Early flower stage. Lots of new branches on manifold

I'm 10 weeks into this grow. Photoperiod Sour Tangie. Just flipped to 12/12 5 days ago. Using the manifold system. Question is do I trim the extra branches shooting off or leave them. Starting to get unbalanced.

TJart said:

I'm 10 weeks into this grow. Photoperiod Sour Tangie. Just flipped to 12/12 5 days ago. Using the manifold system. Question is do I trim the extra branches shooting off or leave them. Starting to get unbalanced. View attachment 5473583View attachment 5473584View attachment 5473585

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IMO - it's still a little early for the lollipop - they are in the middle of the stretch. I usually wait until between Week 4 and Week 5 of bloom for that clean-up phase. That is when you can see which are in the main/secondary canopy and which are the removable sucker branches.

Anything taller than what light can penetrate isn’t ideal, I would bend/tie the branches down to open the plant out to the lights footprint.
After flipping there's generally around 2/3wks of vigorous growing where plants doubling in size isn’t unusual.

I bent them down a few days after flip.

About 2wks later

same thing different plant.