im getting yield at for being on the comp so i stopped reading half the post so i apologize if this has been said. If you cut a branch off of any plant the plant wont try to heal that spot. The exact opposite will happen. it cuts nute supply to the branch fibers and causes a concaved wall of dead tissue to protect itself from anything that is trying to get into that wound. As an arborist I use this method on trees all the time. its called crown raising. if you take the bottom nodes off the nodes above will have more nutes thus growing wider and healthier and the new nute distribution will cause the same effect all the way up the plant. I knew this to be true for trees so i tested it out on my best breeding male. I took four clones for future inbreeding and had a perfect opportunity. out of the four i only crown raised three and all three surpassed the fourth. but out of the three it seemed the later one had the best results so i would advise to wait at least a week before throwing the fruiting switch. maybe even two depending on how long your veggin.