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I do it twice, usually at flip and then about 2-3 weeks post-flip, after they're done stretching. I consider the method you're describing to be akin to lollipopping, because my definition is removing poor potential bud sites.
To speak to mittenmedgrow's comment about how much one can remove, I've read, and put to practice myself, that you can easily remove 1/3 of the total above-ground plant material without causing harm to the plant. Removing just the bud sites shouldn't equate to quite that much.
My theory on not pruning much in veg is that I do massive amounts of tying and supper cropping and most of my lowers become uppers and also I think that when I go into flowering I want the plant to have developed that extra root space and stem girth that it needed to support the extra branches. Then when I remove them that extra capacity that has developed is sent to what I left on the plant. Make sense?
I agree with not only taking off any large, lower FAN leaves but ALSO chopping any stupid little 4" long, spindly, thin branches that I already know aren't going to amount to anything useful and only serve to use NRG I'd rather have reserved for the main colas/upper branches. This is coming from my standpoint/current situation of: a) I'm growing autos that have JUST started preflowering within the last week or so, so I KNOW that these little branches aren't, like, "on their way to being large producers"; b) I'm growing in a fairly small tent (24"X24"X48") which, between the roughly 10" reserved vertically for the pot and about another 9" or so on the top taken up by my gull wing CFL reflector, which leaves me with a grand total of, say, 30" or so for my girls to vertically grow (another reason why I'm running with autos; cuz they tend to stay "smaller! But don't be fooled, if I didn't prune, LST, even c some of my previous grows I'm SURE some of these autos would've had NO PROBLEM reaching over 3 feet tall and 2 feet wide!!!!) Right now I have 2 Auto N. Lights from vision seeds that just started flowering along with a (hopefully female) REGULAR Aghani plant that I got as a freebie with an order that I was gonna do a trial outdoor guerilla grow, as I've never grown anything outdoors, but anyway....yeah I'm REALLYHAVING just reading EVERTHING I CAN on the forums in here regarding pruning, trimming, scrogging, LST'ing, etc. so that I can make the MOST of the small space I have...I prune early and as often as my lazy ass will allow.
Any little sprig that I don't project growing into useful veg gets cut.
Lower branches are groomed for cloning or removed if needed clones are accounted for.
Taking out bud sites when they are small small small allows primary productivity to be assigned elsewhere.
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