Should You Remove Fan Leaves During Flowering?

Hit 👍 LIKE and ✅ Subscribe For More Garden Updates! Thank you! ⇨ Main Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/cannabisgarden?sub_confirmation=1 ⇨ 2nd Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLrVeIJm-rfAOXUt5OYpq6Q?sub_confirmation=1 Follow me on: ⇨ Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/_cannabisgarden_/ ⇨Twitter | https://twitter.com/_CannabisGarden 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 ---------------------- 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