Bushy jack herer mars hydro led defolation dwc bubbler

After my first grow of jack yielding 1.5 oz on a 1 month veg is decided to utilize some defoliation right now the plant is at around 1.5 month veg from the clone of the plant I did recently and posted on here. I have upgraded to mars hydro 300w LEDs I have 2 at the moment. But look how bushy these things are! I thought the mother was bushy but these are Rediculous. Probably 20 even bud site locations all level on the top. The other 2 are some white widow which I'm surprised have caugh up in size as fast as they have since there were planted about 3 weeks after these clones rooted. Each plant in the pictures were topped once around 4th node. Also stem on the one plant is the size if half dollar going to wait another month before I flip. Any thoughts or suggestions my light is 24" away I'd like them to stretch a little personally

You could run into airflow issues..

I'd lollipop them, take off the growth from the lower third of the plant.

If you let them get tooooo tall, you're going to be in trouble without a trellis net, scrog, or 1,000 bamboo stakes lol

Would you flip now? or wait longer? id like to let roots develope a little more on the ww before flipping. they are only a foot or so tall right now. maybe 16"

Depends how tall you want them.

Depending on strain plants usually double or triple in height

This gives me great hope for the mars hydro nockoffs I just got to start some moms

To back up mars hydro lights I ended up shortly after orignal post building scrog nets. Unfortudenly I split one jack down the center of the 2 big branches which stunted growth and broke a main branch off one of the white widows when I was installing nets each net is 28x28 inches and is attached to lid for easy res change. The Jacks suffered from ph issues when I was away on vacation which also stunted growth l. All 4 plant yielded a fair 6 oz. The undamaged ww yield 2.5 oz alone l.5 oz on the other ww and 2 oz combined of Jack. I realize I'm under watt for grow space 56x56 with only 25 watts per sf. I have another harvest in 3 weeks but after i will either drop grow space size in half or get 4 more lights