it's probably extremely wise to have an emergency "take her down NOW" drill that you can practice and refine.
i had a couple of questions i wanted to ask, both are minor points but I was up and reading posts and figured i'd go ahead and ask.
the first you may have answered on your 9 ways thread but i haven't gone through that one yet: what do you think is the best way to get a three or four branched flux plant? two successive tops or a fim? i figured it would be a fim, because if it did result in a multi-branching, they would be roughly the same node level and wouldn't need the degree of downward training that would be needed for the upper branches of a double topped plant. hope that made sense. just didn't know if a fim would result in the vigor of growth for the resulting branches as topping
second, in your early pics, a couple of weeks in, you show your plant surrounded by a layer of perlite (i think it's perlite). is that to impede insects or just extra soil conditioning or what? minor stuff but once the monkey mind gets going, i have to ask to shut it up.
plus, i didn't want to make my 50th on just any thread.
have a great day and a continued great grow, hopefully with no more interlopers.