First grow

Pretty easy week. Just had to keep up with LST on the plants. I had to keep constantly tucking leaves and adjusting ties, but it was pretty simple. The canopy isn't perfectly level, but at the end of week 5, it's pretty close and the branches have just reached the edge of their pots. The branch that I was trying to reflect light on and bring out on the Candy Kush at the end of last week finally got clipped. It just wasn't growing fast enough and Candy Kush already has 8 strong branches. I'm feeling pretty good about this week. The plan is to flip some time next week, possibly as early as Monday depending on how fast they recover from this most recent round of LST. If anyone has any tips regarding when to best flip to flower on an LST'd plant like this, I'd love to hear it. Defoliation, too. Yes? No? How much and where?