no mo' 'mershy

My house is full again with 6 plants (L to R: Jelly Rancher fem, Vanilla Latte auto, Bubble Gum fem, GG4 auto, Gold Leaf auto #2 and #1):

Bubble Gum freebie is 91, on 3rd week of flowering. The Yuson 100w QB light footprint is not as even as the HLG lights, so I raised the perimeter branches to get the same light that the center is getting. So canopy isn't flat, but the branch tops are all getting close to 1,000 PPFD:

I got a new LUX meter that hooks up by Bluetooth to my Android "PPFD Meter" app. It works a lot better than the light meter in the phone. It has a built-in diffuser with a dome shape to detect light from various angles. I don't burn my eyes out from the QB's reflecting off the phone screen. The app comes with presets for this specific sensor: https://www.ebay.com/itm/323328445456

The Gold Leaf twins got cooties this week (two-spotted spider mites). I didn't want to spray while in late flower stage, so I've been sponging the bottoms of the bigger leaves with my home remedy mixture (3 t. citric acid and 1 t. Castille soap in a liter of water). Of course it's not total eradication, but it does seem to reduce the population by 90%. They haven't started munching the trichs on the flowers, but if they do I'll harvest early. After the first sponging, the only ones I found were hiding in the valleys between veins on the bottoms of the bigger leaves, so I sponged again. I will keep after them til harvest, and will spray the other plants before flower stage. I'm also considering Adamax (per Nebula Haze) or predator insects (per @Fermented_Fruitz):

Here's Gold Leaf Auto #1 and #2 this morning (day 57), and a trichome shot of #1 a couple of days ago. I might taste some lower larf soon:

GG4 auto is 36. The 2 tops in the center are growing out of the attempt to top above node 4. I missed, so I'm watching to learn about the result of a FIM. It looks like apical dominance was indeed broken, as the 8 branches (2 from each of the 4 remaining nodes) are clearly dominant. I pulled the taller branches down with jute twine poked through holes in the fabric pot to get a flat canopy. The 2 middle branches from the FIM are just about caught up to the others in time for flowering. I don't mind if I FIM again!:

Jelly Rancher photo is 20 days old. Her node 4 is not quite an inch long yet. I hope node 5 will develop in the next couple of days so I can snip it off, per @budelee's work (RIP).

Vanilla Latte Auto freebie joined the room this week. Her 1/2" root was dropped into a chopstick-sized hole, and the dirt packed around it with the top of the helmet showing. She's in a 4 gallon plastic pot (50% compost, 25% peat, 25% perlite, moistened with a gallon of diluted GH Flora trio). I baked the compost at 175°F for 4 hours to kill mite eggs, sow bugs, etc. Surprisingly, I've still found some weeds sprouting! Yesterday morning her first true leaves were fully deployed, so I removed her dome. Still misting her a few times per day:

I received 5k of Mother Earth coco coir yesterday to try my first coco grow. I'll soak another GG4 seed soon to get on a schedule of planting/harvesting every 3 weeks. (https://www.ebay.com/itm/224241177673). I need to improve the size and frequency of my harvests. It looks like the jars of Northern Lights and Purple Kush will be empty by the time they finish curing. That's it for this week. Much love and spectacular karma to all who've helped me get this far.
(that's you @420Forever @Fermented_Fruitz @Mossy @Mañ'O'Green @elcoloan @ShadyGrove @RastaDaniel @CrookDog @Kyote and others)