Relax, gregk, I'm sure he didn't cut too many leaves off; that thing could've used a haircut, anyway. I honestly could barely see signs of bud, which either means it's still young and immature or it's completely obscured by leaf, which will seriously get in the way if the plant fills out with more leaf than bud. But I've never heard of a plant leafing out like crazy and crowding out buds. Can you supply some pics so we can see how she looks with her new do, singo? She really doesn't look like she'll pull more than several dry grams if she's almost done; I wouldn't believe that she's more than a week or two into flower if it weren't for the fact that you're just using a single CFL.