Replenish the ewc after each run. Favor the high side when adding it. After my 2nd run I added 60 lbs if ewc. After this last grow (bubba and strawberry cough) I only added 15 lbs and noticed a big difference. My current batch has another 30 lbs. The clones that go in the soil in a few weeks will be stellar!
But if you have almost perfect plants, why would you wanna learn anything else? That, my friend, makes absolutely no sense whatsoever! We've done all the trial and error for you bro! You cannot do what we do in our "seasoned" soil, with new soil! Bottom line
I look at these other guys, too, and then look at mine ... 
The directions aren't usually where things go wrong. It's usually just some mysterious soil issue which almost always resolves itself if you leave it alone. In my experience, even if it doesn't, you're still better off not messing with things. With a good EC meter and a soil test kit, you could accomplish something useful. Otherwise, you're shooting craps.
Hey, I get all sorts of problems with the Kit!
But I also get the boredom, cause it really doesn't matter. Even when you screw it up, you get great produce.
If the soil was mixed and cooked correctly, and the roots are properly inoculated, the Kit runs itself.
Beauty buds man. Hope mine look something like that in a few weeks!
Re: ewc
My current grow (first run DBHBB soil) is on soil that is on the low end of the range in the instructions. The kit calls for 20-40 lb ewc. I put 10 lb in half the kit, and didn't add any when I topdressed with recharge. Just another reference point. I wonder who else is running on the low side, ewc-wise.
I really like the idea of keeping the soil lean. Makes trouble-shooting easier, and it seems like the plants oughta be more responsive to the inputs we control, when they're running with just enough of the stuff they need and no more.
Anyhow keep it up! You've got a great crop coming in from shed run #1, and knowing that you have specific things to do next round has gotta make you feel good moving forward.
Cheers!
Glad you got the kit you wont be disappointed, welcome to the pot snob club 
I put the normal amount of EWC in for first run and top dress it with the recharge but when I recycle I only add maybe 1/4 of the original amount of EWC at most. I used to add the full amount each recycle and ran into issues around round 3 and it seemed like the soil was just over loaded with worm poop to the point where it affected it in a negative way and I scrapped it after that.
I'm not sure running EWC lean will be beneficial to trouble shooting, the directions work and it's easiest to help trouble shoot the less you deviate from them esp for things like mixing and cooking the soil. The amount in the directions will not harm your plants as long as you cook the soil properly. Just my two
Edit just realized you are already underway, o well no worries. I wouldn't skip the top dress though since you went light on the initial amount
Thanks Smokey!
I think I am following the directions. I put 10 lb EWC in half a bale. Directions call for 20-40 lb in a full bale.
Did Doc update the directions to add a topdress of EWC with the recharge? Thought that was just something some folks are doing.
Cheers!
I would still give it to them if they were mine since you went light on the mix I think it will be beneficial. I have done it before and after CD and before works better IMO. Its good to give the EWC a week or so to get worked in before hitting with the CD which works out to the same time the recharge is due. Second half of CD week and the couple weeks following the buds explode and there is a lot of demand being put on the soil during that time. This is when I first get my Mg deficiencies if I am going to get them also. From now on unless I know the strain wont have Mg problems I am going to give them a Epsom feeding along with the top dress to try and curb that a bit. 
messed around with different filters for my "flash" today..card stock, 1 sheet white paper, 2 sheet. 1 sheet best results I think so far.
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The next 2 pics aren't upside down, I've got some dongers.
I wonder how long this "8" week strain will go on 11/13 in the kit?!
Buds look great! My guess is 8 weeks 9 if you like them on the long end. The kit tends to add a week and the shorter cycle tends to remove one in my experience
Using glr in veg and 11/13 in flower makes em finish faster. Well, that and giving the cat drenches earlier than normal
I think I'd be smoking that "8 week" right about now.
