When harvesting bigger plants, most of the time you find that the lower section of the plant has undeveloped buds which could do with a few more weeks. For those of you who have harvested sections of your plant at a time, how much have you gotten away with without casuing damage to the undeveloped buds? At the moment, ill be looking at a good 70% of each plant... anyone chopped that much before? What happened?
I'm no expert but I would think even if it did anything it wouldn't be long before they ripen anyway. It could stop growth but they would still ripen. Unless it's so under ripe that it takes another 2 weeks to finish then maybe you would lose some yield.