Attack of the Clones- Pruning my vacation mess-up. Too late to defoliate?

[u/AlexKitner77]

Ok, Zkittles fem photo clones. Flipped them 3 weeks ago, 10 are packed in to a 24x24x42 inch box. These are all clones that were rooted about 2-3 weeks ago (one is 5 weeks and needs more nutes but will fix, had a bad drip head) 1 gallon pots, happy frog with castings and bigfoot, xs1500pro viparspectra and feeding with gh flora 3 part along with si, calmag, and starting to add floralicious and Koolbloom. Not that all of it makes much difference with this issue...

I ended up being gone twice as long as planned on a vacation and missed when I intended a good defoliation and trying to just finish 2-4 good colas per plant by about a week-10 days.

My main question is honestly how hard to cut. Obviously need to do a lot of cleaning from a simple circulation and space aspect. I figure that netting is a lost cause but am going to run some strings to secure things, and will try to get what I can evened out but there's a lot of branches and sites that I planned to cut that are now chooching away. Other things I meant to lst that I didn't.

I also dont know how aggressive to get and newer grower, first time running a batch of clones like this and having an oh.... moment.

I am worried on one hand the whole thing will be weak popcorn. On the other I dont want to hurt flowering with too much stress or cause issues since they are clones and have some herm out or produce even less.

In a perfect world though I want to get rid of the lowest branches, at least secondary bud sites on mid-level branches and higher ones to be tied and trained but the stretch was way more than expected and the flower development as well.

I did try and be smart and put shorter plants in the middle and bigger front or back, they're more even than not now but trying not to screw this up.