those leaves are what i was talking about the deformation. they will look like that and nothing you can do about it but new sets of leaves will come in and it will look like what a leaf should look like. and it branched out by using the LST method. you see that twisty tie holding it sidways? well if you pull the plant on its side slowly day by day and not all at once it will train the plant to branch out. search the forum on LST. other methods include topping and super cropping