Fan leaves

You don’t need to defoliate that plant. When you can see through your plant from the top and bottom it’s not blocking light.

 

Hi.
They are fueling a lot of the growth as well as acting as nutrient sinks.
Best thing is to learn to tuck or tie them into a position that doesn't get in the way of the undergrowth.
Then when they start yellowing and drooping ,they're used up and can be trimmed.

Are you going for the most mass with your top main cola?
If not you can train that one down so the lower colas can gain strength and mass.
Looks like you're about 2 weeks into flower so you have multiple weeks to get those lower buds much fatter and taller.

Is that a sativa dominant strain?

 

Yeah, you can tie it over sideways. It'll give the others a chance to catch up a bit. Bend it carefully and tie it as you don't want to stress it too much this far along. It will try growing upwards again.
I've trained a plant completely horizontal just by continually keeping the main cola (apex meristem) going sideways with ties.
MJ is easily trained and can end up looking pretty funky but you'll decrease final grow height, increase
bushy-ness(sp.?) and it will still taste just the same but with more prime colas.

 

You should definitely bend this girl over as recommended above. You can also pinch the stem and bend over (supercrop).

 

I agree, it looks like you could go up two nodes and squeeze the stem until you get it to lay sideways and put a net over her. Looks like it's still early enough to be done.

 

Defoliation is a controversial topic. I have tried it about every way I can think of or have seen. In the end, I have settled on leaving the fans for the most part. If I take a few out because a plant is bushy, I tend to remove the large fans in the middle of the canopy that are attached to the main stem. The upper fans are getting the most light and doing a lot of heavy lifting. The lower ones are shading nothing and act as great nutrient sinks. To keep them from getting too bushy, I will pinch lower shoots and focus the growth to the tops.

All that said, defoliation is not as big a deal imo as it is sometimes made out to be. It won't hurt your plants in my experience. I have stripped plants of all their fans twice during flowering and they can definitely take it and it will generally produce some nice nuggets. I have had one strain (sweet zk) that produced way more frost when you sheared off most of her big fans. I have also found a few strains that don't love it. I have settled on pinching shoots and growing plants that don't shade their bud sites so I don't have to cut many leaves at all and can tuck most that are in the way. If I have to cut leaves, are usually do it gradually, like five or six a day until I get it where I want it. Don't be afraid to experiment.

I don't think that girl needs any defoliation and taking the opportunity to learn some training is a great idea. Especially until you can get your hands on some lighting with better penetration, you want to get that lady as flat as possible to get as much of her exposed to useful light. Good luck dude. Cheers

 

When you take the main stem and roll it very firmly between your index and thumb, you'll feel it start to loosen up then get squishy inside.
It'll naturally want to fall over, but you can support it at the angle you want.
A fat knuckle will form where you supercropped it but that's all good, its healing.
If the outer skin breaks, get some wide tape and bandaid her up.