Well I started off by being extra cautious removing the ladies then upon removing the WW I heard a snap, closed my eyes and feared the worse. Slowly removed her and found that one of the weakest of the 4 main branches had broken in half.
I decided to sacrifice that branch for the rest of the plant and removed it since it has serious issues. I also decided on 2 main shoots as the others were just not cutting it.
Took off a good amount of leaves and undergrowth removed some fan leaves to make room for bud sites. I'll have to go back & count how many I have now, I removed 10-12 weak bud sites low on the plant that would have wasted energy from the main colas.
I placed the White Widow on a box roughly 4" high so now the tops are completely even for both ladies. The AK had a very weak main shoot as well I decided to clip that it was having serious issues.
To recap: WW has two main shoots now and the AK48 has 3. Pictures below
The trimmings
WW
AK48
See name tags in pictures WW has two main shoots Ak48 has 3...
Bud Shots of the ladies
Significant removal of under growth and weak bud sites
AK48 is on left, WW on right note the 4" added height to get tops even
WW
AK48
I don't think I took too much a little disappointed there won't be 4 colas / lady but I think that was wishful thinking to begin with the size of the off shoots didn't justify keeping them and so me accidentally breaking one of the weaker ones made up my mind that only the strong survive
Appreciate the kind words thanks to Flo & Lightguy for getting on me about trimming them up some more lol