I actually am noticing that the plants need water faster!!! I picked up a pot today and they are super light again !!! so in gonna water them in a few minutes.. it was taking bout a week to dry up the pots and now it was only 4days!! one thing I am stuck on... should I feed them nutes every feeding??? or rotate nutes, water, nutes, water??? I am using the whole foxfarm line up....Personally I leave everything on the plant unless it's dead. She grew em for a reason. Some growers do it, and I've watched so many threads with differing opinions hashing it out lol. It's like bringing up religion or politics. Nobody ever agrees.
For your situation, I wouldn't do anything to those WW except maybe water. From experience, I know that as my plants progress into flowering they require more frequent watering due to more roots and a larger plant. This may be what you're experiencing now.
Another thing you should consider is that every plant grows differently, requires different nutrient strengths and even sometimes prefers different light schedules. I'm not saying you should attempt to accommodate all those things for each plant, but just keep that in mind. Since you saw a positive result from backing off the light, maybe you could put some bricks or something under the plants that like the intense light to get them closer to it, while leaving your WW on the floor further away from the light.