Partial harvest

Just know it doesn't change the fate of the buds... it only impacts ripeness. Larf will not develop into denser buds if given more time.. . that is a matter of how it formed over several weeks prior. So, if you just want a more consistent level of amber from top to bottom, it's a valid option. You can wait for X-percent taget at each level of the plant as it catches up. I would not suggest it. I've tried it before. It was not worth the effort for me, but each to their own on this. i'd second the point about the leaves. don't heavily defoliate especially so late in teh process that leaves can't grow back for a proper canopy. Leaves power growth. removing leves does not allow a plant to refocus efforts on buds.. that's insanity. proper canopy management should avoid most need to prune leaves off. congestion is a disease vector, for example. That's a good reason to remove a select leaf or two. pruning leaves is seperate context from lollipopping. Plant looks great in that regard.. deep enough colas to maximize yield and minimize larf at bottom.

Not enough leaves on that thing to perform enough cellular respiration if you did, the stages for "new growth" is gone, all she can do is refine what is already made, yyour buds looks fairly even all across the plants so I would'nt bother, all you would really look for if you did is ripening the lower trichomes a little longer to get that 10% amber if the top buds managed to get a little overcooked through accelerating degredation of THC to CBN via high light/heat, trichomes on loweer buds could use a extra week, no problem, thats down to your judgement and your trichome cloudiness, Just dont expect a second spurt of magic growth, doesnt quite work like that.

doing this for tomatoes makes sense. doing this for berries makes sense. would you partially harvest a hop cluster, a broccoli floret, or a flower and expect there to be no sanitation and pathogen risk? partial harvesting is just the final nail in the coffin of "i didnt plan my canopy and couldnt ever get it back into manageable shape and not have to make sub-optimal decisions likely to impact the integrity of my harvest overall" true that this is a common occurence with hobbyists and homegrowing experimentalists, so is doing a hot soil with liquid worm juice and feces and bone marrow and blood and fish emulsions and not flushing... that is also something that hobbyists and homegrowing experimentalists vouch for regularly... nobody in industry does though. so just understand where rubber meets the road for the internet versus the industry bruv. so much of the actual work in cultivating for hobbyists and homegrowing experimentalists is done by the raw pedigree of genetics or their vendor solutions like fertilizers and gear, that it can be really hard to get to the bottom of 'best practices' when online

You can do so, it‘s a common method in harvesting :) Done it last grow