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What you are giving is about right, you want the water to go deep and also wide around the plant to encourage the roots to also grow deep and wide, as obviously roots will not grow in to dry soil. Giving just small amounts of water near the stem only encourages a weak and shallow root system. Think about what happens in nature when it rains, water goes everywhere, not just next to the plant and if there is good rains, the water gets down deep, and it is the same when growing in pots, water wide and deep. Also, in nature it will generally stop raining and there will be some time before the next rain, so it is with plants in pots, you must wait until the top 2-3cm is dry before watering again. Watering too often and having a constantly moist soil surface layer is what causes "damping off" and whereby the stem rots. Damping off is not caused by watering deep and wide. Just make sure the soil dries out a bit between waterings and you should have no problems. Once your plant becomes established and is growing vigorously, watering to run off, that is, water coming out of the bottom of the pot, will be necessary, as it is the only way to ensure the substrate is moist from top to bottom, as this is where your plants' roots will/should be. It will also help to prevent nutrient salts from the fertilizers building up to toxic levels in the substrate and burning your plant. Hope this helps, Organoman.

Hi there,Here’s my advice for you to perform LST.First,Start bending your main stem in one direction,as parallel as possible to the soil.Be careful not to break the stem. Counteract that bend from opposite side.So that your main stem can’t fall off easily and accidentally.Then continue on doing that as the main stem growing taller.Do the same to the other branches and spread the branches to side way.Don’t worry if the leaves touch the soil. It’s normal to touch the soil.You can remove those leaves later on of they are yellow or damaged.Also Next time if you want to perform LST, I would like to advice to you grow the plant a little bit off center.In that way she can get more horizontal spacw for training.Bend the main stem,Spreas the branches,Make an even canopy.Good luck and happy growing... ✌️

Yes you can switch. Well I don't switch I just start adding a bloom booster to my base nutrition. Good luck

I grow a lot of autos. I would lst it now and then let it stretch. Should explode in growth now. Add blooming nutrition and watch. This is the point when I have grow monster autos that they choose to grow big. Good luck and happy growing 🌱🌱🌱🤜🤛

Mmm I’m thinking calcium or magnesium deficiency.. hard to say as they kinda overlap sometimes in symptoms.. looks like you’ve got N excess as well by the looks of the darker green shiny leaves in the video - could be wrong about that but that would explain a calcium deficiency. If your foliage does indeed look darker green and glossy almost I might flush or eliminate N heavy nutrients completely. I’m not familiar with the “bio” line up of nutrients to expand on that further, but week 4 of flower you can pretty much cut N completely outta the equation. Good luck 👍