Cutting plant

Hi all,yesterday I had try my first propagation on my wrightia .I cut a 45 angle from my tree after I put the root powder I pluck into the soil ,but before that I had done a mistake by remove all the leaf hope to have smaller leaf to grow.Is that a mistake,anyone try will it still grow?Thanks.

generally speaking - only 1 injury to a plant at a time.

your cutting will have no energy from leaves to send down to make roots