Defoliating Photos

Hey Growers. When do you defoliate photos? When at the end of flower?Planning to have to do a hefty defoliation and some lollipopping too and wondering when you more experienced growers do. Thx

Start of flower or a week before or both

Man you're going to get every f****** answer in the world! And when it comes to defoliating with me everybody always says I'm wrong! So just expect a lot of answers. Bottom line is be soft on your plant don't butcher it if you were the plant what would you like to bathe in the Sun move the leaves out of the way if you can first and if not cut them and listen to The Forum scream! LOL. I must be growing right. You and I need to communicate, sounds like we are about at the same spot in our growing expertise and our thinking. Working on my fifth or 6th study. But I'll always be a newbie. The way I figure every time I drop a seed, it's new right? They're all different cultivars and every day new cells are formed therefore it never gets old. New everyday. Therefore new experience and technique everyday. That keeps me a newbie, forever. Okay back to your post I'm sorry. By the time my plant is a couple weeks in flower, I usually have very few fan leaves left. I take a lot of leaves about 2 weeks in flour. I make your tough decisions and remove most everything is going to come off at this point. Sometimes it's full branches, it's hard. This is what I get when I do it my way. And some say I'm all wrong. But when my studies turn out like this. I'll always take the blame. And yes I do take advice or else I wouldn't have made it this far. It's frustrating sometimes when people think their advice and knowledge is the only way to do it and you look at their post in their stuff doesn't look half as good as yours, but they're right. Anyway you got to love them all. Here's before and after picture. The two weeks into flower defoliate.