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Hick said:the proof is in the pudding...http://www.marijuanapassion.com/forum/showthread.php?t=38984
"lolipopping" ....removing lower branches to allow more growth be directed to the tops, where the light is most beneficial, and removing the plants ability to photosynthesise by removing the fan leaves, also where light is most beneficial, are far far different methods and will result in different outcomes.
Removing upper fan leaves that are recieving full light is NOT going to benefit the plant, not in any manner. Not only speaking from a couple of decades of experience, but from a common sense botanical point of view.
on a side note...during the last phases of flower when Nitrogen is depleted, the lower fan leaves fall off and work there way up. So by cutting the plants top ones you are in a sense meeting the near death phase 1/2 way and spreading up the process without allowing the full term of flower.
i don't need any pictures of it to KNOW trimming all the fan leaves off is a bad idea. Thinning them if you have an excessive bushy plant and need better light penetration and air flow to avoid bud rot..but not to cut all of them off. Mom nature put those leaves there for a purpose to gain Energy from the light.
I've abused plants left and right, cut em, trimmed em, tied em, topped em, no veg, long veg, rootbound, bonsai, you name it i did it to know what this plant was capable of...trimming off fan leaves may give the "appearance" of fatter buds..well when you trim off those fan leaves of course the buds look fatter you took away proportion. Which will trick the human eye.
Its just plain science man....Google "biology of plants" that will shed some definitive proof on what your doing is wrong.