Backyard_Boogie
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you probably wont need to bend the colas down cuz you flipped them early enough and they will stay relatively short and stocky. The trellis netting should do a nice job holding your colas upright. As for the fan leaves you should continue to slowly pluck them off to thin out the canopy. You have a ways to go once you are deeper into flower you will stop. Its a feel thing after you have done it a few times you just know roughly when the time is to cut back on the defoliating. I basically gotta be looking at the plant its hard to explain. Remember your main goal in defoliating is to open up the canopy and allow more light to penetrate deeper down. Stand above the plants and look directly down on top of them from a birds eye view. This makes it easier to see remember the light is coming down from directly above so use that angle. Then you want to first focus on the bud sites. Every cola top with hairs starting to form needs to be open exposed to the light. Sometimes leaves will grow over the top of flowers and block them. These are the leaves you want to focus on either plucking or tucking. keep slowly working it until you stand over top looking down and see a bunch of those white hairy tops. Expose as many of them to the open light as you can. Once this has been achieved then you can focus on thinning out some of the leaves on the sides of the shoots. In other words work your way down the canopy and pluck the sides of the branches after the tops have been exposed this will allow for more airflow and light deeper into the canopy.