And to add to what these guys said to you. If you want to avoid bloat the single best way is to stay hydrated. Shorts or longs won't matter if you aren't drinking lots of water. I like Vitamin C as well.

Well first off you don't need I run short esters to stay lean an avoid bloat. The difference will be marginal at best and probally only noticeable in the final stages of contest prep Diet and drug selections are gonna keep you lean an dry. I've seen some guys dry and lean on high test and deca ( Viking our old beloved moderator). So diets gonna be key. Then next you'll obviously hold more water running deca then eq, of dbol insted of var etc. so if you like long esters stick with it .

I don't really understand why your plan is to run two cycles? Idk about you but my future cycle plans change frequently depending on how the first/current one goes. So my suggestion to you is pick your goal and plan a cycle that is geared towards those goal. If you wanna give short esters a shot go for it. But depending on the brewer prop can be awfully painful and your muscles don't reall every get use to it like virgin muscles and long esters. So just think about the possibility of having bad pip from every shot and pinning eod. Or you find a great source and it's near painless. Ive had both. But prop solo would be a good cutting cycle. I would say add proviron it will make for a great cutter and the proviron will add a mild androgenic component to the cycle keeping you dryer more vascular harder and also free up a lot of bound testostrone.