Hi there! Having grown these for my last diary, I would recommend you to defoliate more (I regret not doing it more on my plants). They are beautiful and bushy, so there is enough green matter. Just don't strip the completely. That which you shouldn't do in my humble opinion is taking off the lower leaves cause they tell you when you have NPKMg deficiencies and you can find a remedy earlier. Take off the leaves that hide potential bud spots only. Also you can trim all the lower smaller branches after defoliation IF they still don't receive light. They will become nothing else but popcorn buds otherwise. :) Hope this helped you.
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