Hey Hemper, your girls are real beauties. They look like you maybe topped or fimmed them as they are very "branchy".
I am suprised that you are suprised that you got all females. Those are the special femenized seeds that Rockster engineered from a sexually reversed female. From what I read, every seed from that Cheese line should be female.
Just to add in my 1cents worth (I don't know enough to add 2 cents) on the organic vs. chem debate... I read and understood that microbes in soil do a chemical reaction process to break down organic materials to a level that can be absorbed by the roots of a plant(this chemical process is called chelation). The plants in turn trade sugars to the microbes for the "chelated" nutrients. In this way microbes decompose organic matter.
With chemical nutes the elements have already been chelated, and in order to make them more soluable when added to hydro systems or just mixed with water, the minerals are tied to salt molicules as transporters. If I understood correctly, this salt mineral compound takes the place of the microbes as a delivery mechanism. As the plants take in the nutrient minerals, the mineral salt compound is broken down and the salt gets left behind.
Now if this is correct, then the microbe gets cut out of the "trading" action with the plant and ends up going hungry(to an extent), and as the salt builds in the soil, it becomes too toxic an environment for the microbes to survive.
However,(this is my gestimated opinion) if you are using organic soil that is "organic matter" rich to begin with when the microbes are introduced, then they have nutrients to trade with the plant and should survive until either the available matter is depleted or until the salt levels become too high for them to survive.
There is a way to test this if you want to put the time into it. you would use smaller containers of FFOF soil. The first container you would run a chlorine solution through it to kill off any existing microbes(don't use scented bleach, only clean chlorine). let it sit for about 12hrs wet with solution then flush with clean water to remove any traces of the chlorine. Allow it to dry and air out any chlorine that may remain.
Then plant a rooted clone and begin feeding with GH3 for 4 weeks (need to allow for salt build-up) then begin adding in microbes for 1 week so that it has time to get established before cutting off the GH3. Continue to grow for 3 more weeks to see if the microbes are able to pick up where the GH3 left off. This will test to see if the build-up is toxic to the microbes or interferes with their chelation activity. If the plants continue to thrive then microbes survived the chem nutes.
The next container you would not eliminate the microbes and add the new microbes at the same time as planting the rooted clone. At the same time, add standard amounts of GH3 nutes to the soil and veg for 4 weeks, feeding normally. At the end of the 4th week stop adding the GH3 and continue to veg without adding anymore microbes for another 3-4 weeks. if the plant continues to thrive then we can say that the microbes are able to work with the plant at the same time that the GH3 is present and is able to continue to chelate the ffof into food.
This can be tested further by making a 3rd container of soilless medium(coco, RW, or hydroton) and giving the clone planted in it the same GH3 nutes at the same levels as the other 2. By comparing the growth of this one to the other 2, you should be able to see if the microbes are adding any extra to the soils or not. If the plants in the soils jump ahead of the soilless plant at the stages when the microbes are present then we can say that they are able to add some benefit while in a chem fert environment..... It could be an interesting experiment if you have the room and time. Just an idea
