Weed 4 JennyB

Researched endlessly and could not find a definitive answer so as usual I went HAM and made a huge decision in line with my 'winging it' philosophy. The plant was so bushy I just figured so much bud sites would be in shade so I looked online and read to trim every dang fan leaf. So I did. Controversy? IDK. Plants didn't die, what they did was regrow every fan leaf over night and spring up a few more inches... intended... maybe? Things look ok at this point but now I'm not so sure about pruning so heavily. If its just going to regrow every fan leaf that I trim then doesn't that mean the plant is growing leaves not buds? Aahhh. After scouting around this website for grows similar to my own I have solved the mystery of what I did wrong. I now realise I probably should have switched my lighting weeks sooner. Now the beast is growing at a phenomenal rate and I haven't even started to see bud sites. What I took for bud sites was just pistils I guess. Now I'm not sure what to do.