Quote Originally Posted by picklesrskankin
Great help man. I'll wait until I feed with nutes again and cut off some of the new growth on the bottom. LST was something i was thinking about also. I'll hopefully have some new pics up with the new haircut in a few days. Thanks for the reply.
I would like to highly discourage you from chopping on your girls during flower. You are risking severe stress and may cause them to hermaphodite on you. Plants in veg can be whacked on and trimmed up very nicely and they will simply adjust to it. Clean up all the lower branches and get rid of everything that won't be in the upper canopy BEFORE you go to flower.

Lollipopping is something you would do in the last 2-3 weeks of the grow. By this time all the lower fan leaves are dying anyway and the plants are concentrating on the upper bud growth. Removing all the extra growth at this point is indeed stressful, but there is not enough time at this point to change sex, and the removal allows additional airflow into the tender buds that are susceptible to bud rot and mildew, as well as allowing plenty of fresh air to get to the buds so that they can do that final swelling that they do at this time.