4 Assed Monkey, 5x5, Coco, 480w QB SCROG

Hope you are doing well, I had to leave for 4 days for a work trip and I was freaking out a little bit since I really like taking extra good care of these girls. I ended up mixing 16 Gal of Week 8 nutrients for my girlfriend to water 2x a day, once at 8AM and once at 8PM. I had measured and set 4 of the buckets up for her and she has seen me water many of times and she helped out greatly so thank you. It is sometimes very difficult to water under a tightly packed scrog I must say. Right when I got home and watered the plants, I noticed that there was a bit of the nute solution left and I measured the pH and it was at 6.8.... which means, and I don't know how, but the pH went up a whole number from the time I left and time I got back. It is what it is and I needed to correct this before it did any lasting damage. I quickly started up Week 9 of the feed which changed the ratio and made sure to give extra runoff to try and remove any salt buildup and properly recharge the coco with the pH 5.8 mix. Things look to be going very well. I do regret not defoliating and removing lower branches more than I did (and I felt I did a lot). I don't want to cut too much the last couple weeks but some of the very low ends that receive no light I have removed at the base. Thank's for following along!