LA Cookies and Chem Cookies

Not much has changed this week but the colors. Leaves are getting drained of life in Wk9 but after 2 runs that were chopped too soon (amongst other things) I'm wondering if my lights are maybe 6in too high. My guru/mentor-without-knowing-it says "raise them up as high as you can and never move them, just dial it in" but I"m only working with 480w here and after removing my inline fan for space they're over 20" away, maybe 24. If you know, please just leave a comment. The plan is to lower them by 6" next run, and keep the same plan for turning them up. I'm unhappy with anything but cross-eyed couch-locked weed so that may be part of needing 9-10 weeks but next run, as dialed in as I am, should definitively nail down what's the best hanging distance. You know, you go into this thinking "soil, water, sunshine- how hard could it be?" and a year later, if you don't give up, you can't believe how much trial and error is involved in figuring out about 20 critical variables - from how much and how often to water, what medium, what temps, when to chop, light strength- holy hell what a long 2 years it's been. One more thing- Cali Connection has proven itself more than worthy with this grow. Yes, I'm a growing genius (no, I'm not) but these LAC have been as big and hairy (in a good way), fat and frosty (not the frostiest but frosty) as anything I've grown. Only topped 1-2 times for about 6-8 donkey dong colas, so I might try more topping to get more dongs next time. Stay tuned for the smoke report- Grow Diaries is FULL of descriptions about "floral" and "citrus" and "gas" and WAY TOO LITTLE about "it f'd me up in the head for 2 hours" or "similar to Blue Dream," etc. Thanks for visiting and good luck out there! Just Sweet this week, but with such extreme fading when I want to push them another 10 days, I wish I'd fed a little more in Week 8 (not sure I fed at all in fact). Should be fine. The tricky part is leaving for vacation in 10 days and wondering if I should chop and leave, or let them go (maybe turn the light off for a week, water them up to the rim, and come back ready to chop?). I'll ask in the "questions" if you have an opinion. 👊😤