10 growers should give you the same advise considering the shape of your plant : DO NOT DEFOLIATE ! Defoliation is suposed to be a light repartition method so when a leaf is blocking the light to a lower bud site you can defoliate to provide more light to that bud site but your plant is growing in a way that doesn't require to remove a leaf to provide more light as you plant have an " open " shape , with little budsites everywhere and tight leaves sets so like I first said growers should tell you the same : DO NOT DEFOLIATE !