Should you cut off fan leaves during flowering

The last 2 weeks when I start the flush I chop off all of the fan leaves and have yet to hermie a plant. I do this so I can get the max out of the last 2 weeks. When I harvest I go until 80% on the trichs are resin and I usually only cut half the plant and leave the bottom half growing until the trichs are 80%

i started taking some fan leaves off my almost done plant. Resin increased and it started a growth spurt? I always believed in leaving the leaves on till its cutting time until a friend of mine grew 2 of my clones, my nutes, using nothing but 200watts of t-5's. He did remove the fan leaves a couple weeks before final maturity and since all things being the same except for the fan leaves, ( his plants where better in resin / high), i thought i would do the same.. this strain was an older Lemon Skunk. I also always understood that some stress makes the plant produce more resin as a defense. when i clone i clip the leaves to promote growth so removing some of the fan leaves might of caused the growth spurt and increase in resin? Not a professional study but first time i touched a fan leaf that wasn't ready to fall off by itself.

update: I am in the middle of cropping this first plant i ever cut my fan leaves off of.. it did create a growing spurt but all this new growth was " SEED PODS" ekkkk. i'm going back to leaving my plants alone unless leaves are dying.. i got with my friend and he did confuse that all his plants where going hermie bad and it was rough keeping up... ( i read in posts here that is a possibility from overly stressing by taking the palm leaves.).

tuck em if they are in the way man, no need to cut they will fall off when the ready. just tuck em!!

I always check which leaf-end steals the most light and cut off that part of the leaf. that way i double the penatration by cutting not everything but the part that needs to be cut. i once read: Never cut an entire leaf off, and so i didnt, it simply sounds the most logic.

Personally I leave all leafs on the plant until they yellow and as mentioned earlier, I give them a little tug and if they fall off, then I just sped up the amount of time the plant would have done in a couple days anyhow. It makes sense that if you pull off the food factories, the plant isn't going to produce as much food and therefore will not be as efficient in producing the best bud possible. If a fan leaf is blocking a bud site, I will tuck it behind a stem. This all works for me but everyone should do what works best for them. I've been growing about 20 years now, and this is what works for me. Might not be the RIGHT thing to do, but it's worked well for me. JMO.

I am going to be trimming a bunch of fans real soon as my tent is packed and I have to do it or they will burn on the lights I have set vertically in the corners.

I think it is most likely a draw if you trim or do not, as to bud production. You will stunt the plant some by taking fans, though you can reduce this by taking over a period of days or weeks.

You will get a more developed bud if it has direct light, though growers tell me different here on the web. Air flow and space restrictions are real things that need to be addressed and if that means trimming then so be it.