Stressing plants

[SuperBudBros]

I had a question I'm growing some seed and the fan leaves are starting to get big and blocking the leaves under them, my question was the seeds I'm growing are regular not feminized and my question was if I cut off some of the fans leaves will this stress out the plant and also if the plant does get stressed out does this raise the chances of the plant being a male or is the sex of the plant pre determined and not environmental? Any insight on the subject will be helpful

 

[SuperBudBros]

Bump

 

[944s2]

hey super,,,
need a bit more info mate,,
how old are the plants,,,
variety?,,medium that your using?,,,,
I assume your in veg presently and if so i am wondering why you
need to remove fans now?,,,,,,,
if your over 6 weeks into bloom and a big fan is blocking light to a thick bud then remove it but so early in veg?,,,,,,,,
i would leave alone until much further down the road,,,,
best of luck s2

 

[SuperBudBros]

My plants are like 5 or 6 weeks since popped from seeds, I'm growing in soil FFOF and yes I'm vegging still just wanted to take off some of the fan leaves as they are really fat for the stuff that grow in the nodes could get more light and could grow faster for I can get some clones but was wondering if stressing the plants can make them more likely to come out male here's some pics

 

[SuperBudBros]

You see how those leaves pretty much cover everything under them

 

[Nichead]

I take off leaves in veg. Be good to the plants, just take off what you think is necessary, it'll be fine.

I have a theory that the stress in veg doesn't hermephrodise the way stress in flower does. Just from my experience. I don't defoliate in bud anymore cause of it. Most of my plants come from bagseed, one or two seeds in a ounce kind of thing, and they herme pretty quick if I stress them in flower. Veg, they always recover then flower like normal.

 

[SuperBudBros]

Alright the seeds I got are from Rare Dankness, just haven't sexed them yet.

 

[Nichead]

People lollipop to the extreme and have no problems. Look it up if don't knoiw lollipop, you'll see. Seeds from rare dankness, legit like, you should be fine.

 

[Ganoderma]

Yes you can trim off some leaves. How much you remove depends on you. You could remove a few leaves or you could remove a lot. The more leaves that you end up removing at once, the slower the plant(s) will recover from your trimming of them.