Check this topic out. Maybe it will help Northern Lights Second Topping Illustrated
As part of my northern lights grow journal I did a separate thread on the training and trimming I did.
I did a second installment titled Northern lights training continued
It simply shows the clean up I did in preparation for flipping to flower. The same plant is in both threads. The just of it is, over the week between the topping and subsequent clean up, how much it recovered and the amount of new growth.
Here is a overview (the condensed version). These are all of NL #2
5/18 before second topping
After she was topped
On 5/21 she received LST - couple recovery days.
This is #2 on 5/26 before any trimming
Lastly after her hair cut
I was not afraid to take upper fan leaves because there were plenty of large ones left. If you saw her today, after only 2 days, you wouldn’t know I touched her. One of the reasons for the significant growth of the lower branches is all of the node site were topped. The growth hormones that would have gone to one flower / colas is redirected to all of the bud sites below the cut.
Hope this helps. Ps this is my first photo grow. Just autos up to this point but I did play around w/ topping and LST. Just not to this extent.