Day 15: All plants are showing excellent vigor and healthy green leaf color. Zero signs of nutrient burn or stress after the first light feeding. Leaves are perky and showing great turgor pressure. Feeding & Watering Strategy: - First mild feeding applied at Day 14. - Water used: Lauretana (very low mineral composition, ph 6.3). - Nutrients: RQS Easy Grow Tablets (30% strength) + RQS Easy Plus Micronutrients (30% strength) to rebalance Ca/Mg profile. - Next watering will be pure water only to ensure no salt buildup in the fabric pots. Genetics update: - Atlas seeds showing high vigor and larger canopy expansion. - Royal Jack following with steady, healthy vegetative development. The little one is also growing very well I also started LST on the two AtlasF1 Day 16: After starting LST on the two Atlas yesterday, I checked the ties again today and eased them a little. The main stems are still bent gently with the green wire and show no cracks. Both plants look healthy: firm green leaves, no tip burn from the Day 14 feed, and side shoots filling in along the nodes. I'll keep easing the wire every day or two in the same direction so the canopy stays flat, and I'll stop once the first pistils appear. Day 17: Top soil was dry, so the three larger plants got plain water ph 6.3 today no nutrients. Climate is on target: 26 °C and 60% RH. I raised the light dimmer to 55–60% at about 38–40 cm above the tops, based on my mid-veg schedule for days 15–21. The two Atlas are responding well to LST: open canopy, side shoots climbing, green leaves, and still no tip burn from the Day 14 feed(a note below about feeding schedule). The established Royal Jack is still smaller than the Atlas but looks healthy and is catching up. The replacement Royal Jack now has its first true leaves, with a bit of light mottling on the cotyledons. I'm leaving the bottle off for stretches of the day and giving it only plain water around the stem Next Easy Grow plus Easy Plus feed is around day 19–20, still at a low dose. **Quick correction to Day 14** Last week I wrote that one Easy Grow tablet (3 g) is for 10 L of water that was wrong and I now realized I spent 4 years believing so. The label is 1 tablet in 3–5 L. So full strength is about 0.6–1.0 g per litre, not 0.3 g/L. The 0.06 g I mixed into 0.7 L was only about 9–14% of real full strength, not the 30% I thought. Next feeds I'll dose against the 3–5 L range. At the next watering, I will also start applying BiggerFlowers at 0.2 ml/l. Day 18: No watering today(besides for the little one that got 75ml of water ph 6.3), since the pots were still moist from yesterday. The two Atlas are really opening up with LST: lots of side shoots climbing toward the light, firm green leaves, and still no tip burn. The Royal Jack is wired down too and starting to take shape. The replacement now has two sets of true leaves, clean and healthy, with no sign of yesterday's light mottling. The light stays at 55–60% at 38–40 cm. The next feed is planned for when the top soil dries, probably tomorrow : Easy Grow plus Bigger Flowers, both at a low dose. Day 19: No watering today either. The soil isn't wet anymore, but it's still a little moist, so I'll wait until tomorrow and let the roots get some oxygen. I readjusted the LST wires on the plants to keep the canopy flat. Everything looks good: healthy green leaves and steady **THE IMPORTANCE OF LETTING THE SOIL DRY** A lot of people think plants need water all the time, so they end up overwatering. I have a friend who still doesn't get why letting the soil dry out matters, and he never managed to grow a single healthy plant through to the end. He also overfed his plants a lot, then quit growing, saying his setup wasn't good enough. It wasn't the setup: which was an “honest” se tup. So this one's for anyone new here: LET YOUR SOUL DRY, and don't overfeed your plants, especially autoflowers! Roots need oxygen just as much as they need water. As the pot drains and dries out, air gets drawn back into the soil, so the roots can breathe and spread out looking for moisture. That's what builds a bigger, stronger root system. When the soil stays wet all the time, the roots sit without oxygen, growth slows, the leaves droop, and you're inviting root rot and fungus gnats. Day 20: Second feed today, a full liter at pH 6.2 with 0.7 g Easy Grow, 0.2 g Easy Plus, 1 ml Bigger Flowers, 4 g Trichoderma and a single drop of Supervit. That's a clear step up from the first feed, which was only around 14% of full strength. I want the plants well fed before the stretch starts, and the Easy Boost in the soil releases slowly, so I'm keeping an eye on the leaf tips over the next few days. The two Atlas are flat and full of side shoots with an even green, the Royal Jack is smaller but healthy and wired, and the replacement is growing slowly with new true leaves. Light is still at 55–60% at 38–40 cm. Day 21: First pre-flowers showing today. The macro shows the first white pistils at the nodes on the Royal Jack, and possibly a few on the Atlas too. They're only just starting, so I'm treating it as the beginning of the transition. The two Atlas are flat and bushy thanks to LST, with lots of side shoots and an even green. There's no tip burn after yesterday's strong feed, which was a full liter at pH 6.2. I'm done with heavy bending now: the wires stay in place, but no new training on the plants that are starting to flower. The replacement is growing steadily with a lively green. Light remains at 55–60% at 38–40 cm. Beginning tomorrow, I will increase the level gradually toward 70–80%, and the following feed will combine a required dose at 50% growth nutrients with 10–15% flowering nutrients.