i think were on the same page imo cause i thought you were saying theres a longer budding process but once you have got higth with your grow stage ( thats where it might take longer growing process ) but yeah you really need to get hydro because i can seriously get around 1 inch of groth on my tops a day if not 2 when power feeding. Yes that pic does have strings holding em helping the buds stay up, or im shure a few would be drooping quite low due to weight :smokin: and no never heard of that.... altho if your talking root stimulant i use a root groth formula on my own to accerlate them also( hydro grows so much faster)