hey there, a short vegetation is like 5-6 weeks, an average veg is 6-9 weeks... that's because there's plenty of action happening in veg that happens after the 5-6 week mark, like a vegetative stretch. The main idea is that you want to optimise your veg by allowing that stretch to happen. Do that and you can pull several 100s of grams per plant. Any kind of LST is totally fine, just dont forget to keep going back and fixing it . For watering , i guarantee you one thing : you should not have a formula for it otherwise you'll have problems. the pot dries at different speeds, you really do want to find a better way to respond to the plant. The most important part of the wet dry cycle is the dry part, you really need this to be correct . Hope this helps 🚀