Ok here are some new pics of my girl. She's now about an inch over the fence height, my guess is about 6ft. As you can seein the last two pics, the neighbors driveway is pretty farking close. I tried just a test bending and I don't know if that will work. It's already bushy enough that the leaves stick up just as high when bent. I'm still going to attempt the tie-down and see what becomes of it.

As for the flowering, how long is it normally before flowering takes place? If I recall from past reading, the amount of sunlight has a large effect on this, I just don't remember what. My girl only gets about 4 hours a day in fully direct sun, so maybe that might be causing the issue.