Harvesting 75% of leaves

[SexyMattTheCat]

If I harvest all of the bigger leaves and leave the majority of smaller ones on, will this adversely effect the plant or cause it to grow faster?

[Arcygenical]

Never harvest more than 20% IMO.

[JDogHerman]

My practice is to leave them alone if your plant has good roots.

Only time I pull leaves is when I'm trying to recover a plant that is under stress.

I think it might make the plant grow faster with more leaves but with extra stress to the total system. Extra stress may cause unhappyness 

[SexyMattTheCat]

My practice is to leave them alone if your plant has good roots.

Only time I pull leaves is when I'm trying to recover a plant that is under stress.

I think it might make the plant grow faster with more leaves but with extra stress to the total system. Extra stress may cause unhappyness 

How often does your plant drop leaves?

[JDogHerman]

i get 2 to 3 large a week

[SexyMattTheCat]

i get 2 to 3 large a week

How tall is your plant? Thanks for the replys

[JDogHerman]

2 feet but it has 6 heads.

BTW this was before it got sick..

[MstryShovel]

if you think of the leaves as batteries and the size of the leaves, the size of the battery, then you should be able to visualize what effect removing 75% of leaves would have on the plant. like arc said, 20% at most, and when removing them i would only remove the ones with proto leaves sprouting out, this encourages those proto leaves to grow.

[Sea Mac]

My practice is to leave them alone if your plant has good roots.

Only time I pull leaves is when I'm trying to recover a plant that is under stress.

I think it might make the plant grow faster with more leaves but with extra stress to the total system. Extra stress may cause unhappyness 

What he said.

My Plants "Throw away" Dozens of leaves a day and I don't even bother to rake them up anymore.

I'd have to remove the webs/bugs/dirt/bird droppings from them if I wanted to smoke or give them away. Too much work!

If you look closely at this photo of "Sally" you'll see she's well draped in dead and dried leaves:


Let your plant throw them away.

[Seeker]

Sea Mac, how come the trunk's on your plants are round???

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[SexyMattTheCat]

Your plants are amazing Seamac.

[JDogHerman]

speaking for seamac I think what you are seeing that is green and round is the pole that keeps those beasts up in the air and stops them from taking over and eating everyone and everything in a five block radius LOL

[Sea Mac]

Sea Mac, how come the trunk's on your plants are round???

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I told Sally you called her "Round".

She forgives you.

I suspect you are looking at the 8 foot by 1 inch "Sturdy Stake" support pole she's tightly tied to. So I went out last night and got you a couple of Awesome close ups of the trunks on a couple of my 15 1/2 month old Plants.


Which is Sally and which is the "Sturdy Stake"?

3/4 inch is a VERY Healthy Stem thickness: and you can bet baby plants cut from the top end of that are massively THICK the moment they are born! BOO-YAA! Even I AM Impressed!   


Sammy is Square enough to cut you ... His Trunk is Fatter than my Finger!

     not round ... any of them! What kind of weirdo do you think I am ... growing round Salvia divinorum! Humph!       (Just ribbing you)

[Sea Mac]

speaking for seamac I think what you are seeing that is green and round is the pole that keeps those beasts up in the air and stops them from taking over and eating everyone and everything in a five block radius LOL

Absolutely Correct!

[Seeker]

ha ha, well i hope i did not hurt her fealings, (or yours) ha ha, thanks for the clearing that up for me, i guess the old eyes are not as good ad they used to be..........


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