Removing fan leaves in 4th - 5th week of flower

[Secret11]

Will removing like 1 or 2 leaves per plant per day cause any stress to my plant that could reduce yields since the flowers are growing the most right now?

I am also supplementing ormus and sometimes b vitamins these are both anti stressors i think, also adequate pk 13/14 and flowering complex.

 

[elduderito]

I've read several people state they don't defoliate past day ~21 -- however I think there are some exceptions where it is acceptable, for example: increase airflow, allow light to lower shaded tops...

What are you trying to achieve through defoliation at this point? which fan leaves do you want to remove ? how many days ? pictures would help...

 

[Secret11]

i think it's been like 29 days since she started flowering, i'm trying to achieve the most light to all the bud sites, i can post photo tomorrow, they're sleeping right now.

 

[Madmax]

This is more common when growing under leds as they have more white in there fixtures..you could checkout some of sshz's grows on here running gavita 1700e . Very Well detailed .theres a few podcasts from rasta jeff on the subject and some others....its important that your plants are heathy before pruning..

 

[Secret11]

Ok, here's photos and video and i have one more question

if i cut fan leaves like this, it should cause less stress to the plants, right?

I also have this white SMD led light that i bough for myself but it's super bright so i use it now to get the bottom most light. It's got like 20 smd led chips in there.

 

[SofaKingHigh]

You could probably get away with taking one or two a day but you wanna be carful not to stress to much and remember your not gonna grow a ton of leaves back so just take the large fan leaves that are overlapping or covering bud sites. Next time just plan to remove fan leaves right after 2 week stretch right after flip.