How to partial harvest an auto.cut main once low or individual?

[lymp]

What's the least stressful, cutting each bud off up high on the thinner stems or cut the thick stem once down the bottom?

 

[arteekay]

Least stressful to you, or the plant?

I can't see how it'd make much of a difference myself, but if anyone has a different opinion I'd love to hear it as well.