theres no need for this outdoors, indoors is different with a limited light source, but i removed my lower branches off one last year and let the rest grow, and alot of what were small measly branches grew up to bud nice, and i would look at the plant i cut the bottom branches off, and wished i didnt bc there was litterally no benefit from doing so. The buds on that plant were no thicker or heavier than the ones i didnt cut, all cuting them did was remove bud sites and decrease my yeild from that plant. but i needed to do it to find out it wasnt necessary outdoors, thats my take