What are people’s thoughts on taking off the larfy buds quite late into flowering? I’ve a Wedding Cake auto that is basically done (almost through 8 weeks of flower)… except for some rather fresh looking flowers growing below the canopy. They won’t mature in time before the chop. In general, do folks remove these so late in the grow, or is that too much bad stress for the plant? And when should, again as a rule of thumb, these be cleaned up? I left them on, FWIW, because I accidentally underfed the plant earlier in the grow, which damaged most mature fan leaves. I found that the new bud sites also had the nicest, freshest leaves, and so I’ve been using them as a means of gauging the success or failure of my feeding corrections.
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I render my larf/trim into oil so it’s not wasted.
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In my last (first) grow, I chucked the larf (only the really larfy stuff, if I’m honest) along with trimmed sugar leaves into a tray and de-carbed. Then I use that to make tea with coconut oil. The result is lovely, a real slow burner. Is that kind of the same principle? Render into oil just means to soak it in oil over super low heat for a long old while?
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I would leave them if its almost done flowering everyone has a different use for them I make edibles with them sometimes and bubble hash with them other times i just harvested 110 grams of strawberry cough not including the larfy underdeveloped buds thise im just throwing in for bubble hash this time
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Plant material is soaked in 190 proof ethanol, then distilled to recover the alcohol. The result is a concentrated oil. Depending on how you wash the plant material you can extract for edibles or for dabs. Look at ‘Source Turbo’.
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I remove all of the lower growth and potential bud sites before flipping. No larf to remove. As new buds try to form down low, I remove them.
Unlike most folks, I don’t remove the lower leaves, just new branch growth. 
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Agreed. Getting them out early in attempt to keep plant focused on tops makes sense, but late in grow is too late for this.
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