Quote: Should I remove leaves to allow more light to enter?
The general rule is that leaves are sugar production factories for plants and that the sugar is critical for the flowering process. So, always refrain from removing leaves from your plant.
This is quite different from the stories that are sometime told about.... are we growing leaves or fruit.
Personally, I do remove a large number of older larger leaves to allow the fruit to receive direct sunlight once the fruit is basically established on the vine.
The reason for the particular lack of leaves in this shot is due to fact that I have my own method of truss ripening the fruit.
It involves waiting until such time as the vine has almost stopped producing fruit and flowers.
At that point in time, I am quite brutal with the Tommy Plants  I chop them off at ground level 
Next I strip all leaves and produceless branches etc. then they hang [upside down] with the remaining stems and fruit to ripen slowly.
Why?
Because I can  No seriously, I find it definitely boosts the flavor of the fruit.
The only real drawback is the fact that the plant is now destroyed 
This, does however, allow the growing of more crops per season due to the fact that the Tommies can either be stagered plan or another crop can be set in place ready for the coming growing season.
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