You can’t go overboard topping a plant that is trained into an indoor SCROG. Allowing side nodes to develop instead. If not careful, can develop a canopy the root mass can’t support and the whole plant crashes. You end up with loose, airy larf.
I’m not convinced yet that a properly done supercropped plant won’t do as well as a SCROG: I have not seen a difference yet. That said: I love doing a SCROG, mainly because I like futzing with my plants.
Pretty plants: very nice so far.
Here’s my journal: post number 140 or so shows my SCROG design.