Pink Lemonade mmmmmm

Looks like another week has flown by with these girls! Was a busy week as well with lots happening in the grow tent. Not much vertical growth again, but wow they're filling in! On Day 43 I cleaned out the 4x4, sprayed down tent/light/fans/filters and got the girls moved in as they were really filling out the 3x3 already! Have the Photontek x465w running 75%@20" for 450-600 PAR range and they seem quite happy 🙂. Day 45 things were looking healthy and quite bushy so gave the girls their first defoliation. Took about 35-40% of the leaves/growth off (filled my small garbage) and they bounced back within 24 hours! Seem like a pretty resilient strain so far 🤞. Did notice some fungus gnats in the tent so applied a coating of Diatomaceous Earth to all plants. It's quite effective, but have to reapply after topsoil dries each watering for it to be effective. Also have yellow sticky traps around which are doing their job. To negate this problem in the future I am going back to watering every 2-3 days. Right now that means 4L every 48 hours between the 4 plants. Filling top and allowing to soak in, with a SMALL amount of runoff by end of water. Should help keep gnats away. Day 49, the end of the week is here and it hardly looks like the girls were defoliated at all! Each plant has 6-8 "tops" that have all been trained into place and are starting to create quite the canopy, and I haven't even gotten out the netting yet! #3 so far has the flattest one in my opinion, but they're all coming along so well. Fungas gnats see to be just about all gone, will keep up with treatment for another few days to make sure and be more alert going forward. On another note I'm reading that this strain has a "high" stretch rate, so I better get my butt in gear and transplant these girls into their 5gal final homes and get them ready to flower! Happy growing!