Completed RQS Northern Lights Auto - Aurora - Lighting Fail

Pistils!!!

Tiny pistils are making their appearance.. I would have liked a few more days recovery after topping so I can do a little defo before flowering stage but well..

Using the advice I received from various AFN legends, I let the soil dry, but only until I saw the plant starting to get slightly floppy, so as not to give too much chance of creating dry pockets of soil. Then I weighed the pouch and used that as my base weight.

Bit of weird stuff happened yesterday, as the 2nd set of fan leaves from the top started dancing like, facing sideways, but proper perpendicular to the floor, and then get back to normal... then again!?! then back to normal... I learned to be not too reactive and think before acting...so..
Did a little research on what it could be, but tbh the replies were as of supposed experienced growers (out of AFN obv haha) very fishy.. So I decided to raise back the lights a bit.. And no more dancing.

I don't want to experience more than one new form of training per grow, so as I started with defoliation last grow, and topping with this one, I'll leave LST for next time (yeah I know usually it's "advised" for inexperienced growers to try LST first. But I still try to wrap my head around this technique..

I will soon switch to blooming mode on my lights, top up a bit of soil and add a bit of Easy Boost to get big buds hopefully, now that I got nice bud sites.