Quote Originally Posted by growdemon
OMB, ive done what you are suggesting and my results were poor, light & leafy buds, they looked fat and thick, but it wasn't. I did it as an experiment and from what I can tell, is it stunned the flower cycle tremendously because the plant had to heal it self then revert back in to a flower stage all at the same time. so as its healing its also producing buds,, which in turn created leafy buds, aka swag

but it could have been the strain who knows, every plant & grow is different

I also have purple wreck! this shit smells killer!
"Heal?" ...I'm not breaking stems, I'm just bending. They have never shown any "Ill effects" from it, heck, they don't even seem to care! I would never pinch/break a stem in Flower as it would react as you mentioned.
Here's a pic from my first grow, the branches were almost 90 degree's to the Trunk at times...No problems at all. Then again, maybe it has more to do with my strain as far as the size and stem structure.

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