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Fan leaves produce mad amounts of carbs; they are the sugar factories of the cannabis plant. Thinning your plant may produce a slightly larger yield, but the buds will not fully realize their potential when it comes to flavor and potency. Personally, I trim up the bottom 3rd or so of my plants, and then I only remove the fan leaves that the plant "self-prunes". To each his own. Here's a fair rep of my plant structure and yield; this is a lucky cross I threw together in the early 90's that is still one of the nicest strains I've seen in CO...
Rocky Mountain Dream
The yellowing happened during the flush. I cut back on everything except humic/fulvic during the first 7 days of flush. I only use organic nutrients, so there's really nothing to flush except excess phosphorous, which will make your dried buds burn like a sparkler, lol. If my plants do not cannibalize their fans leaves during the flush, I push 'em another couple weeks until they do. When temps are cooler, I get a rainbow of color instead of just shades of yellow... :) Peace
Keep us posted with the results, man. That sounds like a great experiment. That may be one way to speed up the 2 week flushing process, also. I use super soil and supplement with Age Old Organics. The Bloom formula is 5-10-5; I also believe most cannabis strains are flowered with Nitrogen deficiencies that limit quality and yield. But I also run a couple sativas that seem to hate Nitrogen and start to claw at the least bit of excess, so I've had to get creative to keep it out of the mix. I just made a batch of super soil specifically for those sativas; with a minimal amount of nitrogen amendments (just a few worm castings). I'm eager to try it on those strains, once it cooks for a few more weeks.
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