Mistakes, long veg and little space...

TheGrowNovice This is my second grow. Started from seeds. 2 in big pots (I don't know the exact volume, around 30l-40l) and 4 in smaller 18l pots. I assumed that not all plants would grow nice so I thought it would be a good idea to start with 6 plants, and if they all grew I could give three away so that I have enough space (3 plants for 1 square meter). Problem was that the people that wanted the plants, could only take them in like week 14, and then they should already be in flower. Remember the word "should". So I sticked with 6 plants in a very confined space.. As described in the Video, this was before heavy defoliation. A few days later I flipped the light schedule from 18/6 to 12/12. At this point I had already done LST and a combination of FIMing and Topping. The two big ones and one small are Mandarin jam and the other 3 in the small pots are Super Skunk. I think it would have been a better idea to put them in flower earlier.

TheGrowNovice So.. I f...ed up. In the last to weeks, I had put them in flower. They where streching like I expected but one night I remembered that I had forgotten to water them, so I walked in the Room when the lights should have been off. Surprise, the lights where still on! My timer had broken and I didn't notice it because I always went in the room when the lights should have been on anyways. In those two weeks I noticed that they didn't start to flower, but figured that it could be normal, because of the stretching. My plants went from 12 weeks 18/6, to 24h of light uninterupted for two weeks!! So now I had 14 weeks of veg, with too many plants in a very confined space.. The defoliation was for nothing because in those two weeks, everything grew back. I didn't took any pictures, so now here you can see the plants after 17 weeks (third week of flower) and a lot of defoliation and a little bit of lollipopping in the second week of flower (first time doing it, so it's rather an attempt at lollipopping). Any suggestions on what to to now and in the next run are very much appreciated!