Local Blue Dream

the big ass leaves feed your Plant... i wont take any leave away now, because she needs it. You can top her ;to open the canopy. And later in week 2 of flower you can take away blocking leaves.
Iam no frind of defoiliation is classic way. iam a big friend of taking away some disturbing leaves, cleaning up the bottom area of the Plant
This big leaves feed her and she will get stunted if you take away those. later if shes bigger she dont have that big need to keep them-
you can look into my diary " organic bananas" that plant developed biiig leaves too,,, and i let her doing it... other growers took them away,,, and the plant had to work for 10 days to regrow another nutrientleave

You have plenty of light getting into your girls, wait until they have many leaves before removing the fan leaves. Once you switch to 12 12 then the 2 weeks of stretch, then remove your big sun blocking leaves. Cheers

i would say leave her be, you have plenty of room for light penetration. so if i was you i would bend down the main cola so the side branches and lower branches get as big as the main branch or cola area. this way there is little to no stress to the plant and you get a nice harvest as well. now you can take just a few of the bigger leaves off this week and just a few off next week, but if you take too much off you may loose out on a harvest. i say no but in the end it is up to you

If you're gonna do it, then do it within the first, and no later than the second week after going 12/12.

Personally, looking at your plant, I wouldn't defoliate it. It looks fine with plenty of room for light to reach lower parts. ´
- Maybe take a couple of the biggest leaves if you absolutely have to, but a defoliation might just end up hurting your end result if you aren't careful with how you go about it.