...check the drainage on your 3ga containers. I had a couple of my earlier plants suffer immense shock from being overwatered after transplant into 4ga pails from 3ga grow bags. Needed to add more drainage. Mehupe.

They had some weird intense buds, tho, despite being killed off accidentally 1mo prior to harvest :/

Have added silica via some of the soil I've mixed in to some recent transplants, and the stalk gets insanely hard, imho. The plants seem to like it, tho...