If there is light hitting your floor, that's light wasted. If there is light hitting the walls and not being reflected back towards the plants, this is light wasted. If there is no reflector over the light and you have light hitting the ceiling, that's light wasted. Make the most of the light you are using, and try to minimize light waste. This is my guide for how close plants can be to each other in veg mode, and so far, I have not seen what RT describes as leaf irritation. (that's a good thing, right, Rusty?) In flower mode, I stop worrying so much about how much light the floor is getting and worry more about how much light each bud is getting, since they are only getting 12 hours, it should be a good strong close 12 hours of light to the maximum amount of buds. Almost none of my plants grow exactly alike and I grow from clones most of the time...nothing to really worry about as far as plant size goes...just let it keep growing and it may just catch up to the others....mine often do by the end! I attribute the differences in size to where they are in relation to the light (I only use 1!) and the slight variations in nutes and water and other things I may have done to slow one down...and I do make mistakes all the time! That's one more reason to love this plant....even I can grow one!

Hey Big Jim, nothing to worry about....just be conservative when trimming! You haven't really hurt anything, but don't take off any you don't have to.