Nah i never cut fan leaves off. I mean if you're too late into flower then there isn't much you can do, or if its ridiculously way over crowded you cant do much either - but in his case, based on the pics, they aren't going to overcrowd especially after another week of veg and if they did i'd fix it by heavy pruning. The way i do it now is i have this canopy, and there are probably about 10-15 colas making up the canopy per plant. What i'll do is follow each of the branches down from the top and cut off all of the side branches coming off the stem which will never reach the canopy. So that each branch has one massive cola at the top and no side branches below raping resources only to produce barely smokable fluffy popcorn bud. To be honest it's something i'd recommend even if you didnt have an overcrowding issue. This was the mistake i made in my last grow, which was why i was slightly disappointed with the bud size. This time around i pruned off all the lower branches that were never going to reach the light (which i did about a week into flower - you clearly do not want to be doing this later on in flower) so that each stem only has to focus on one massive cola at the top, and now i have the biggest buds ive ever grown - and a shitload of them - and no shitty popcorn bud from all the growth below the canopy.
Of course it is. I was just suggesting he leave it a bit longer because he will get more bud.
If you have enough room, big enough pots, and enough light - then i beg to differ. How can a bugger plant not produce more bud than a smaller plant?
