Zandor your right man i did that exact same thing using String to Tie shit down will get the same sprouting results as FIM but you Get hella more. when your trimmiing like that you know what your doing you stoping the roots from feeding that area and the sourouning leaf sprouts in that location will use the roots that were feeding the one you cut and power feed the reaming. Well if you tie a branch down it takes the ^UP^ motion of the way the plant feeds and makes it go side ways thus slowing it down that extra flow will in turn rush food to your other sourounding sprouts just the same. the more plant the more Roots and when your plant buds it no longer grows roots and what roots you have grown are what make your buds. Thus more rootage more buddage all the stems suported by the STRING are makeing the steam not have to be as THICK so supost massave buds. So instead of lets say 6 tops and 70% roots into buds groth factor and 30% of the roots would have to supost the 6 massave stims. Well Zandor and my way makes it have 30 Tops 90% of roots are bud powered and the 10% of roots energy required for stem due to suporting strings AND more root groth due to more top due to NOT FIM.