New Grower Cut or Tuck ?

[Liontamer]

Hi Folks
I am on my first auto grow, I have 4 Sweet Seeds, Dark Devils, excellent plants and now in full flower and herein lies my query, normally at this time on a photo strain I would start removing shade leaves daily to get more light on the buds.
However from bits of information I have gleaned from this forum I get the impression removing shade leaves from an auto could have bad effects on the plant, possibly shocking them into stopping growing or producing flowers.
Is this a fact or just a possibility ?
Does anyone routinely remove shade leaves ?
I would really appreciate any advice on this, I really want to get rid of more leaves to get that SonT blazing on my thick sticky yummy buds.
Cheers guys & gals.
D'oh ! Also meant to say, at present I am tucking as many leaves away as I can but its just not enough, hence my need to cut them off instead of tucking them.

 

[namvet25]

I am about ready to chop my DD.I also tuck leaves to expose the buds but when tucking won,t work I remove any large leaves that are covering the buds.I just don't doit all at once and do a few every day so not to shock the plant. This has worked for me on several grows.

 

[Epic Genetics]

im not aware of any leaves on cannabis being named shade leaves

but if you infact mean a leaf that causes shade i wouldnt worry , 85% of the light hitting a leaf goes through it , we just dont see it because it is not "visable" light to humans

meaning the plant does not see the ammount of shade we see , not even close

keep your leaves , tuck if anything

peace :Cool:

 

[namvet25]

:Shade leaves are the single smaller leaves that grow out of the colas. :smokebuds:

 

[Epic Genetics]

:Shade leaves are the single smaller leaves that grow out of the colas. :smokebuds:

sugar leaves ?

 

[Liontamer]

A colloquialism perhaps ? I have always known them as shade leaves, sugar leaves/shade leaves.
Tomatoe/tomato.
Namvet 25, thanks buddy, thats the news I was wanting to hear, with photo strains I only removed maybe a half dozen at most in a day so I will do the same thing here.
Thanks for your help guys.