4x4 multi strain coco

This past week has been stressful for the plants but all are responding quite well. I transplanted to 5 gallon fabric pots in self buffered coco perlite mix, I was heavier handed with the perlite than intended and the mix ended up being about a 70/30 split. They all responded amazingly to the transplant and have had a ton of growth this week. I noticed rust forming in the lower sets of true leaves (guessing from the poor drainage and over watering in the solo cups) on the Pineapple Chunk and one of the Critical Orange Punch. I removed all affected leaves, and both plants have responded exceptionally well, I did this the day after I transplanted so lots of stress in a short period, but I didn’t want to risk the rust spreading to more leaves or other plants. On Friday all plants seemed relatively healthy and had developed 6 nodes (minus 2 that were removed because of rust on the Pineapple Chunk and the Critical Orange Punch). I instantly regretted it and thought I probably should have waited another week, but all 4 plants are responding very well so far. I also started a little LST to open them up and let light in the center to help promote growth of the new tops, that was today so time will tell on how they will respond, but in my experience LST usually provides decent results especially when started this early. I do plan to SCROG this grow, so all 4 will receive considerable LST and be topped a few more times in the coming weeks (as growth permits). I did make a big boo-boo when preparing for LST on the Blue Sunset Sherbert and nearly split the stem, this was after I had already topped so not ideal at all. I had to remove the node at the split, which could have potentially damaged the new growth shoots where I topped. It’s not displaying any signs of stress, but will be interesting to see how the growth looks given the damage.