Inaugural grow - Amnesia Haze ILGM

Let's see... So it would have been Tuesday, I finally grew a brain and bent down nearly ALL of the colas on both plants to match the lowest. That seems like exactly what the plants had been waiting for me to do. The very next day, every cola I had tied down had turned up, and since then all growth has been even on both plants. Another thing I did was to look back over the page on ILGM for this strain for any tips to look for. The following is from the strain page on ILGM: "As an indoor plant, the limbs grow more horizontally than they do vertically. This allows the plants to grow into a wide bush, generally less than 3-4 feet in height. These plants require plenty of light and air to reach the nodes flowering on the lower branches. Therefore, it’s vital that you trim the wide leaves at the top of the plant." In my experience, these plants definitely like to bush out. There are a ton of leaves, and they only take a few days to get to be the size of my hand, so I do need to regularly check the light penetration through the plant, and remove a few fan leaves here and there as needed. My goal for now, however, is to just let the plant grow. I have the 21 main colas growing strong, and a huge number of secondary colas reaching up to match them. So far these two plants have a combined area of a hair over 5.5 Ft^2 (769.5 in^2), and they get taller and wider by the day. I definitely messed up when I topped the plants a second time. Immediately after I did, it was like each plant froze, especially B. It was more than a full week before the plants resumed the strong growth they had before. Next time I grow this strain (I still have 7 seeds in reserve), I will make sure there are at least 10 days between tops. Topping as early as I did not only cost me the week of basically stopped growth, but another of significantly slowed growth. The second thing I think I'll do for future grows with this strain is to back off a hair on the defoliation. Even through the plant does grow extremely leafy, and defoliation is necessary for light penetration, I have made a habit of stripping fan leaves. Since I've backed off, I've noticed much stronger, faster growth. Some of this is, admittedly, from the increased size that fan leaves are able to achieve, but the stems are also growing quick. The third thing that I have learned that was not the result of these changes is that, at least in the late vegetative stage, these plants LOVE light. I am, as I have mentioned, running a BestVA Dual-Chip 2000w, and at various points early in the vegetative stage it seemed like it was too much at 24", but now? I lowered the lights to 24" total, so currently the lights are around 18" from the canopy, and I see no signs of light burning. I think that 16" might even be doable, which by extension means that the plant may be able to get as close as 10" in flower, though I don't want to be much closer than 12". Bearing in mind that I started this journal on day 1, and that I am making this entry as I BEGIN week 9, and not as I end it, I am predicting two to two and a half more weeks in veg as it's growing. That will put it inside of week 11. I think the next journal, I will see if, learning from my mistakes will see me changing to 12/12 in week 9, rather than week 11.