first off dont cut the leafs they provide sugars to the plant when they turn yellow and die, and second they are the plants main source of photosenthisis(the shit that makes a plant grow) the cutting or topping method looks good it will force the bottom 2,4,6, ect... to take the place of the single main stalk. increse yealds to 50% with a uniform growth and bud patterns.

After 1 or two weks of flowering remove the bottom 1/6-2/12 sets of bull shit scrub leafs. on a kola with 8 sets of leafs only the top 6 will produce the desired bud (shit you can sell to people for profit) and it forces the main sugar production the the remainder of the bud sites. I want you to think "power kola's" and the good way to tell if the bottom shrub bud sites need to come off is when 8 of the 10 bud sites has hairs and the bottoms are still struggling in comparison you can just picnh those small sites off on the bottm only!!!