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I am down with you man. Some people disagree, of course. After I germinate in peat plug I move into 5 gal bags. I also use a hotsoil method where I use a supersoil in the bottom third with the rest of the pot filled with Ocean Forest. I don't add any perlite or filler to the Ocean Forest, I think if their product needed more perlite they would have put it in their soil. They know more about it than I ever will. In theory everything the plants need comes organically, unless I delayed the flip for long time.See this all the time with autos. Plant them and if you even look at them wrong and they’ll stunt like they did for you.
Autos will flower on their on schedule and certain strains do not deal well with topping. Most will only LST if anything. Odds are you topped right before as it was flipping to flower and it was healing while it was supposed to be stretching.
Also 12 hours for an auto isn’t a lot of sunlight, 14-20 hours is what most recommend.
Also transplanting causes stress which require it to heal. Every minute counts in an auto grow. Most successful auto grows, usually will not transplant and will sow their seeds in the final pots
My last auto I kept the lights on 24/7 with no ill effects but the light bill. I am running a 20/4 schedule on my autos this time.
I topped my autos once and will not again.