Should You Remove Fan Leaves During Flowering?
Should You Remove Fan Leaves During Flowering?
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Removing fan leaves is typically an indoor technique meant to encourage lower growth that typically would receive little to no direct light. If you wait too long to defoliate, you could be doing more harm than good. Fan leaves are the energy centers of the plant, working to absorb sunlight and convert the stored energy into sugar for use by other parts of the plant.
If you carefully and meticulously defoliate specific fan leaves in veg or very early in flower, you can positively impact growth, but this technique is best suited to indoor environments where the lighting is static. In dynamically lit environments, this technique may not be as useful for stimulating lower growth. A great alternative to defoliation is simply to bend and tuck the fan leaves instead: This way you can increase light penetration while minimizing damage and stress to your plants.
Here is another video to check out about this same topic by Jorge Cervantes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYq7CuVpAeo
Timestamps
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0:00 – Intro
0:19 – Should You Remove Fan Leaves During Flowering?
0:23 – When Is It Okay To Remove Fan Leaves?
0:29 – Why You Shouldn’t Remove Fan Leaves During Flower
0:57 – The Least Stressful Time to Take Off Fan Leaves While in Flower
1:10 – A Low-Stress Alternative To Removing Fan Leaves
1:19 – What Are The Benefits Of Removing Fan Leaves?
1:49 – Why You Typically Shouldn’t Remove Fan Leaves From An Outdoor Plant
2:16 – Comparing the Differences of Fixed VS Dynamic Lighting and Light Penetration of Plant Canopies
3:38 – Outro
Great logic 👍
Thank you for your help 🌺🥰 I wasn’t sure if I should remove leaves in flower stage. I watched so many vids on this. I really enjoyed you explaining it for me to understand what to do and not to do 👍❤️
Fan leaves don’t use energy, they produce it, they’re the refrigerator for your buds… Why do you think all the leaves turn yellow towards Harvest time, because the plant’s using and sucking the leaves dry, but if you don’t have any leaves for the plant to use, drrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Thank you I’m at my first successful grow and the budding process is beginning so thank you so much I’m an outdoor grower
I always do just cuz I like to make sure everything has even light you know. ive notice that when I take off all the big ass sun leaves the lower buds get bigger and frostier
Peace, my indoor girl is 3 weeks into flowering n I do remove fan leaves that are wrinkling or drooping etc I dont like removing anything from her as she’s alive n healthy etc
You’re the first one on YouTube to give an actual answer thank you
Here’s my opinion:
Fan leaves are good to keep when your a novice grower and you are feeding the plant, the less fan leaves you have the more careful you need to be with the feedings.
I have a friend that strips all the fans off couple weeks into flower and he has amazing results
My first ganj patch was in 1970..I’ve experimented dozens of times and if anything the plants with fan leaves removed no matter when did better than the ungroomed ones..light and air, pal. I’m not growing orchids here, it’s weed…
After week 4 of flower I dont do anymore stripping
Your suppose to prune your plant on all stages of its life. You keep alot of fan leaves take away from big buds and too many leaves create pest. So yes prune your plants. Check my channel out and I do it all the time. Your buds should actually be bigger than that. Been growing 10 years and never had a problem and you only wanna take off fan leaves that are too big or just blocking bud sites. Ppl prune your plants or you’ll have small buds and create pest
Removing fan leaves doesnt stress your plant imo. Mold and powdery mildew do though
What about yellow ones lik dieing i thing its a nitrogen prob ????
You should always remove fan leaves on week 3 of flower. Fan leave removal does not hurt the plant. So many advantages!
Hey there I wanna remove 3 branches from my photoperiod plant it’s in late flower and the 3 branches that I wanna remove aren’t producing flower but the other branches are getting fatter . The reason is that I want the plant to used it’s energy on the branches that have , ( the reason the branches I wanna cut are taking so long is because it’s a massive plant ))
If the leafs stems are purple,does that mean the leafs are taking the energy the bud its self is supposed to be taking in?
I have a outdoor plant growing in Washington that’s still in vegetation but I’m wondering where and what fan leaves to cut or if I should at all
Leave all them leaves on if u want bud rott.
And for air flow
What causes indoor fan leaves ends to start turning up on the end tip and getting dark spots of gray during flowering?
Bro I actually removed the fan leaves with an outdoor plant and the buds got HUGE. I’m from the Caribbean so it 12 12 all year round
I remove 75% of faan leafs after 3rd week of flowering
And my crop makes other look sick
Not to mention topping and lollipopping
Which i see you havent yet
Looks ok though but you could do more
I do in week 4,I defoliate for air flow,and better sunlight to places being blocked by the larger fan leaves,I also chop of lower branches that produce pop corn nugs,and I like to monster crop for a bigger yield,also alot of fan leaves can keep bugs and powdery mildew,that’s why I do it,and it gives me a bigger yield every time
Outdoor minimal indoor a little more
Removing fan leaves and stressing cause the terpines to develope! Even in outdoor!
Here’s another video on the same Topic by Jorge Cervantes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYq7CuVpAeo
Also, feel free to read through this thread and draw your own conclusions! https://www.rollitup.org/t/defoliation-removing-fan-leaves-for-higher-yield.352300/
in a rainy climate the plant needs better air flow to dry it out or the buds will get moldy , so removing the fan leaves can be beneficial in this scenario ? I have one plant outside that is so thick and wide, over 8′ wide to be exact, it’s thick I mean you cannot even see into the center of the plant on any side , so i’m worried about mold and of course caterpillars, spotting the egg might be nearly impossible with so much thickness , Did I say thick yet, it’s monster thick lol great video lots of good info, Peace !
Only reason to remove a fan leaf, is in early veg, and because it’s not ever going to get light. So many people are butchering plants on YT, and telling you to do the same. Plants can only take in the light they NEED, is through fan leaves.
Thanks for the info
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….super helpful and easily comprehended, thank you good sir!!
Thanks
Do you remove the yellow leaves when in flowering, or do you let them fall off? 🙏😯💨
Hello have you ever worked with any companies or sponsors that are related to growing while doing videos on Youtube? I ask because I had a company reach out about working together on one of our other channels and wanted to talk to a couple people that have already worked with companies or have any experience or pointers?!!! Lmk brotha
Thank You. I agree.
Do the plants take offense if I prune them a bit in the flowering tent?
I’ve packed my tent a little too much, and now they’re taking each other’s light. It’s like a SOG with plants that are a little too big. just a little.
The tentfloor is completely filled with pots, that just gets out of control.