Lets say you have a plant that for some reason starts dropping leaves like crazy after switching to 12/12, and has no fan leaves left except for the top ones a week into flowering, as well as dropping many of the other larger leaves already...now at about 3 weeks flowering... and lots of buds forming on the other plants, but this one is way behind...
Will I eventually get decent buds from this plant, or am I better off killing it now and letting the others get more light?
Can a plant with few leaves grow nice buds?
Re: Can a plant with few leaves grow nice buds?
If the buds and surrounding foliage are still growing, I would. 
My thought - if the plant doesn't fully develop, the material (specifically trichomes) could be used in a variety of ways such as hash, butter, etc...
I would suggest looking at some pics of SOG's/SCROG's. One thing that should stand out is the lack of any fan leaves below a certain height. The difference between your situation and this example is that your plant leaves are "dropping" whereas in SOG's/SCROG's, the leaves are removed with intent.
Check out the following...
http://www.weedfarmer.com/cannabis/tables_guide.php
http://weedfarmer.com/cannabis/
Happy farming...
My thought - if the plant doesn't fully develop, the material (specifically trichomes) could be used in a variety of ways such as hash, butter, etc...
I would suggest looking at some pics of SOG's/SCROG's. One thing that should stand out is the lack of any fan leaves below a certain height. The difference between your situation and this example is that your plant leaves are "dropping" whereas in SOG's/SCROG's, the leaves are removed with intent.
Check out the following...
http://www.weedfarmer.com/cannabis/tables_guide.php
http://weedfarmer.com/cannabis/
Happy farming...