Afghan Auto Flower - Auto Pot

This week had a few things go wrong :| The first, I had to do a legit defoliation, as some of the inner kola's were being blocked from light and going yellow. Then recovery process got interrupted when the PH go swung down to 5.8 when the res was full and I did not notice for 8hrs :| So they had been defoliated then couldn't grab up the P while absorbing more light over less leaves.... Then the res got blocked (there is a small filter in there, which technically did its job) but I also noticed 12 hrs. after that they hadn't had any water for about a day. They are drinking about 2.5L a day, so this hurt. They will recover, they still have time. I am just hoping its not going to be a huge impact to the result. At this phase I wanted my PH to be at 6.5. -> So that it's in the fat-band region of Absorption. I have it dialed into that range now. I will keep it at 6.5 for the rest of this week. **UPDATE** I had to defoliate, there are sections on the plants that were not getting light and air. I didn't want to defoliate this far into flower, but it was required.