3rd Grow - 3 Plants & Strains

So I mentioned in Week 1 that after reading the Grow Weed Easy e-book I got the idea for CO2, and an automated watering system. <Cue the world's smallest violin> I'm away from home 12-14 hrs a day during the week. I don't have a lot of time during the week to split between my family and my green girls. Time is limited so mixing nutes daily, which is what I have been doing for about 1 year now, is time consuming. I've tried various things to make larger batches. My most recent thing was a 5 gallon mop bucket and mixing the 3 gallons of nutes and then filling up my 1 gallon watering can for each plant. Still time consuming but at least I was out of mixing nutes in 1 gallon water containers and having to ph 3 times. It's decided! Automatic watering system is the way to go. I find everything described in the book. Everything comes separately over the course of 2 weeks and I'm ready to roll as soon as the lights turn on for Sunday, Day 41. The first day of Week 5. I hook it all up. I'm like a man on a mission. I gotta get this done man. My girls gotta eat. I had mixed up 30 gallons of water with my nutrients in a 55 gallon drum before the lights came on and they were staying all mixed up with the separate pump for that, and I got the feeding pump and the hose laid out and I'm ready to test this baby. I turn it on for a few seconds and I'm not getting the coverage that I want to I get down closer to look and WHOOSH! All the stakes with the water hoses come out of all 3 pots. There is water flying everywhere. I'm getting blasted in the face and I'm soaked now. The tent walls are all wet. The girls are all wet. I somehow manage to unplug the pump without getting electrocuted and proceed to clean myself, the tent, but first add most importantly, the girls. As I'm cleaning up the mess I just made I come to a realization. I DON"T need an automated feeding system. (I told you all I was dim upstairs.) But what I can salvage from this bad experiment is the reservoir. I will continue to make larger batches of nutrients. Keep it "churning" with it's own pump. Give it a little extra stir everyday. Check the ph daily. This will save me A LOT of time...or at least distribute my time differently. I'm now going to mix up on the weekend and make enough to get me through 2 weeks for the 3 plants. I also added a touch of Potash to the nutes for this batch. On Friday, Day 46 I decide to FIM all 3 plants again. IMO the outer branches aren't growing fast enough to become tops by the time it comes to change to flower. I'm gonna wind up with 3 dwarf sized Christmas trees again like the Triple Cheese from last grow. No thank you I think you can see the evidence of the "Big Trim" in the under neath angle pictures this week. I now realize that I must have been talking about clearing lower nodes, branches and leaves.