New Grower Pulling Sucker Leaves??

[PoopsMcDoogle]

I've had good results pulling suckers on photoperiod strains. What about autos? It gets more light penetration and seems like the plant would be happy to get those nutes in the other leaves and bud.

 

[Mr Piggy]

Define sucker leaf, never heard that term. Generally with autos it's a good idea to leave them alone. They don't have recovery time like photos so every little bit of stress stunts them. Look up fan leaf tucking.

 

[agito]

photos don't even respond well to it either so no there are sugar reserves in leafs they can use
Only exception is removing lower growth before switching to flower just for better air circulation

 

[PoopsMcDoogle]

Define sucker leaf, never heard that term. Generally with autos it's a good idea to leave them alone. They don't have recovery time like photos so every little bit of stress stunts them. Look up fan leaf tucking.

I have been told that large fan leaves suck up a lot of nutrients that could be used by the plant elsewhere. Therefore, sucker leaves. An old head term I've heard many a time from these ol' hillbillies herere where I live. A lot of them pick them to smoke early too. I know they grow them for a reason an wouldn't if not needed. I use the tucking technique but was just curious about a lil bonzai action. Doesn't seem like it would stress them to me but idk jack really. Just my own logic a lot of times.

 

[Mr Piggy]

Woahkay, hold on there. Fan leaves are an integral part of your plant and removing them will hurt your grow, not help it. Fan leaves store the converted nutrients your plant needs and also are the main photosynthetic surface on your plant. Photosynthesis is how your plant makes energy, remove them and you stunt this process. I'm afraid your logic and hillbillies are way off base. When you see pictures of plants with no fan leaves it's because they were just clipped off for the picture. Also, just to be clear bonsai is when the roots are clipped to retard growth, pruning is when you remove material from the top. Leave those leaves on for both photos and autos. As agito said the only time to strip plants is when you're growing photos inside and all you take is from the understory, not from up top.

 

[Epic Genetics]

tell the hillbillies they are wrong

a sucker leaf does not become a sucker untill it starts dieing and begins sucking up every bit it can trying to survive

even completely dead leaves attached to a plant are suckers

and this is with any plant , not just cannabis

peace

 

[agito]

is that not the plant sucking the sugar/nutrient from the leaf to put it into the rest of the plant where it needs it
like it taking mg from the lower growth thus the yellowing you get on old growth

 

[Mr Piggy]

a sucker leaf does not become a sucker untill it starts dieing and begins sucking up every bit it can trying to survive

even completely dead leaves attached to a plant are suckers

and this is with any plant , not just cannabis

peace

You have that completely backwards. If the leaf was pulling nutes out of the plant then it wouldn't be dying back, and certainly not before the rest of the plant. What's going on is quite the opposite, the plants are pulling all the energy out of the leaves to give one last push to the bud, where the seed production would be if you weren't growing sensi. A dead leaf attached to a plant is just that, a dead leaf. There's no in or out going on in that thing and if you're a good grower you remove completely dead leaves to prevent mold. I'll also gladly counter those hillbillies or any other person who spreads bad info. Even my hillbilly family admit I know more about growing than them

 

[Epic Genetics]

You have that completely backwards. If the leaf was pulling nutes out of the plant then it wouldn't be dying back, and certainly not before the rest of the plant. What's going on is quite the opposite, the plants are pulling all the energy out of the leaves to give one last push to the bud, where the seed production would be if you weren't growing sensi. A dead leaf attached to a plant is just that, a dead leaf. There's no in or out going on in that thing and if you're a good grower you remove completely dead leaves to prevent mold. I'll also gladly counter those hillbillies or any other person who spreads bad info. Even my hillbilly family admit I know more about growing than them

no i do not have it backwards , a dieing leaf IS a sucker leaf , that is with ANY plant as well as trees

a dieing leaf will try its best to survive , and even a dead leaf still attached to a plant is a sucker

i am NOT talking about near the end of the plants life , i am talking about when the plant and its leaves should still be healthy

i saw a post today where you bitched someone out for constantly giving bad info ,,,,

id say you yourself should do more reading and less typing

as for growing knowledge , im pushing 35 years growing cannabis and my mother has been a manager at a huge greenhouse complex longer then that

 

[Mr Piggy]

I don't know what to tell you other than you're wrong, and I don't believe big claims on anonymous internet sites.