~ 4th week ~
At the beginning of the week the plants are 15 cm tall and over 35 cm in diameter.
They started to develop fifth layer of leaves. The lower leaves became huge, almost like chestnut leaves.
The main trunk is as thick as a pencil. It's not very clear in the photos, but the side branches are 5cm long, and the space between nodes is 2,5 cm.
The middle plant on the left (#2 Purple OG Punch) is significantly taller than all the others. She is over 30 cm tall. The rest of plants are 15-20 cm tall.
I swapped places #2 with #1 because the 'two' obscured the others in the photos.
UPDATE: I had to trim the top of this tallest plant (PPOG #1 from now) - by the end of the week she was twice as tall as all the others. She had to fit in with the rest - otherwise i would have trouble with the entire crop.
At the end of the week, i sprayed the plants with a neem oil solution. I always do it (once a month) during each crop prophylactically - since i had a sad experience with a spider mites some time ago. Once the plants are in the flowering phase, i won't be spraying them any more - that would be bad to the taste of smoke. Instead, i'll use the Neoseiulus Californicus (beneficial mite).
The plants look magnificent - you can see that they lack nothing. And that's most important.
Keep it up.
Looking so great! I have taken the opposite approach with Poppy, she is being uber-LST'd! Good luck with this, though it does not look like luck will be needed! 💪💪