5th grow: ChemPie and Laughing Buddha

Day 28: The stretchy gals completed their first month of grow and still look quite healthy and show some good growth. They drink around a litre per day, get food with every watering and some microbes once a week. Both of them made quite a mileage in growth. The Laughing Buddah recovered well from topping and the ChemPie survived my first fimming perfectly. Last weeks focus was recovery from the topping and doing some LST to spread out the branches. I also plucked some fanleaves and broke some stems on both of them.. They seemed to manage the stress quite good, despite the ChemPie being a bit droopy today. The branches on these to girls are much harder to "organise" than the branches of the "Green Crack Punch" i'm running. Because of their sativa nature, i feel like i need to pay extra attention to do LST for height control besides organizing the branches for a flat canopy. I want to give them another week in veg and switch the lights to 12/12 next weekend. So while i try to keep things simple and just stick to the basics without overthinking too much, i'll just let them grow and adjust LST to have a good base and kind of an even canopy for flower. I definitely want to keep an eye on the ChemPie, but at the moment i do not expect a lot of trouble this week. Just managing their height may be a challenge further down the road. But because i have been ultra conservative when it comes to height during all runs, i try to be a little braver and take the extra week to see what happens. We'll see, but i'm curious!