So this is my first grow and my tent is crazy full with 4 plants. I didnt think they would do this good since it was my first grow. 3 are photo white widows and one (back one) is a bag seed. They look to be doing very good to me. Should I be cutting any of the fan leaves off or just tuck them? Picture below is from today. Thanks for the help in advance!
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As long as ya have a fan running bellow that canopy you should be fine those girls will eat thise leaves up in no time
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One thing i read a lot of is “man i wish i would have left her more leaves” why take what they need to succeed
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Can you post some pics at pot level? What week are they in 
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I 2nd that 
If there is alot of bud sights under them gaint fans on top, I would absolutely strip every fan leaf from the top to expose more bud sites to direct light.
Ideally I would have done the strip right before the flip, but depending on how long they been in flower is important imho, I don’t like to mess with mine to much till the streach is over.
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Ya know at first most are like OMG what is this on my leaf, nutrients deficiency? Bugs?, and it ends up just the plant cannibalize itself
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They are on day 17 of flower. I’ll post a pic when i get home later today and water them. I have 3, 6 inch fans going on them. One at the top of the tent blowing down and one osolating at the canopy, and one blowing at pot level. I have fresh air inlet piped in at the bottom. Should i add one more fan? Thanks again for the help!
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Me, personally, I would defoliate and lollipop at day 21. Once they start flowering and that humidity starts booming, especially in a packed tent like that it can be rough. Defoliating and lollipopping at day 21 wont hurt your yields much or at all, in fact it should help as it’ll give more light penetration to other bud sites! The fan leaves will grow back anyways. And to those who say “it’s how they produce energy from fan leaves!” Thats true, but also the small leaves on the Bud sites produce the same thing, more leaves does not always = higher yield / benefit. I’ve completely stripped down my plants before and the light penetration they’ve received has helped them tremendously.
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So once flowering has started, they will not grow new bud sites or fan leafs, sugar leafs and calyx (aka buds) is what they focus on in flower.
Once flowering stage begins and vegetative state has passed, and they want be any more “veg” growth.
Every part thats green does photosynthesis vary well, that includes the buds and sugar leafs.
Lets say we remove a leaf with 3 square inches of surface area to collect light, if there’s more then that 3 square inches of bud sites now exposed directly to the light, then we gained surface area and thus gain energy input.
While they don’t grow new fan leafs in flower, the fans it has do continue to grow in size, so by removing fans that block buds from light, we are effectively growing more bud and less fan leafs…
If done properly, lollipoping and heavy defoliation can greatly increase yeild, and make trimming much easy once harvested.
This technique is called “Schwazzeing”.
Just Google that word and theres tons of useful info on how to execute it
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Good job those are looking awesome and healthy
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Those are some good looking plants man honestly 
Very good job…
Ultimately its up to you, there really is no wrong way 
and for that fact you will get completely different schools of thought …
But long as you keep doing whatever you’ve bern doing, I’m confident you’ll have a great yeild
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I would strip at least 4" up from the soil just to ilemenate having to deal with all the little popcorn and ficus more energy in to those beautiful tops looks good keep up the air flow what ever you do
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Thanks! I will defintly check that out. I also cleaned up the bottoms tonight it helped airflow out a lot.
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Note to self. Never pack a tent this tight again. They are doing well but they are a pain in the butt to water. I trimmed all the up on the bottoms and the flowers started taking off. I have been able to keep humidity around 50 to 53 at canopy but its been hard. I have 3 temp and humidity sensors in this tent and under the canopy the humidity is sometimes 10 lower than above so i put a fan blowing up to help.
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They look awesome all your hard work will pay off, just think of the money you will save lol
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What strain is she?
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Your guess is as good as mine on this one buddy bag seed but it was fire fire fire
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I have one of them in my tent lol. I hope they are as good as the bags they came out of.