Looks like things are going great for you. congrats man. I would love to top a few of mine and strip a bunch of leaves also. but this is my first grow although I'm confident it wont kill the girls I'm not sure if it will be negative to flower production. I'm still only a dew days into flower and have been trying to decide quickly. Still haven't but I know one of these days I'm likely going to start chopping and hope for the best. Your plants look great and I love the visual practicality of the way you've got it spread out with all the impotent parts accessing the light better. It just makes a lot of sense to keep her vertically condensed especially given how fast lumen depreciate over distance. I have some that are no more then 8" wide but are approaching the 2 foot mark for height. I have lots of height in my situation but It just don't look efficient to me.

Any way. Keep on given-er dude! I'm fallowing you along for the ride.