Gorilla Cookies Auto (First ever grow)

Day 29 (11/25): lots of new growth. I lowered my RH to around 55-60%. Still running an 18/6 schedule. Not sure if I'm 100% in the flowering stage but I think I'm pretty close if not. Lots of white hairs. The plants seemed to do really well with the nute feeding last night. I upped it from 1mL per gallon to 2.5mL per gallon. Also my lights are sitting around 18 inches away. Day 30 (11/26): I just bent over my main stalk to give some light to the lower bud sites. I just did some Defoliation to give some better airflow and light to the bottom bud sites. You see people who do defoliating and those who don't. We will see if it helps or hurts the plant in the following days. Also noticed my pots are getting dry. I will check them again tomorrow night and possibly do a plain watering. The pots are getting dry much faster now. Day 31 (11/27): I've already noticed new growth after doing the Defoliation. It didn't slow them down a bit. (11/27) 4:30pm. Just watered plants again. 0.5 gallons per plant usually gives me 10 percent run off. I might start watering more on my plain water feedings to help flush out some of the nutes from the previous feeding. Don't want them to build up in the soil. (11/27): just did more LST. Tied down every branch I could. I can definitely tell how there is much more light getting to all areas of the plant. However, the outside bud sites are getting a lot less ppfd. So I might eventually adjust the light again lower to give better light to all areas. Right now I'm going to wait a couple days and see how they grow. Day 32 (11/28): Definitely seeing a lot of the empty space growing in after doing lst. Everything looks to be going great. Day 33 (11/29): just fed nutes to the plants again. This time I used 5mL of the micro and 10 mL of the bloom. I left out the calmag this time. Total water used for both plants combined was 1.125 gallons. Or 1 gal plus 2 cups of water. I used the extra 2 cups of water to bring my ph up. We will see how they react to the much larger dose this time. Basically following the lucas method to an extent. 1 part micro 2 parts bloom. Day 34 (11/30): plants are looking good so far after their nute feeding last night. Day 35 (12/1): growth is slower right now. I'm sure I could have stressed them out when I did the lst and defoliating. I'm hoping to see them stretch pretty good in the next couple weeks but we will see. They still appear to be really healthy and I can tell things are progressing, just kinda slowly.