Several weeks ago I raised the hood a bit trying to enlarge the footprint from the hood a little. apparently I raised too much because it wasn't penetrating as well enough and most of the lower buds weren't as firm as the usually are. Following Nippie's lead I took the tops and left the bottoms to go for another 4-5 days. I'd let them go longer but the next run is already on deck and ready to go & if I don't get shit going soon it's going to interfere with vacation plans. you know when I started growing it never dawned on me that I'd have pretty much plan everything around my gardening schedule:BangHead: the bottoms: