First off, you never remove leaves unless they are dying! Leaves make the food for the plant. The growth tips will find their way toward the light all by themselves. As for cuttings, sooner is better than later. Budded cuttings seem to take longer to develop roots, in my opinion. Plus they have to reveg.

I didn't remove the lower growth in my scrog, though some folks do. When the scrogged buds were ripe, the lower were still small, so I carefully chopped the screen off, lowered the lights and let the bottom go for a bit more. No, the bottom buds never achieved the size of the scrog buds, but they did grow a bit more after the main harvest. My replacement plants weren't quite big enough to put into the 12/12 closet, so it was not a problem to let the old plants go that extra time.

Why not run "scrog" through the search engine? You'd get all sorts of opinions that way!

Granny:hippy: