Saftly removing canopy leaves?>

[midgethorse]

I been in 12/12 a month now, give or take.
One of my plants grew very dense. The leaves are very close together more on the bottom of the plant, and above that there are huge canopy leaves preventing the bottom to get light.
Anyway the strain grows straight up unlike my others that I have done some lst.
Due to space restrictions, I can't really bend the plant much.
So my question,
Can I remove some of these leaves? Or just cut the fan leaves.
If its cool to cut em off , where is the best place to cut them.
I know this is some amature stuff but icmag has not let me down yet. I just think im going to miss out on buds if I dont do some pruning.
Sorry about my spelling guys.

Thanks in advance!
Midgethorse.

 

[funkervogt]

If I can't train them, I'll trim them. That's my

 

[pearlemae]

You can trim the hell out of them. The more light to the center of the plant the better. Plus it means more light on the bud which equals bigger buds, so trim baby trim.

 

[midgethorse]

By trim you mean cut the leaf off at the stem or just cut the fans smaller?
Sorry guys,
Midgethorse.

 

[Daniels88]

you definately want to trim the older huge leaves that have been around for a while. It may sound assbackwards but the big old leaves are somewhat keeping the lower nodes from developing. Trim all the way to the bottom of the stem my friend. If you don't cut the complete whole stem it will take longer for that branch to heal and the stem will crumble off eventually

 

[mean mr.mustard]

Just trust yourself.. you already answered your own question.

 

[ogkushkilla]

it is important to have fan leaves but it is more important in my opinion to have adequate like to bud sites along the center. it would be beneficial for you to supercrop and open the plant up and bit as well as trim away some fan leaves. when trimming a leaf cut as close to the bud site as possible without harming the site. is would also be helpful for you to lollipop your plant and trim away the bottom half of the plant including bud sites, because this area dose no receive enough light to produce anything worth your time. this will focus energy to the main colas as well as top bud sites, which equals more yield.

 

[1quixotix]

Look for the defoliation sticky in the hydro forum.

 

[midgethorse]

Hey thanks everyone for taking your time to help me out. And for the defoliation sticky .
Stay safe everyone.
MidgetHorse