Mistakes, long veg and little space...

TheGrowNovice This is my second grow. Started from seeds. 2 in big pots (I don't know the exact volume, around 30l-40l) and 4 in smaller 18l pots. I assumed that not all plants would grow nice so I thought it would be a good idea to start with 6 plants, and if they all grew I could give three away so that I have enough space (3 plants for 1 square meter). Problem was that the people that wanted the plants, could only take them in like week 14, and then they should already be in flower. Remember the word "should". So I sticked with 6 plants in a very confined space.. As described in the Video, this was before heavy defoliation. A few days later I flipped the light schedule from 18/6 to 12/12. At this point I had already done LST and a combination of FIMing and Topping. The two big ones and one small are Mandarin jam and the other 3 in the small pots are Super Skunk. I think it would have been a better idea to put them in flower earlier.

TheGrowNovice So.. I f...ed up. In the last to weeks, I had put them in flower. They where streching like I expected but one night I remembered that I had forgotten to water them, so I walked in the Room when the lights should have been off. Surprise, the lights where still on! My timer had broken and I didn't notice it because I always went in the room when the lights should have been on anyways. In those two weeks I noticed that they didn't start to flower, but figured that it could be normal, because of the stretching. My plants went from 12 weeks 18/6, to 24h of light uninterupted for two weeks!! So now I had 14 weeks of veg, with too many plants in a very confined space.. The defoliation was for nothing because in those two weeks, everything grew back. I didn't took any pictures, so now here you can see the plants after 17 weeks (third week of flower) and a lot of defoliation and a little bit of lollipopping in the second week of flower (first time doing it, so it's rather an attempt at lollipopping). Any suggestions on what to to now and in the next run are very much appreciated!

TheGrowNovice The girls look amazing, even tho they wont all be ready at the same time. Mandarin Jam smell like a a fresh mandarin, cant even tell its weed. Super Skunk is musky like expected

TheGrowNovice Flower Week 6 Growing strong and forming bigger buds with many trichomes. Everything is sticky. Love it. Applied PK booster for the first time, the plants seem to like it. When do you think is the next good time to take of foliage? I dont like how closed the canopy is, and the top 30cm are filled with leaves = suboptimal airflow

TheGrowNovice Still looking good, one plant turned pink on me. runoff pH and EC is the same with all plants so I think its just the pheno. A few tops have shown signs of light bleaching, but nothing to be worried about. In those bleached plants you can also see some Foxtailing getting started. I hope the buds get thicker as I have not seen much growth in the last week. I wont take of anything at this point until the very end and I adjusted the lights to a bigger distance. If anyone reads this, you think 300plus Watts is too much for 1sq meter? Because I think I should have been able to do way better with this much light, but we will see it another time. The smell is very strong at this point and the pistils / stigmas are slowly turning brown.

TheGrowNovice Day 55 of Flower, getting near towards the end. Going to get rid of the last bit of Nutrition Mix in my Barrel and will start to just water with pH regulated water. A little concerned about mold, as some Buds are not spaced evenly. Will just observe and try to keep humidity below 65%.