I've always grown sativas (2y) because I like them but i'm about to start with indicas next grow season coz I feel i'm not getting the most of it coz of the lighting. They stretch too much and I end up cutting the side branches all the times coz they won't get enough light. I do top once at the 5 or 7th node (I know it "should" be less but I like this way) and if I top again each end - 4 counting with the next 2 lower nodes before the 2 main ones - it will need more veg time to develop or else it won't develop good enough in flowering stage to have thick buds.
I've once forced flower at 3 weeks a critical + and it went out sweet giving 20grams of good bud but normally I veg for 1,5 / 2 months and the flower forcing is too space consuming in height.
With 400w hps and a 1,5 meter plants too much lower/side branches go to the bin of "low potency" crop. It's a big waste i'm about to give up to Indicas. With indicas all of the plant seems to take great light. We'll see then. Ah another thing is the smell - I had one unknown indica and it smelled pretty bad and I said no more to that so probably another reason I continued with sativas.
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Any PERSONAL advice (not on what those marketing seedbanks description sites say - that I can read myself thx) on neutral smell indicas would be nice.
Btw if you care to reply and thx in advance for that the only sites I buy from https://www.lamota.org/lamota/index.asp and Kayagrowshops | GROW SHOP ONLINE Not pub. definitely but if i'm happy with them why should I change? I always clone 1time from mother (seed) and end up at least with 3 to 6 clones to bud so I don't need to buy seeds that many times. 2 times a year I think. Cheers.