questions about branches, bud sites, plant structure

I thought only tops produced branches from the nodes. Every one of my plants has been super bushy (they were a little squeezed in their space now that I've got more room they've opened up significantly).

When they first started growing, the branches came from the nodes off of the main stalk, which I was familiar with. But now that my plants aren't seedlings, every single one of them has the same type of structure-- every branch, not just the main tops, are growing branches from their nodes as well.

I've taken off a lot of the lower ones. At first I through it was just leaves growing at the nodes, but like I said even my branches are growing new branches at the nodes.

Which leads me to my next question, what about the bud sites? Will each of these small branches (coming off of branches) produce buds at the nodes? Or will only the branches coming off of the main stalk produce buds at their nodes (all the nodes on the branch, not just the base).

I've been wanting answers as to what my best bet would be, as far as whether I should take off these small branches or leave them on. In the end I guess I'm just gonna have to grow these fuckers out and see what I like best.

I want the overall best yield, and I really don't care if its popcorn buds or big fat colas (prefer the colas but I'm going for weight).

Any insight is greatly appreciated. Is this regular development for a plant? I've just never seen one with as many branches as mine. I've been lollipopping the lower ones, but I don't want to pull these branches off if it will "deactivate" the bud sites

For exanple, my white widow plant. These are all mostly tops, out of the ten new growth sites I think 3-4 of them are technically branches but they are all pretty even after I super cropped them a while back. Its still recovering from losing a lot of its root mass during transplant (doh!)

But can you see the spots on the stalk where I have taken off the smaller branches? If those get plenty of light, can a flower form at those sites?

Yes any branch or anything with a growing tip will turn into a bud

So you know how buds form small at the nodes at first and grow together into a big cola? Will little buds form at these nodes where I've removed the new growth coming out (removed the branches forming during veg)?

No buds will not grow where you removed the growth sites because the growth sites are the buds. I don't know how else to explain this

Well you said any branch with a growing tip will grow a bud, which was not very expletive. The branches on that widow have growing tips so I was just clarifying to make sure that it wouldn't grow a bud at those sites, even if the tip was growing..

Thanks for your reply, the second one brought a little more clarity.