Hardon...I like the theory....can you side by side?

Isolate a branch....pull the pistils from the upper-most bud sites....and then again further down the branch...leaving an untouched bunch of flowers in between the two sites you trim. And then maybe utilize that whiskey and molases concoction of your's and see if that surge of growth you attribute to your home brewed additive kicks in to help the process.

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Who buys mj on the amount of 'hairs' they see? Unless a person knows what strains have anything other than the typical brownish/orangish hairs...as well as the grower may have made a heap-o-hash for themself...the presence of hairs is fairly well just an indicator that the grower took care with the grow.

The rules of thumb are....observe the bouquet...and then look for the white, fuzzy indicators that indicate the presence of dried trichomes.