No unless you have no interest in finishing an auto in the times the breeder says if you dont care about the times then yes you can lst though it will add weeks on top of your final harvest date. To train a plant properly takes a very long time probably about 12 weeks of veg to get a nice structured plants thats going to yield well you simply dont have that much time with an auto so any stress you put on it is going to slow it down dramatically if you combine that with furious defoliation you are walking a very thin line of stress hermying but thats just my opinion yes it is possible to train autos but usually only the very skilled growers can do it successfully most just end up with a tiny yield cause the plant is working so hard to replace stuff thats been cut off rather than growing bud like it should be best rule of thumb with autos is just feed them and watch them go and thats it lol best of luck bro 👊