GrowforLife-Closet: Double Dutch/OG-Kush

At the beginning of week 6 (on Day 17 of flowering) the first female pistils (=white hairs) start to appear on Double Dutch plant #2 (from Serious Seeds) and one day later on plant Double Dutch plant #3 and a few days later also on OG-Kush (from Humboldt Seeds) and Double Dutch plant #1. All 4 plants have now switched to flowering, but are still expressing some stretch and continue to grow upwards. Every time the bigger leaves grow back too much, so they start touching and they get condensed water between the leaves (=they look like they 'sweat') I do another round of defoliation. The LST has helped to train the 4 plants into a bushy form, where each side-branch gets enough light from the top without being shaded by the higher canopy. UNFORTUNATELY the amount of fungus gnats EXPLODED during this week and I had to take action. The two yellow sticky traps I had hung up showed a lot of adult fungus gnats and every time I opened the door of the closet now, a whole black cloud of little black fungus gnats would fly up. This meant they are breeding in the soil and even more fungus gnats will come, if I do nothing. I therefore decide to take out all 4 plants of the closet, defoliate and spray them with a spray especially against fungus gnats (i bought one in the garden center made for roses). I also put in yellow sticky traps directly ONTO THE SURFACE OF THE SOIL, which should catch any hatching fungus gnats right away before they can fly around and breed again. After doing this the amount of gnats decreased drastically, now more cloud, just one or two still flying around when I open the closet. The plants get nutrients with very watering now (4 ml Plagron Terra-Bloom per liter) and are developing very healthy (=nice green color). Until now I love the whole experience with my Growfor.Life-closet, the plants grow VERY WELL and the system runs sooooooo silent that I sometimes check, if its still on....lol 😎