That's because you removed all the solar panels. I've never understood the logic behind defoliation (the removal of leaves) in response to trying to get bigger and better buds. Let me explain in a manner I hope will make a lot more sense.
A plant is geared to do two huge things--grow and reproduce. They grow by converting sunlight into sugars, which are exchanged with microbes, back and forth. The conversion of sunlight into sugars occurs mostly in the plant's solar panels, which evolved specifically to capture sunlight. While the conversion of sunlight into sugars
can occur in the plant's reproductive organs, they are not normally the primary source or driver of these conversions, nor are they really configured in such a manner so as to allow for best collection and capture of sunlight. This is what leaves are for.
So if you remove the leaves, you're removing the plant's solar collectors, which means you're removing its ability to convert that light into sugars, which is how the plant grows and gives us flowers.
Another aspect to keep in mind is the plant's potential to convert sugars, which is limited by a few factors and can be increased by others.
What people should really be doing, in my humble opinion, is treating their cannabis like date palms and removing fruit (or in our case flowers) that has the poorest potential. This potential is the potential crop, or total yield possible from that given plant. The plant will flower and yield something even if you do nothing. The question then becomes one of quality of yield. We're not after little popcorny larfy buds, we want NUGGIES. This is achieved by doing some intelligent pruning, but not removing solar panels, removing flower sites is how. This is called by a few different names, one popular term is lollipopping.
What the goal is in that method is to remove the flower sites that will not develop well, those with the poorest potential, which leaves the plant free to spend its available energy on growing the best flowers, the most desirable flowers. Go to Dateland's site, read their date farming primer here:
http://www.dateland.com/how-are-dates-grown/
And you'll TOTALLY get it. Or at least, once I read that, I totally got it.
In summary, instead of removing solar panels, pinch out those lower bud sites instead. Let the plant photosynthesize as much as it can (without creating a hairy monster) and I think you'll really be very pleasantly surprised by the difference in results.
