heres a pic of the one of my second set (nirvana chrystal) at 3 weeks,,,
i decided to lollipop this set (which is more of what u already said to do ) and i am getting much better vertical growth than on the first set ( black rose) ..
i didnt force the first set up and they just branched out... they were flowered with no veg time so i guess they didnt have enough time to be able to branch out properly so they just have these short buddy branches... im going to have a pic of those in an hour...
the third set i put in was black rose, which i also lollipopped and have much taller, single cola plants, that are growing less buds but are much larger..
and the fourth set is chrystal (see the pattern?) BR - CHRYSTAL - BR - CHRYSTAL..