Carinia-
Let me know how it goes with extending the darkness at the end of your harvest. I usually lenghthing the darkness period during the last week to speed things up. I've never tried the complete darkness prior to flowering.

With all the different experiements I have done, Lolipoppiong or pruning has proved amazing results on my part. Secondly, you are absolutely right about the stress during flowering, however, I wasn't clear about the timing of removing bottom growth. I pruned right before I changed the light regiment to 12/12.

As far as removing SOME of the fan leaves during the end of their cycle, I try to promote more resin growth and causing a little stress and the end seems to let the girls focus on protecting itself. The girls literally look like they have been rolled in sugar! So Yummy!.....:thumbsup: