I got two plants going, one mainlined the other (different strain) that I topped for 4 main colas. I noticed the mainline is not stretching as much. I assumed it may be due to different strain but it may also be from the mainlining? The mainline plant fell a little behind from the get go due to all the training. I tried to LST to keep the tops even but they are in full on stretch mode now and the mainlined plant is falling further behind.
I assumed waiting two weeks to remove lower growth was to ensure the new shoots don't pop back up and need to be trimmed down again. Mr. Vega I am looking at your pics (avatar) and it looks like you kept a lot of the lower shoots just cleared out some of the fan leaves. Nugbuckets plants don't seem to have a lot of side branching but may just be a strain thing as he mentions.
I took a couple clones of each and going to try and get this down as I love the look of my plants and loving how thick the branching and stem are....It seems very slow to start but see how it comes around on the back end and catches up. Also this time around I will be better about giving a little more time between cuts, lst etc. to hopefully speed up recovery time in veg.