Affidaze Untopped

Started off week 3 with a watering of RO water pH'd to 6.3 due to previous read off of 7. Runoff was 6.5. Even though I am 2 days away from my target goal of a 3 week defoliation, I decided to giver her a haircut today. This is my first time clipping the popcorn buds to try to encourage the main bud growth. I believe this is called lollipopping? Once again I feel like I had a heavy had however with 3 plants side by side, they needed to be defoliated for light purposes (was starting to get a lot of shade from the huge main fan leaves.