Yellowing leaves & trimming
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Hey @Tarek N how are you doing?
If a leaf on one of my girls is fading or blocking a bud site I just leave it.
If you have an issue with a leaf and you remove it I find the issue just spreads .
If you remove it the issue just travels to the next leaf or branch. So I don't touch it.
I find if I let my girls mature any buds not in direct light still fill and mature as well. So I don't fuss or pick at them. Hope that helps.
Bill
Yellowing fan leaves is natural process called Senescence.
Fan leaves have a different life cycle than the plant. They store energy for the plant to use later in life for seed/flower production. Leaving the leaf there the plant will Translocate stored nutrients from the fan leaf to the plant.
As the senescence process is going on, the chlorophyll is one of the first nutrients to be translocated. Chlorophyll is an energy source for the plant - it what gives the leaf its green color. Some chlorophyll gets stored in the fan leaves for later uptake as the leaf gets older.
This is what you see when the leaves turn yellow and its a good thing.
Fan leaves have a different life cycle than the plant. They store energy for the plant to use later in life for seed/flower production. Leaving the leaf there the plant will Translocate stored nutrients from the fan leaf to the plant.
As the senescence process is going on, the chlorophyll is one of the first nutrients to be translocated. Chlorophyll is an energy source for the plant - it what gives the leaf its green color. Some chlorophyll gets stored in the fan leaves for later uptake as the leaf gets older.
This is what you see when the leaves turn yellow and its a good thing.
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