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Lowered the lamp to its lowest recommended height above the plant per HLG, the manufacturer, of 12 inches on Day 22. This is different from my last grow, when I left the vegetative lamp at 15 inches above the plant until the flowering lamp switch for some reason. I was pretty afraid of light burn with that grow, so that's prolly why that happened. Don't remember. Light schedule back to 24 hours on Day 23 as well. Seems a good time to start pretending it's summertime, or something, so leave the light on all day. (I don't know if it's necessary to do this, but I do like just leaving the humidifier on 24/7 so that I don't need to get up early anymore to turn on the machine.) I'm not sure what's true at all about light schedules yet. I think it's going to take a while for me to do experiments on that issue. Someday, I'd like to do a test of going 12/12 with an autoflower in flowering, for example. See what happens. Then it happened, AGAIN! I broke the main branch doing LST on it on Day 23. I had come up with a technique in my second grow where I would hold down the main branch with TWO LST hooks on successive nodes to provide greater branch support when pulling it down. But I just forgot to use it. I was getting cocky, I think. I had broken that same branch in my first grow, so repeating the same mistake is frustrating. But the same as my first, in this grow, the main branch didn't completely break through. So I unhooked LST on that branch and let it heal. It eventually completely would. I'm not sure when It happened, because that branch is in the farthest part of the tent and the plant was already pretty big when it finally happened. But it happened. Nonetheless, I think this mishap slowed the growth of that branch, but in my strategy that's a good thing. But there's no denying that I was stressed about that whole branch dying on me when this mistake occurred. Everything's OK now, but that wasn't fun. The trellis net for Screen of Green was installed on Day 25. Many think of them as distinct techniques, but Screen of Green, I think, is actually more like a powerful subset of LST. When there are too many branches to grab and control, it's great to just be able to push down a whole part of the plant under the net, and that's it. Everyone is going where you need them to - just not up! 😄 It sets a visual limit to how high you're gonna let the plant go. In order to maintain proper discipline, I measure how high the net is above the floor on all four sides, and I make sure that it isn't above a certain limit. As mentioned in the Goals section of the Week1 comments, this limit would be only 10 inches, strictly held as long as possible this time. You can see in the pictures above that leaves of this plant are hovering awfully close to the coco coir. Turbo, LST. Mode. Not. Kidding. 😂 This is so much fun. By Day 27, there were signs the main branch was resuming growth. Cannabis plants are magical in their abilities. Pure magic. I guess that counts as High Stress Training too, right? She wasn't topped, anyway. I still have never topped a plant. Thanks for reading. Hope this was helpful somehow. Have a great grow day. Check out my YouTube page at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtLdjlvS0mK9Pu3pkumUu-w