Here's where I'm at with the 'mainliners' ...
All four are around 3 months old now.
This one's got her own ideas about 'level canopy' .. she's been topped 4 times but hasn't been root-pruned, showing stretchy growth now with longer inter-nodal spacing than the others ..
This one looks the best, ironic considering this one was the one I originally thought I'd fucked up! ... she's got 8 cola-sites, only been topped 3 times and hasn't been root-pruned ..
These two both got root-pruned .. bushier lower-growth, not so stretchy, short inter-nodal spacing ..
The second one under the root-knife, this one suffered because I forgot to soak the roots first in seaweed extract ..
Didn't slow her down though ... new shoots appearing all over.
So, somehow, I've ended up with four very different-looking plants, even though they all got practically the same treatment at roughly the same time ..
Only another fortnight and then they'll be going in the oven !!
On a bum note, this is the damage caused by the little spidermite bastards ..
Plant has toughed-it-out tho' and it looks like I'm nearly home and dry now, albeit a bit yield-stunted.
The other three are fine.
This is day 54 ...