Blue Dreamin' in the South

Fed slightly heavy on this week and found some clawing and nute burn on new leaves. I went ahead and flushed after 2 days and got the PPMs back down to an acceptable level. Plants have recovered and are fine. I have also been defoliating now almost every 3 days, keeping fan leaves cleared from covering the tops of the smaller bud sights that need to catch up on their height. I've taken off all the plastic LST clips and am now using a plant wire that is covered in soft rubber to train the branches down. All canopies are much more even in growth and height at this point and I have currently 10-12 colas on each plant. I'm going to keep them at these many colas for the remainder of their growth, so I won't be doing any more topping/FIMing at all. Now I will keep them in this same current cycle for at least another week and feed them 1 more time with nutes and twice with RO water, the 2nd time at a good flush prior to putting them into their flowering cycle. If they do not have enough height growth after this 5th week's end I might keep them in flower for 6 weeks. I really want to make sure that I have at minimum 10 healthy colas that will have plenty of room for light/air and get them around 16" tall prior to flipping to flower so that I can hopefully get their height around 5' tall at the end.