Stripping? HELP PLEASE

OK, so I have a Chocolope that I had to flower a little earlier than I had planned. This is my first grow and I need a little help. I had planned to flower with a HPS light but i have to take my grow room apart around Christmas so I'm waiting for that set-up until my second grow.

So now I am flowering with a T-5 and one other large florescent light. What I need to know is if I should remove any of the large fan leaves to allow more light to get down to my lower branches. I semi topped this plant, and actually broke it but not completely. I allowed it to heal and it ended up working but I've had a LOT of stretching now.

I know that my buds are not going to be as good as with a HPS but I really want to do the best can for this little girl. She's extremely healthy, I need to know if there is anything at all I can do to optimize the chances of my buds being the best they can. I'm going to attach some pictures so you can have a better idea of what I mean.

Thank you all very much for your help!!!

Edit: this plant is 32 Inches tall at the moment though it is growing constantly. I'd like it to stop stretching, I've heard seaweed extract help? Foliar feed or soil feed? THANKS!!

nice plant and no do not remove the fan leaves unless its yellow crispy and dying, the fan leaves are like solar panels pulling power to your plant to grow and bud well the more fan leaves you have near the light the bigger the buds and the yields. the only thing i can think of that you can do to maximize your yield is low stress train for a even canopy so you will have all colas instead of some pop corn buds at the bottom getting no lights, be on point with your feeding schedule and water every 2-3 days plants need oxygen to breathe too so keeping soil moist is not a good idea.

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Don't go removing leaves on that plant.

You did make a mistake though, and it's too bad you didn't have someone to help you out with that before you got too this point.

T5 lighting has minimal casting distance. The amount of light, just 8 inches from the bulbs, is insufficient for healthy photosynthesis. So even if you removed some leaves it just won't translate into more light further down on the plant. What you should have done is trained this plant to stay short and wide, rather than tall and skinny.

Honestly, you are probably better off placing the light vertically beside the plant rather than horizontally above it given the distances between the nodes. CFL bulbs could also be creatively inserted around the plant also...

Learning experience. T5's are not made to grow 3 foot plants. 14 inches at best.

leave fan leaves. try to lst and get lights as close as possible

i see some stick supporting the plant to stay tall, id say remove that stick and let it bend horizontally and tie it to something and place the T-5 as close as you can. a T-5 is 4 feet long so i think a 3 feet plant can nicely be penetrated if it was low stressed trained underneath the T-5.

Well, I only have a two foot T-5. I didn't plan to flower with this it just came down to a time crunch/ having to clear and take apart my grow room for two weeks in december. I have a 4 foots double bulb that is vertical as well. I LSTed the branches, Im posting a picture of that. I just sprayed with seaweed extract I hoping that will stunt the growth. I know it wasn't supposed to get this tall with a T-5. Being my 1st plant I didn't have the experience to control it well enough. Honestly I just want SOMETHING decent to come from this and I'll be happy.

I mean, either way I bound to get some decent results right? The genetics are there and the plant has been healthy since I got the clone.

Thanks everyone for your advice, more is welcome!!

Also, the vertical light in the picture is on during my light cycle, its just off now to reduce glare for the picture.

That Chocolope looks good. I recently followed this thread which included a Chocolope that may be helpful (It was an LED grow): https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/345308-600watt-led-hydro-gro-op.html

I believe he removed some leaves, but have no idea whether he feels doing so helped or not. You could ask him.

one more for vertical along side her and adding more CFLs will help, the buds will be what they are.lol