She won't stretch hardly any more now that bud formation has begun. Removing too many leaves has reduced her over all capacity to produce energy, which has resulted in quite a short plant for its age. Less leaves = less energy = less growth. A couple of other things; try to have your fan blowing just over the top of the plants rather than directly on them otherwise they will spend too much energy growing thicker stems and there will be less energy available for floral growth; and as it came from a "bag seed", be ever watchful for male flowers. Bag seeds usually are the result of female flowers that have produced male flowers as a survival "instinct" which means any seeds made by those plants will carry dominant genes for doing the same thing unfortunately.
Hope this helps,.... Organoman.