SchwiftyGrower
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Thanks for your information TSD! This was my first and last time outdoors lmao! My main reason for removing the fan leaves was for air flow. Most of the leaves were touching bud sites during high humidity nights and no matter how much tucking I did they always popped back to the buds. I was so damn paranoid about bud rot on my one and only plant, that I did more stress and damage than I did good on her. Live and learn lolYeah I only take off degrading or damaged leaves usually, I get a little more intense once airflow becomes an issue and fall sets it... but mine have so many leaves. There's definitely stress whenever you remove anything, and it's using resources to close the area. Also, anything you leave behind has the possibility to invite mold to grow, and any wound is an opening for pathogens. It's a delicate balance, easy to over do it once you're on a roll... but yeah the fans in that pic all look nice and healthy, I don't usually remove them until they start to degrade and be less efficient or get chewed on by grasshopper or something. Anything damaged is taking resources to repair and is not functioning as it should to aid photosynthesis, so those are the ones I take off. Just my 2 cents, everyone does shit different. Mine also get a dose of food directly after a defol sesh to help them repair.