I'm going to close this and repost it with better pictures once they've grown out a bit since there's no way to edit or add pictures to a question (as far as I know, sorry I'm new here!) I'm thinking I'll keep the extra top though on each side as an experiment. But basically, instead of the plant growing 2 growth tips per node, it's growing 3 with the third one alternating which side it grows out of between the already existing two.