Thanks for the kind words, ladies

GrowB - yea, my wifey is the best. However, I wish she'd be remotely interested in my grow right now, especially since I've told her I'm going to repeat it for the next 50+ years haha. Whenever we have nothing to do I try to get her to stick her nose in the plants and smell to see if the aroma gets her interested but...NO DICE! Oh well, they'll always be my "girls on the side" haha.

Catbuds - I have actually mentioned to my wife that there is a female member on the forums that is very enthusiastic and helpful in regards to growing (I will have to let her know that there are now 2 since GrowBitch has joined us). She is now very excited that there is a "bank" of Christmas and birthday gifts that she can use FOREVER when she doesn't have any ideas for gifts for me, and that works fine for both of us.

Couple things I've noticed overnight:
Well, I called out sick to work because I was too excited about the training I did with the ladies yesterday and I couldn't wait to see how they'd react today. I have plenty of sick days and it's holiday season, I don't feel bad about it. My lights turned on about 25 minutes ago, so I decided to go check them out.
- Almost all of the branches (including main stem) that I had bent/lightly bruised, are now again upwards-facing towards the "sun". It makes me feel like I should have been a little less-gentle, and bent them a bit more.
- While the tops are growing upwards again, I can also see how the branches have been trained to begin growing in a more outwards direction. This is really going to help me out because of my height limitations. Next grow, I am going to top the ladies while they're still young. Everything I've read and watched said it's ok to do after the 3rd nodes develop. I will remember this during the next grow.
- Today only, I have noticed a slightly different smell when I stick my face in my plants and when I just pruned (I always smell the exposed oils at the base of my cutoffs). The smell is still delicious, just a slightly different one than I even noticed yesterday. Do your plants slightly change aromas during the grow cycle?

Here is a pic with what they look like today as compared to last night when I first tied them down, for the sake of the log. I didn't realize I had the exposure settings on my camera phone turned down last night when I took that dark pic.

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