For starts, I intend to grow healthy good looking plants, meaning, plants with excellent, robust leaf and root systems, lots of mass. Bud production is in the noise zone. It will come if you concentrate on the right STUFF culturally and botanically.
I may have mentioned this already but ALL plant material…am talking cannabis, fruit trees, grapes, legumes, veggies, nut trees…everything, does better when you have a good differential between day time highs and night lows.
I’ve gardened in all kinds of places, the most striking change was when I moved from a very balmy “oven” along the Gulf coast of South Texas to the hill country, the latter being at an elevation of 1,500 to 2,300. Stuff where I am now just grows “twice as fast and twice as big” compared to the “oven” I was living in years ago. Hell, even in June you couldn’t enjoy a cup of coffee outdoors because the heat index was around 95F or so at sunrise!
Bottom line - when you have a limited DIF the plant material tends to burn the carbos it made during the day to the process of respiration as opposed to tissue production. Chlorophyll density, as visually “measured” by sight, me reading my plants, also is enhanced during a period of good DIF.
Speaking of the “noise zone”, worrying about the stretch is also in the noise zone. Deal with it via training, topping, use of PGR’s, choosing pure indicas, etc. Speaking of indicas, there is NO stretch with plants like Deep Chunk which I have and am now finishing out.
Uncle Ben