Trimming Leaves for Flowering?

This is my autoflower- Snowryder. Its at about 40 days give or take. Now that its like 2/3 weeks from finish, I'm wondering if it will hurt my end yield if I trim these sides leaves.

The picture's show the plant as usual, and then the other pictures are of where I was to cut.

Any ideas if this is a bad idea or a good one?

Them leaves are the source of energy for your plant. Cut them and your buds could be smaller than if you left them on especially with your plant being an auto and so small. Also if you cut them it will cause your sugar leaves to grow larger which will make your bud more leafy. I would keep them, if they get in the way of a flowering top you can always tuck them down away from the tops they are covering.

them lower yellow ones id get rid off,,the plant will put more effort into r epairing them than growing bud,,fan leaves are fine to trim,,u must hav e sen pnats on journals with hardeley any leave,
its a debated topic trimming so ur gunna get sum saying yes sum saying no depends on your own personal prefs

I cut off any dead or yellowing parts of the leaves, but I try to leave as much green leaf as possible. It makes the plant look prettier and its easier to spot new damage. It won't stunt the plant very much unless you go over board and start removing leaves that are perfectly healthy.

ive learned fromersonal expierence to never cut your leaves unless, all the nutes are sucked out of them this being them being brown and crusty then its okay