My senior moment part deux - Sanjay Gupta was correct about seniors & medical marijuana.

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6. Respectfully disagree.

I realize many who grow adhere to your advice to remove large fan leaves as plants mature, thinking to increase harvest of bud. In my opinion those leaves are the plant's solar panels and are needed to collect energy which will fuel bud maturation. In fact the plant will consume stored carbohydrates from those large leaves and they will naturally begin to yellow and fall off on their own during the maturation process (unless grower continues to pump the plant with fert, esp. nitrogen). Now I am talking about natural sun (blue sky) and not indoor growing which imposes different considerations.