Critical purple

Hey Gteh420, Sgtoso is right, the newer growth is actually pre flower actually, so it's a good sign. should look like that before flowering, nothing to worry about. To induce flowering, keep the lights, or use both lights, cut out the veg nutes and switch to bloom nutrients, and use 10ml of molasses in your next feed, hopefully the nutrients will kickstart flowering. If they dont then change the light schedule, sometimes autos are not autos , it's rare but it does happen every now and then. You're seeing pre flowering so hopefully that's not your case and you can maintain the auto's light schedule. I would be careful using less light wattage as this might stress the plant and lead to hermie. Hope this helps ! 🚀

You already have fairly defoliate the lady you switch 2 weeks ago and she will probably stop to stretch soon so except if the lower leaves are blocking light there is no need to remove them and no need to defoliate more than that as she's not going to bounce back each time as her life time is limited by the auto genes. Let her start her flowering 😊