Putang Nevil Chem - MMS

06/15/2020: - Watered with 1 gallon of: filtered water, pH 6.3 @74F, 7mL/gal TPS-One, 3mL/gal Silica Gold, 2mL/gal CalMag AOC. - Soil pH: 5.9, 71F. Looks like the soil is running on the acidic side! - Cut off the 4 biggest/oldest fan leaves. 06/17/20: Saw 2 bugs on top of different leaves, nothing under or anywhere else (the diagnostic and reasoning is at the end of this week's comment!) 06/18/2020: - Watered with 1 gallon of: filtered water, pH 6.7 @82F, 7mL/gal TPS-One, 3mL/gal Silica Gold, 2mL/gal CalMag AOC. She was fed a higher pH'd solution to try and re-balance the soil pH, hopefully 6.7 will be high enough to put the soil's pH back to ~6.3. 06/19/2020: - Removed a few more of the big leaves to allow more light to reach the newer growth. 06/20/2020: - Swapped her position with the Putang Nevil Chem so she's directly under the Royal Blue Veg puck, maybe she'll start stretching a bit. 06/21/2020: Got the soil pH back to 6.3 thank to last feeding's pH adjustment! - Watered with 1 gallon of: filtered water, pH 6.3 @82F, 7mL/gal TPS-One, 3mL/gal Silica Gold, 2mL/gal CalMag AOC. I didn't notice much runoff so I'll probably need to increase the amount of water in the next couple feedings. - Soil pH: 6.3, 76F. - HST on the 6 top cola sites to bend them down and give a chance for the rest of the growth to catch up (looking to have nice and flat canopy). - Ended up snapping one of those bends later during the day, I made the mistake of not softening up the stem's outer shell with my fingers before bending her... But it should be all good, she got taped up and a splint provides support. About them bugs, I asked around and did a ton of research. I ended up finding a few possible choices: -root aphids (I really doubt it, the shape is quite different) -spider mites (I haven't seen any under the leaves, they chill out mostly in the soil and sometimes on the main stem) -Stratiolaelaps, or hypoaspis miles (This is likely the answer, the shape is pretty similar and from what I've been reading, a few soil manufacturers add these beneficial insect to hunt fungus gnats). I'm just gonna keep an eye on it and not worry about it too much, I wouldn't want to potentially damage or shock my plants using IPM for beneficial mites.