I wouldn't remove dying material...and once you get good at it, there shouldn't be much to remove. I have found that a nutrient deficiency will spread faster when removed. Believe it or not, it is still photosynthesizing or transpiring, how ever you want to look at it.
not saying there is anything wrong with a cfl grow at all, just the way he is moving it from the southern equator to the rocky mountains day after day will shock the plant. (relatively speaking) If he had warm spectrum cfls and brought it in during the light time still and wanted to veg another 6+ hours, I wouldn't see a problem with that but if hes got those blue spectrums its not going to work...
