When to Defoliate

Hello My friend, Now your plants look amazing very healthy nice dark green leaves and light preflowering. I would say no. Cannabis plants have evolved over thousands of years to produce their biggest fattest buds in order to attract male pollen and reproduce. if she would benefit from having her fans removed she would of evolved to do so. Each healthy leaf you remove is taking all that surface area off the plant which would of used it to convert the light into energy to make your buds biggers. Now with auto flower strains defoliation is not advised because they already have a predetermined life cycle. If you stress them you may end up adding 2 or 3 weeks on to the ending flower stage. Some people top and lollipop autos and defoliate at all stages Its my opinion that you should defantly not defoliate in the first 2 or 3 weeks of the flower cycle the plant is already going through a very dramatic change. adding even more stress onto her at this point could inhibet her flower growth and lead to abnormal flowers or hermies in bad cases. Though I would never advise you not to do anything you do what you want bro its your plant :) Wishing you the best of luck for the rest of cycle :)