soil settled more than expected; repot vs leave them alone?

Pics taken yesterday, 74 days from starting seeds in a filter. Gertrude never looked great or grew much after repotting but did recover somewhat. Ginger seems happy if small. Both Gnomos should finish in about a week or so, I'm thinking. No idea how much longer for Kalinda, have never grown the AK before. Not a great grow but as you can see from the closeups the Gnomos are definitely packing something so it won't be a total loss. And Kalinda will obviously yield a lot of bulk, though she has been slower to show trichs.

From what I'm reading today, Gnomos are fairly sensitive to trauma while the AKRs are a resilient strain. That certainly shows in the experience I've had with the repotting and with Kalinda bouncing back from my clumsy LST trying to get it down out of the lights.

Postscript... turns out the repotting was not the only problem on this grow. My soil ph meter was apparently dying and gradually giving me increasingly higher (and wrong) readings, at least partly my fault because I was using it sometimes in the watering can which they don't recommend. I felt like I was having to add a hell of a lot of C to keep the ph down, and I was out of the tablet-type tests, but once I got a dropper kit in for measuring liquids I found that the poor kids were way too acidic, in the neighborhood of 4.

It's true that FFOF has gotten some weird reports, but I was way overcorrecting. Still, even the completely stunted little plant produced an excellent large pan of brownies (9x13 pan, 32 decently strong brownies out of just 4g of dried material), and the other two have continued filling out buds, producing trichs and stinking up the house despite having less than happy looking fan leaves. I gave them some extra time to recover a little from the ph problem and will harvest over the next week. The AKR is still going and still has enough white pistils that I don't think it's quite ready, but the other Gnomo is done.

Gnomo doesn't seem to be very popular but if you go in knowing that it doesn't rebound well from trauma and you don't try to train it (or repot it) you can get a very nice product out of a small space, which is its strength. It throws almost no fan leaves, the whole small plant is mostly bud with a nice fragrance. The one in his picture has been through a crappy grow and I still expect to get some good extractions out of it. And I am looking forward to my first experiences with the AKR. Lord knows it's a durable creature.

The Plant is very generous with us even when we fack it up like I did. I feel like I need to grow again ASAP and do it right, not because I need that much at once but to do right by some plants again.

~fin~