Do I, or don't I?

Hello If it was my plant I would defoliate. You've got some pretty big leaves blocking things up. One way to approach it is do a small defoliation now, maybe less than 20%, the plant will do it's flowering boost and fill in most of what you've removed, and then you can do an additional mild defoliation at about day 21. I'm always for defoliating the bottoms, I've typically always seen positive results from doing that.👍