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You're obviously in a rather unique situation here to which those defoliation discussions hardly apply. The controversy is largely about removing a leaf from one plant to allow for more light on the same plant. If you can however remove one large flap to completely unshade nearly an entire plant next to it... As I mentioned in some of them, removing some leaves can improve situations that typically should have been avoided in the first place, and then I'm usually referring to situations with 'less' plants on the same space.
Imo, unless you are worried about PM (condensation from overlapping/touching leaves) or bud rot (from high humidity) later on, I would keep it to a minimum. Cut off only the middle finger of the larger ones. Well, the dilemma there is that pm thrives on damaged plants, so wounding them all a little bit isn't a good idea either. Good luck whatever you decide to do.
Imo, unless you are worried about PM (condensation from overlapping/touching leaves) or bud rot (from high humidity) later on, I would keep it to a minimum. Cut off only the middle finger of the larger ones. Well, the dilemma there is that pm thrives on damaged plants, so wounding them all a little bit isn't a good idea either. Good luck whatever you decide to do.
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