Should I defoliate? Autoflower week 7 (3/4 week of flowering)

the plant will get stressed and stress in flowering in most cases is not good. I normally defoliate or do other techniques while is in vegetative or the first 2 weeks of flowers.

There is no need to defoliate at all, if your plant would not need those leaves, it would not grow them in the first place! Just remember, - Maximum amount of healthy green leaves = maximum energy productionn = maximum growth. It really is that simple! Defoliating mid flower is really unwarranted, this is precisely when your plant needs maximum energy to grow the flowers. Defoliation is not a necessary step when growing cannabis, it is hardly beneficial, except maybe in extreme over crowding. Try and only ever remove yellow leaves, for by the time they are yellow, they have served their purpose. The older leaves also act as "store houses" of pre-made vital growth elements (carbs, sugars, amino acids etc) that your plant will draw upon during flowering, as it is far more efficient to do so, rather than grow flowers and make those vital growth elements from new, at the same time. This is also the reason for the so called "fade" which occurs late flowering. So, not only does defoliation reduce your plants capacity to make energy, it also robs her of this vital resource of pre-made growth elements she has so cleverly stored in her older leaves for use precisely now, during the flowering phase. Therefore, I would urge you to seriously consider not doing any unnecessary defoliation of the large, healthy, energy making leaves. Removing perfectly healthy, green, energy producing leaves and forcing your plant to grow new healthy, green, energy producing leaves seems like a waste of energy, energy that could be going into growing flowers, and rather pointless. Hope this helps, Organoman.

About week 2ish of flowering it is a good practice to clean up the underside so plant focuses it's energy in forming denser colas. Basically cutting pop corn buds sites away. As for now you may want to remove a few to let light get deeper in center of plant. I Would be selective, don't wanna take too much she won't grow new ones at this point. The leaves are her way to make energy to grow. Good luck and looking good🌱

Hey buddy, normally I'd say no. But it won't hurt any if you take the fan leafs covering the lower bud sites. Leave all the rest like the sugar leafs and even saying that I can only see a couple fan leafs that will help if they are taken. Maybe if you can leaf tuck and allow light to reach the lower 2/4 sites I can possibly see. Very nice grow man. 3/4 so of flowering???what's that mean you are only giving 28 days of flowering. An auto or any plan even photos need 45-65 days of flowering pal. You count down the days once stigma has starts, (white hairs, pistils) happy growing good luck.