Laughing Buddha/first time growing

Fun week! We spotted a few future bud sites and now we spotted even more! The light cycle is now changed to 13-11 because we wanted to speed up the process a tad and also we read that sativa's tend to like that. Some light defoliation too to help those girls give more energy to their top colas. They haven't stretched as much as we expected but it's something. EDIT: We performed some hst mid-week on early flowering. We bent a total of 4 branches. We taped one branch a bit because we wanted it to have some support in recovering since it was a bit more ''snapped'' than the other ones (not in the pics,will take pics on their recovery).