I agree it should be done with moderation so nothing will stress them … 
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Now you tell me! 
I am the king of stressing. Thanks to a combination of shear stupidity, and a bad case of GWS (Growing While Stoned), I have managed to severely dry out my roots several times on each grow. For soil, the drought stressing I have done would be equivalent to at least a week without watering. Im talking major root die back each time. Makes me wonder what might happen if I didnt stress my babies as much? 
On the other hand, maybe the stress is contributing to the yields. @Northern_Loki posted a research paper a while back claiming the drought stress increased yields. Maybe I was doing the right thing all along!
EDIT: @Mr.Sparkle comment about training and pruning tending to stunt the plants makes sense. All the different training techniques stimulate new growth stems and stops the apical growth. Where the plant had one stem to grow initially, after training it will have several to grow at the same time. Vertical growth would have to slow down while all that new side growth takes over. Im not sure thats a bad thing at all though. Your trained plant may be shorter, but you will have many extra colas budding up to replace the few you had before. Extra colas extra yield - I think.
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Well if the plant is rocking, even harsh training they respond quick, it just if they aren’t or have some issues then doing any training doesn’t help.
But yeah longer autos are more apt to training techniques just cause they have more time to respond, but topping/fim-ing if done early enough doesn’t even slow them down, sure splits that energy but you use that to suit your needs.
Also why flopping is my preferred training technique, keeps the apex shoot intact, but causes the side shoots to take over for awhile allowing the plant to level out persay.
Really so long as the plants are healthy most training techniques won’t affect them, apart from harsh defoliation just cause they only have so much time to regrow some leaves.
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My personal mind model of this is basically our LST/HST are taking advantage of several ‘disaster response’ sub-routines embedded in the plant. These are embedded at a really low level, everybody gets ‘a copy’ (not all copies are equal).
The photo period has an adjustable veg cycle. The autos are on a ‘wind-up timer’.
Anyway, a work in progress…
Cheers
G
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Good analogy G.
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Lets see if I can rebuild this shit!!
Damn! - that was a funny cross post Fk up!
and a 1 and a 2… (a F.I. I’m going for a bowl 1st)
REBOOT
May 10 ‘macros’
May 13 macros
Day 57
observed thru 20x
50% + cloud
“Scope analysis”
70 - 90% cloudy
25 - 5 % clear
0 to 5% Amber
Yeah, it doesn’t add up quite… I’m stoned 
Cheers
G
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I did wonder when I saw it in the covid thread late last night lol.
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Yup! Dropped a steaming pile that time!!
Trying to get something done while tired, 'cause I’d forget about it by morning…
Cheers
G
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There be 20 characters etc.
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Fantastic thread. Great pics, info and your work area is super clean. Like mr sparkle clean. Love it! 
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Well thanks for the kind words @Mongobongo! How’s things going at ‘The Hub of the Kawarthas’?
@Mr.Sparkle sets a rather ‘high bar’ for workmanship standards (checkout the alignment of his seedlings…)
My tent is reasonably shipshape but the rest of my work area would be kindly described as ‘functionally cluttered’.
Cheers
G
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Thought of the Day
OK, I spent some time reading up on Tissue Cultures today & after processing that info (and smoking a bowl & a magic chocolate)…
I can see a time where you place an order for literally whatever you can imagine and have the viable plant in your hand a month later. Oh Yeah, all robotic processing (mostly)
Damn! What’s in this shit?
Cheers
G
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Now read up on artificial seeds. 
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Wait … Wut??
Damn, what am I smoking?
Cheers
G
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You guys are behind the times. We are going to have organic printers one of these days. All you need is the data file for what ever it is and a few basic ingredients, and then you just print it out - our seeds, whole plants, or a cheese burger, with or without fries, plus the milkshake, and it will even print the napkins for you.
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Not as fast and flashy as the food synthesizer on Star Trek but they are not far off printing a cheeseburger right now.
The 3D medical printing applications are cutting-edge currently
Cheers
G
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I wouldn’t complain if the printer just made rosin at 40% or a brick of red leb hash .
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Hola Gpaw I run out of like
I will just mark it so I can read it all later
will be back
Bare
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Here’s some selected pics from May12 thru May18
Almost ready!!
This filter mod seems to highlight amber vs cloudy trichomes
Doc 2 is coming down tomorrow
followed in a couple days by Doc 3 and a couple more days Doc 1
I will do a a preliminary plant/grow report shortly.
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Looking dope, great colours!
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