Sounds to me maybe you need a bigger pot? How many gallons is that pot? What week of veg are you at?
I’m not sure if I’m the right person to answer how and what to remove because If you read all the rules they say I think no more than 20 % to remove at one time. I say if your weed plant remember it’s a weed is healthy and strong in Veg you can take anything you want / makes sense to remove. I personally take even branches that I think will be just ok buds. Every time you harvest look at the buds and branch. Look at what you like and what you didn’t like. Learn to remove what you will not like put that energy into something you like / make it even better.
My normal go to is I go in hard and take a lot. I want to see threw the plant. Then I don’t touch them for min 7 days (unless I have to for some reason) Is this what most people do I don’t think so but that’s what I do.
Don’t really think this answered your question but hope it helped a little