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It's funny how things change. The old grow books I have say to always put the yellow leaves in the container, they contain nutrients which the plants eat. Then spider mites, powdery mildew, soil gnats, and the rest moved in and growers realized that pest numbers concentrate on the dying leaves. Removing all the dead leaves, especially in indoor growing, became the fashion of the time.
Now it's come full circle. People are doing a lot of different stuff. Companion planting and stuffing their old plants back into their soil. If you're growing healthy disease free plants in a dry climate you're adding back into the system, feeding your herd. My climate is too wet, I usually have some fan leaves scattered through my patch but I remove most of them because I don't want a layer of moldy leaves to pile up. As far as Red's grow, 'the proof is in the pudding', you can tell he's kicking ass and knows what he's doing.
Royal Kush x 5G Blue
Strawberry Glue
Notice how all my pictures lately either have a grey foggy or yellow smokey haze in the background. 10 days I believe without direct sunlight although it came close today for a few minutes. Then a weird wet mist blew in, it was raining lightly with the sun burning through it. Mother nature is out of season, the smoke ended summer prematurely. It's gone full blown into autumn and the plants know it. Check out what the smoke and moisture did to my hop vines.
Evil times.
