Do I have too many small sites?

Hello, I’m growing 3 photos and my canopies are a little different from what I normally aim for.
There’s only about 9 main branches per plant and I’ve bent and tied down where each branch has a bunch of small shoots coming off it. They are getting direct light.
But I’m wondering if I should prune off some of the inside ones and let the ends get more love. I’m about ready to flip and the way they are now, I’ll a lot of small tops. Should I keep things as is, or is there a benefit to only having a couple laterals on each main ??
The pics show a side view and one from the top.
Thanks all.

I been realizing lately my clones just throw out more dominants than satelites with lollipop and defoliation. Then sometimes like lately maybe due to winter its just the 8 main nodes I topped at and the rest satalites. A bigger plant snuck in one or two fat colas.

So yea I been thinking I can only grow with it not force it to do things but guide it there. With some training. I veg for 8-11 wks and the latter didnt create more dominant sites.

My pheno needs no net mostly and just grows a certain way I should add pics. Some strains will grow a lot of branches or few dominants or even this pheno will grow a bunch of doms through super cropping and forming a whole new canopy through all the little nodes.

Just every run is different. I want to try monster cropping for a bunch of tops but theyre all smaller. Im just a habitual guy changes things minimally. So in short they look good they may or may not thicken up we will see.

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Bullmark said:

Hello, I’m growing 3 photos and my canopies are a little different from what I normally aim for.
There’s only about 9 main branches per plant and I’ve bent and tied down where each branch has a bunch of small shoots coming off it. They are getting direct light.
But I’m wondering if I should prune off some of the inside ones and let the ends get more love. I’m about ready to flip and the way they are now, I’ll a lot of small tops. Should I keep things as is, or is there a benefit to only having a couple laterals on each main ??
The pics show a side view and one from the top.
Thanks all.View attachment 5456291View attachment 5456292

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I wrestle with this question every grow. I think some plants do better with smaller sites and some like the main big ones. I've gotten dense mids from one plant, but larfy trash from the one next to it, both from the same seed pack.

I even ran a clone of a plant, genetics I'm otherwise familiar with as well, leaving more lowers, and didn't see a noticable difference in top-bud yield (I don't weigh yields). But again, that was just the one plant.