Strawberry Cough - Newbie DWC

I defoliated too much... As you can see, the pruning supervisor called in upper management and I got a stern talking to. So this week, any likes this entry gets means a treat for both the pruning supervisor AND upper management 😜 Toward the end of the week it did start looking a bit better, can still see through the canopy pretty easy though.😞 live and learn, she's still healthy and flowering nicely 😁 Adjusted colors a bit on the photos this weak as my phone edits them too yellow under these lights. Still not great, touch too blue and tops still too yellow in direct light but it's closer to real. Continuing to tweak this in following weeks. Planning on starting the bud porn photos soon! Vertical growth slowed down after the defol, grew ~1" taller per day all week, which is better, I'm running out of headroom. Hope she calms down and switches focus to flower real soon. **Issues** She greened up after switching out the bud-set to flower formula but I never really got that res below ec1.9 and she wanted less. New tips are showing nute and/or light burn... Did a res change with flower formula diluted down to EC1.6 (including the EC0.4 from tap water) at the end of the week, not going to back off lights yet. Should have diluted more right after the defoliation, this week she drank around 70% of what she was before. **Nutes / pH** After a res change the pH goes way up over an hour or two, guessing this is all coming from the rootball, I can usually put pH5.4-5.5 solution in a new res and it'll settle at just shy of 6. Once it settles, pH is still very stable, slight raise after she feeds gets corrected by topping off with ~pH5.8 solution. Thinking I'm going to stop the Silica with the next res change. **Training/Lights** Pruned some branches with the defol, there was just way too much leaning outside or way below the canopy. Top of canopy is pretty varied in height, light is going to be an issue. Gave her a relaxing evening after the defol, rest of the week I had lights ~15" @ 95% power @20% ppfd conversion loss = DLI ~37mol? forgot the ppfd conversion losses in my previous DLI estimates. I have the feeling this pheno would be PERFECT for ScrOG, branches and newer growth have always been super easy to manipulate, if a bit flimsy. I could have filled a 4x4 with maybe another week or two veg. So leggy, if branches don't start thickening up soon I'm going to have to start supporting a lot of growth when she starts packing on flower weight.