Bud looks great, very dense. Plant 2 has the largest buds by far and is the densest. Plant 1 still has a lot of white pistils poking straight out so to me it looks like the topping did set it back about a week or 2. Plant 2 is very mature looking, may even be finished in the next week maybe 2... but Plant 1 will need to go a couple of weeks longer than her sister. Frost is just starting to appear in the last week
Both plants seem to be alright, but The issues with the fertilizer keep teetering back and forth. Probably won't reuse the soil from 1gal. grows, the soil gets far too leeched. I flushed and added some fertilizer but the run is only a few weeks away from being completed so I'm not going to try very hard to fix it. Just a mental note.
@short21, There are a lot of good uses for Epsom salts in the garden, those are just a few ways to use them. I have really hard water so my plants can benefit from using Epsom salts periodically. This is also my second run in the same soil. But thanks! 😀