Quote Originally Posted by darealbrain
if a plant or clone will only grow according to its dna what makes them adapt?
i that that it was stress.
isnt it possible to grow in many many styles all the result of stress?
topping,lst,supercropping,sea of green,hdro,etc
Now thats getting a little too deep for me.

I would think that a plant or a clone would be able to adapt to several different forms of stress wether it from one end of the strain spectrum to the other. All plants have an ability to cope with or even rise above the obstacles that nature throws at them, some plant strains are just more capable of surviving individual stresses than other strains would be and vice versa. Not all strains/plants can survive the exact same stress as another plants from a different strain.

And, yes. Many forms of pruning or training can stress plants and yes, the plants can still thrive through it. I wouldnt know which is which, Im not that knowledgable on this, but Im sure that some strains of cannabis grow better than others under one form or another of stress training or pruning.