I dunno bout ya brown gooey, but your lack of side branching hurts my heart.
You said the light was sufficient. I trust you know your stuff.
I used the same lights as I always use and have calculated that its about right intensity and bought good stuff QBs from HLG. When it comes to the sidebranching I totally agree. They gave me many nights awake with tears in my eyes. Never had any major problems in veg, really. Some cal-mag deficciency but thats about it.
It was really strange I can tell you. The plants suddenly showed all kinds of deficiencies with leaves yellowing quick and falling off, did hardly drink anything and looked like the did not react to the light as they should,
As you can see on the first pic the side branching have more or less exploded on that one the last three days or so. The three others looks like the sidegrowth have picked up for, but not as explosive and at an earlier stage....
The only strains in the crosses that I have consumed before is Strawnanna, which I enjoyed very much. The place I live is a really small place in the mountains somewhere at the Balkan peninsula. The population is way below 1.000 and its a 5 hour drive if you need anything than groceries, stuff for hunting and fishing, simple repair tools and gasoline. Its very very peaceful and nice, but you need to drive at least the 5 hours to get hold on some noe-smokeable stuff so I have to make my own if I want a product with ok quality and if I want to try some new strains...
I kind of like that!!!