Try posting some clear, sharp, close up photos. Jerky video is next to useless for any clear answers to be given. To me it looks like a male plant but hard to tell. Need some clear, close up pics.
Each healthy green leaf you remove will reduce your plants capacity to produce energy, resulting in slower and smaller growth. Try only removing yellow leaves, for by the time they are yellow, they have served their purpose. I personally detest any defoliation. Do people really think they know better than a plant that has evolved over Millenia to be as efficient and perfect as it can be? Part of this evolution does not include getting rid of healthy green leaves. Plants can not and will not "channel" energy, all energy produced is used over the entire plant. Plants do not have brains or energy highways with little policemen directing energy flow to the flowers or anywhere else. Let your plant do what it has been doing for 100s of 1000s of years and you will get the best flowers she can produce. Those leaves you remove to expose "bud sites" are the energy power station for that "bud site". No leaf means energy will be robbed from somewhere else, adversely effecting the entire plant, as there is only so much energy to go around. Fewer healthy green leaves = less energy produced = smaller and slower growth. It's that simple folks!
Sorry, I feel better now that I have had my daily rant against needless leaf removal! Hope this helps in some way.
Add some clear pics and I will try an answer your question more definitively. Thanks. Organoman.