The popcorns on the remaining lower branches are just as good to smoke as they are for edibles.
When you harvest, keep a bowl off to the side specifically for your quality sugar leaf trimmings and small buds. Now you have a high-quality "shake" pile of cannabis.
"shake" gets a bad name. My shake has near or the same efficacy that the bud does. Looks different, but after grinding, it's all the same
Personally, I make edibles and tinctures with my shake for the most part. It's common for me to get one oz of "shake" for every 3-1/2oz of bud I harvest. I go a bit overboard on throwing things into the "cook bowl" (as I call it) as opposed to classifying it as "baggable".