Don't remove any leaves, they are making the energy your plant needs to grow her flowers.
Less leaves = less energy being made = less growth.
The lower older leaves going yellow is quite normal and not a big issue, but adding a drop of grow nutrients into your feed won't hurt.
The reason they go yellow is that the plant takes "pre-made" elements like carbs, sugars, amino acids etc from the older leaves to be used for flower growing as this is more efficient than growing flowers AND making new carbs, sugars, amino acids etc at the same time - another good reason not to remove eaves unless they are completely yellow. Without those older leaves your plant has to divide its energy between flower growing and sugar/carb/amino acid making, resulting in potentially smalller flowers. With the ready made store of those elements available in the remaining older leaves, she can use all of her energy for flower growth.....