Week 5 flowering, very small buds stardawg strain

Hi all, any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. This is my 4th grow so wouldnt class myself as a total newbie. Although this is my first post. this is my first time growing stardawg. The buds seem very small to me for 5 weeks, my triple cheese, amnesia lemon and ayahuasca purple all seem to be growing at a good rate with good sized buds. The stardawg we did revert back to veg and then started flowering again. The plant had only just shown the pistils when we did this. Is this the reason for the slow bud growth? The plant itself is over 5ft there is plenty of bud on it just seems to have stopped growing past week or two. Thanks guys.

The plant might have been shocked and stressed to much.

Anything I do to my plants usually take between 3 and 5 days to fully recover from any damages or changes I do. Plants are really slow at showing signs of stress and from reading going from veg to flower back to veg can take up to two weeks to get back on track.

Thanks for the replies, it was reverted back to veg around 10 weeks ago when new plants was added to the grow room, since we flipped them all to flower 5 weeks ago at first the stardawg was growing at a fast rate, faster than my other 3 strains. But the bud growth seems to have stopped, i did defoliate the bottom third of the plant about a week ago, you think this has stressed her out a little? My other babies seem to have surpassed the stardawd with bud growth. Il upload pics in a sec. Using coir and canna nutrients. Under a 600hps light temps are around 27° Also gave them some pk 13/14 at 3 weeks flower

Heres pics

It doesn't look bad. And your 35 days into flower roughly?

Oh and when you defoilated is that when you notice the growth slowing down

Yeah 36 days today, and yes seemed to be growing fine defoliated the bottom 3rd of the plant and not really noticed it growing anymore. So do you think it looks okay? Thanks for your feedback

Only defoliated as it was extremely bushy like ridiculously lol. You think this was a bad idea?

No. Realize you damaged her and she has to heal herself. She will put alot of her energy towards repair vs growing. When I LST I expect slow growth for about a week then when she has healed herself she should continue. Jason the grow boss has taught me anything you do to your plants roughly take a week to recover or show signs of change. So far he has been right

I also forgot to mention, since your in flower be careful how much you take off. You don't want to take to much energy from the flower production.