Rise of the Fogbender

I came back at the middle of the week to a moderately bushy plant. Defoliated it again, and gave it the final training before flowering. I also further reduced the light period to 16/8. I got 4 clones from this, and I'd like to try doing my next grow from these clones. I've done cloning before (to give to friends), but never tried growing them. Near the end of the week the girls have recovered fully, and so I flipped it to 12/12. I did notice that the new growth are a tiny bit too light colored, so I put in some extra 32-10-10 growmore NPK nute to boost the Nitrogen. Now that I think about it, I could have just used more Calcium Nitrate, but it's fine I guess. The journey to flowering has begun! Now it's gonna be even more fun. Since I have two plants that pretty much behave the same way, I want to do a side-by-side experiment. I will try schwazzing on Kate (right), which is a really extreme defoliation technique where I strip pretty much all it's fan leafs, at 1 & 3 weeks mark. I will do the 1st week stripping tonight, the first night of the official flowering week to only Kate. As for Pippa (Left), I will let it be relatively bushy, and only do a normal strategic defoliation. Both plants will get a some lollipopping done too; not too much since the plant is already pretty low and squat already. I am not interested in determining whether it will give more budsites (quantity); I know for sure that they do. But the promise is that extreme defoliation will give fatter buds (quality), so we shall see.