The leaves are very important in diagnosing deficiencies and diseases in the plant. Many argue that trimming leaves causes the plant to focus more on bud growth, but it's quite the contrary.. Every bit of the light, water, co2, and minerals the plant can convert into energy and biomass is crucial to bud growth. Nutrients are drawn to your plant by water evaporating and being converted to sugars in the leaves. While water dissipates from the leaves' surface water and water soluble minerals move on from the medium through the roots (bulk flow). Thus the more leaf, the more water /nutrient movement, the more biomass generation from the plant.
Tucking leaves to allow light to the bud sites is good, but absolutely avoid removing any green leaves.