To leaf or not to leaf.

I did just answer this but it got removed some how. No she needs all her fans for energy if you want her to be healthy and grow faster its best not to defoliate. Defoliation is a LST training tecnique that is used in many stages of the cannabis life cycle and in many other methods of HST like mainlining for instance but it is only really used seriously when in late flower when large fan leaves are covering bud sites stopping them get light. Now if you have good air flow which i bet you do and the tips of the leaves are moving there is no need to defoliate for better air you already have 1m per min passing through which is more than enough. now with auto flowers they have a predetermined amount of energy to grow if you stress this and cause and damage her she will need to repair taking time off her predetermind life cycle which will result in you waiting longer to harvest. in laymens she needs every fan she has to create energy to grow removing a healthy leaf is taking away that energy. Also if you have just fimmed her she will need time to recover from that I would let her go a few more days before chopping her again if you must. but hey this is your plant pal do what you want lol. most people dont train autoflowers cause well they just dont grow the same way as a photo period. thats why alot of growers dont use them and are weary of them lol