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I routinely defoliate my lower Fan Leaves and have not found that it hurts the plant. I normally start low and slowly remove ones that are blocking the light to bud sites. Other's that are doing SCROG do loly poppinng (remove all the leaves below the Scrog).
Back in the 70's when I was growing outside I would strip almost all of the fan leaves during the grow cycle to have the plant put all it's energy into the flowers. I use to grow some dynamite weed.
How often would you cut them? I'm thinking about removing the majority of them now because I feel like most of the energy is going towards the leaves and not the buds. I was scared because I don't want to hurt the plant so late in the cycle