This is where we need to take our lessons from imo… Provide light pen or remove leaves that are not adjacent to flower sites. Some might disagree and I love to hear their point of wiew.
Providing a quality basin for optimal light absorbtion is the hallmark of fruit defoliation be it chemical or physical in apples, apricots, cherry u name it. .
The leaves actually at one point of growth start to provide just for them selves due to their enormous size and not for the branch attached adjacent as they do until critical mass is reached.
Meaning the big leaf is starting to parasitise the rest of the branch and flower sites, as not providing and sending carbohydrates down the stream to other parts wich might be more favorable for us, but instead keeping all the photosynthetic products for its selfish needs…
Outdoor with massive rootsystems and nutes and space this might occur later than indoor…
Anyway derailing as usual…
Such a plant might not need defoliation as the leaf morphology might just require a clip of a brach or two and ur done… Imagine the work hours saved on a hectar of these ladies!!!