Nooooooooooo! LEave the leaves alone!

Just bend your plants over. Your limiting factor is light more than space. No matter how many plants you cram under the same amount of light, your yield will be similar.

Too many females... if we could all be so lucky... consider putting one of those monsters back in veg and turning that fine female into a clone donor. Then you have an endless supply of bitches to pimp in the future.