• schmidtster@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      They are on flowering day 32, I don’t think the amount of foliage is presenting any sort of issue for mildew (famous last words I know) I prefer to only remove leaves if they are dying or for other specific reasons.

      The plant spends energy storing energy in the leaves, indiscriminately removing them is only hurting yield, I know there’s people out there who claim otherwise, but the science isn’t there.

      For what it’s worth, once a leaf is 21 days old it’s done taking energy from the plant, cutting it off only removes all that energy it spent making it. And now it can’t tap into that reserve nor use it for photosynthesis.

      Now on the other hand, if you have one of those lights you hang a few inches from the plant, you’re not going to get any meaningful penetration due to the inverse square law. So leaving a bunch of lower foliage can be detrimental to having dense buds, but yield will be the same.

      It’s not such a simple situation as you can see.