i would to still lst and if you lollipop you should only take the bud sites and not the leafs, leaf the under neath leaf and if it was not meant to be theri it will die off naturally.
i how ever dont recommend lollipopping unless in a heavy scrog situation, i look at it like this and this is how i see it.
if you take away the under neath popcorn nugs then in all reality i see it as a lesser of a yield you will get. it IMO does not make the top buds much bigger at all to remove the lower stuff, if you grow healthy plants and give them what they want they will be big anyways.
if you leave the lower stuff then you get all this XTRA small nugs, witch either you can use as a stash or to make hash or butter.
so i ask this. why not get the xtra small stuff?