Your plants will grow its fastest if you leave every healthy green leaf in place. Each healthy green leaf you remove will reduce your plants ability to photosynthesise, reducing in less energy production and slower growth. Autos need as much energy as possible to be able to grow its largest. Less leaves - less energy produced = slower growth. Plants can not "channel" energy to where man thinks it should go. All energy is used throughout the entire plant, with no energy highways or a brain deciding where energy should go. Shaded "bud sites" are relying on the shade leaves to produce the energy for that "bud site" to grow. Anyway, in 2-5 days, the "bud site" that is shaded will grow from under the shade leaf, using the energy made by that shade leaf, making the removal of the shade leaf pointless. Just remember ; fewer healthy green leaves = less photosynthesis = less energy produced = slower and possibly smaller growth.
Cannabis has evolved to grow her biggest and best flowers and this does not involve getting rid of healthy green leaves.
Less leaves = less energy produced = slower growth. Hope this helps,.... Organoman.