Not to mention that FIM apparently stands for "Fuck I Missed"..
I've always found that the more viciously I topped a plant, the more vigorous growth I got from it, so I see why you suggest growing so many nodes first..
Do you have any info sources as to 'why' the 2/4/8.... scheme appears at nodes 1/2/3....? Is that guaranteed to be common across all genetics? I'm just pretty good at spotting patterns like that, and I never really noticed that predictability..