopy, without light stuff dont grow, cannabis has more then enough fans even on the buds, want bigger buds take of fans. i actually will pic of just one finger of a leaf to free up available light to just one bud site, my room has every inch as manicured as need be and its night n day in my results.
as long as the light is being used, I'm happy. Any green that is casting a shadow = light being used. If it's being absorbed by a leaf it's either going to a cola or a lower bud. I LST for a fairly even canopy of colas with as thick a layer of fan leaves as I can create beneath that. Any buds below that aren't getting light get clipped early in flower. No popcorn, larf, whatever you want to call it...no "wasted" energy. That's at least how I like to look at it. I could be wrong, but the most efficient grows gram per what are those that catch as much light as possible with budsites galore.
ya but the question remains - do you actually catch more light if your canopy is flat?
I mean, I already try to let the buds on the edges grow taller than the ones closer to the bulb. The screen is flat but I am trying to make a v shape.
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if spurr says it it must be true!