On first feed of the week, I will be doing massive defoliation to give all bud sites some access to light and air. This will coincide with this week's first watering on 08/05 (probably).
Other than that, I hope we are done with the stretch as I only have 4 inches left to raise the lamp. At this point, if the stretch still goes on I will leave them closer than 18-20 inches and see what happens. Not like I can do much anyway.
09/05
After letting the soil dry a bit too much, the plant was stressed after watering (clawing up/heat stress). I did the defoliation on the following day when the plant looked better and the results look great.