This is beyond preflower.. this has been in flower for 7-10 days. You've already got tufts of hairs at terminal buds. preflowers are the single calyx per branch that 'can' form in vege phase, if it's long enough, but with autoflowers, pretty much means flower started the moment they started to form - which is a week or so before you can see them clearly.
If new, i'd strongly suggest reacting to what you see, taking notes and use that to form a more proactive feeding schedule next time. You may run into more issues, but you'll better know how to supplement the soil in future grows -- assuming you use the same soil and fertilizers etc...
If this is a soil, there are a bunch of variables that impact fertilizer needs... And, it'll be different for different soils and how they are constituted. One size fits all is great for soilless/hydro but with soil you need to be more adaptable. A feed chart may be a good ballpark to start (some blatantly tell you to verfeed, looking at you fox farm) but it will be different in every garden. Any chart telling you to flush constantly is probably over-feeding needlessly. There are methods just as effective where you don't waste a shit ton of fertilizer and pollute your local aquifer needlessly.
keep it healthy... react to symptoms... take notes. Formulate a schedule that preempts the symptoms next grow... in 2-3 grows should have everything smoothed out.
After that, try to boost this or that and see if it helps or causes toxicities etc... play mad scientist after you learn to grow supremely healthy plants.
Outside, i wouldn't do so much training with an autoflower. May have hurt yield a bit. There is no difference in light intensity from top to bottom like there is indoors. So, just spreading it out is effective enough. Total surface area exposed to the sun is the key. The canopy does not need to be level and doesn't help on its own -- totally fine if it coincidentally happens trying to maximize leaf exposure to sun.
The less stress on your autoflower the better in most cases. Some stress may be able to delay flower and cause a bigger plant to result, but it also probably isn't very consistent or predictable to do so. Unnecessary stress can just as easily flip it to flower earlier than normal too. If a particular behaviour is proven to consistently delay it, that's fine, but not something i'm aware of. Like trips to casinos, you only hear about the good times with anecdote.