Getting the rust off

Buds formed up this week, and I did pretty thorough defoliation. Bud sites are nice and exposed, and I removed any non-sugar leaves from the top of the canopy that I could do without risking cutting a bud site. From the top down, there's still not much coco able to be seen, but the buds are nice and exposed. I needed to re-hang my light once again because some of the taller plants in the very back had their tallest about 10 inches from the light, but the rope ratchets were at their highest setting. Since I'm exhausting the tent outside (of a 2nd floor window and I live on top of a hill), I removed the carbon filter, and hung the light directly from the pole via wires hanging about 0.5 inches from the pole. This was a PITA, and a good lesson for in the future to not mix growing training styles if it might mess up timelines. The just LST/supercropped girls were ready much sooner than the mainline was. Complicated by the fact that these were seeds, rather than clones, and two are expressing a phenotype with wickedly more stretch. I think at this point if you take out the 4" platform, the taller two might be 10" taller than the shorter one (not counting the mainline in this). My wife commented after seeing the pics of my work that the girls look like plucked chickens. I'm looking forward to watching the buds fill out.