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Hello all,
I have quite an interesting question that although intended just to help a couple of my plants could turn out to be quite interesting! Well, here it goes:
About three weeks ago, I replaced the lights on my growchamber. But before that, the light the past couple of weeks was steadily decreasing. Tendrils even refused to drop!
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That is now taken care of, but during the time, my N. x 'Judith Finn' and N. maxima grew a couple of etiolated leaves.
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The plants did't actually elongate, but the leaves are long and wavy. They are now 2-3 leaves down the stem, each plant with some new good healthy leaves above those two. These mega-sized leaves are taking up a lot of space, and I was wondering if it would be ok sometime in the next couple of weeks to trim these leaves off, even before they brown. I would of course allow the plant to grow a little more. The tendrils on the leaves refuse to drop, so it isn't wasting a pitcher. As much nerve as it takes to cut perfectly good, green leaves, I would feel better knowing that this isn't hurting/maybe helping the plants. I am really asking if there is any effect of a plant's growth point from (active) leaves farther down. I doubt that there is a really, really bad one, because they naturally loose leaves at the bottom of the rosette, but there are still healthy leaves beneath these.

Is this a waste of time or interesting scientific discussion? We shall see!
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Ciao!
 
Well, they are still doing photosynthetic operations for the plant, giving it glucose and energy. It's really up to you I should say. If the plants are healthy and established then I say do what you want. I personally (if I was in the situation) would trim the leaves 1/2 way back like as you would do on a cutting, this way you're not dessimating the leaf surface and your getting more room like you wished to.
 
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