My 2nd true attempt to grow

This being only my second grow, I'm now applying some of the stuff I learned from my first grow. I topped them last week and am tying and bending the branches down this week. This is the first time I have ever done any type of training or defoliating on plants and it is nerve-racking. It feels so wrong cutting all that beautiful growth off of my girls but I know it will pay off later. I broke two colas and had to remove one of them but was able to tape up the other one. Hopefully I didn't screw this up too bad. Flipped them to flower at the end of the week. I may be pushing it a little fast, we'll see...