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LilRaverBoi · 08-25-2009, 06:54 PM

Yeah, I don't remove leaves until they're completely brown/dried up. From my experience, the very bottom leaf of most plants is slowly turning yellow then to brown. If you chop them off when they're yellow, the next leaf will start dying off sooner. But if you wait till it turns brown/drys up, it extends the life of the next leaf up by at least a short amount of time. If you've got a lot of leaves on the plant it doesn't really matter all that much, but the 'dead and gone' method is what I use.

As for removal, sharp scissors or a knife work great. If you wait till it's brown, just cut off any dried/dead portion where it transitions to living tissue.

08-25-2009, 06:54 PM	#10 (permalink)
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