Trim out your lower leaves. Your thought about the plant putting energy into bottom growth that will not bud out with that particular light set up is correct. You also need to trim some of the larger fan leaves to get more light into the interior of the plant.

If you want to radically "top" the plant, wait until after harvestimg the bud, take some clones and you will have a trimmed plant that will regenerate very very bushy with a lot more bud sites.

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