Thanks so much for that info Yoshi. My thoughts regarding removing the tie downs was that maybe they were not needed anymore and the plants would stay down on their own. At some point I think I’ll have to go the other way and put in supports to hold them up once the flowers gain weight so I was thinking that might be easier if the tie downs were out of the way.
Regarding reducing the light, I might try that. Am I correct that reducing the light wouldn’t change the end product much but just make it happen a couple of weeks sooner?