are you guy not seeing the pictures(proof)?
Confirmation bias. I presented a example earlier on a different thread.
Basically years ago I declared war on a trench of blackberry bushes a few years ago. I took a chainsaw to them, then rented this machine with a 4 foot disk blade to rip the roots down to 3 feet or so.
It wasnt a few years later that my daughter was back down there picking big lushes blackberries. I could walk right down there and take pictures of the most healthy, fruit producing blackberries you will ever see.
So does this mean that chainsawing healthy BB plants and ripping their roots is a valid technique to growing sweet blackberries?
No it simply means that the blackberry bush is a very prolific plant that can thrive despite being abused. It means that if I had two identical blackberry infestations down there and I abused one of them as I described and left the other to grow, the results could be measured and I doubt anyone would think anything other then the abused plant would be a weaker infestation.
Now that is not to say that there are abuses that can be beneficial. The BB example is quite extreme. Most abuses come with some negative effects that are usually are temporary. Topping for example. The plant has to go through a recovery process prior to any beneficial results being achieved. There is science behind the process and it is used similarly in other sectors of botany along with it being thoroughly testable and verifiable.
That is my litmus test when choosing techniques to use in my own garden. I want to see the science. I want to see the verifiable tests and if they dont exists, I want to see its benefits being used in other botany sectors successfully. So far I have seen none of this. The cannabis growing community is ripe with these kind of voodoo growing techniques. From flavored weed, to extreme flushing to extreme defoliation. And the logic and reasoning behind it is almost always the same, feelings, anecdotal evidence and some company or cannabis celebrity trying to sell their product or brand.
Sorry but I need more then this. I honestly dont care what voodoo quirks you practice in your own garden, I have a few of my own. But if you are going to be spreading these voodoo quirks as legitimate then you need to bring more to the table then some neat pictures of your cannabis. Because cannabis is a prolific plant, that can deal with some serious stresses and still produce a quality harvest in spite of our misguided efforts. And inevitably some newb grower will come along and chop the shit out of his plant to failure or spread this "knowledge" to other botanical communities furthering the ridicule the cannabis growing community already has to endure. I mean how many times do we have to endure the blowback from someone asking what flavor of Kool-Aide is best for their flavored "tomatoes". Its embarrassing.
So I dont have a clear side to this issue, even though I definitely lean to the NAY side. I would love some real evidence for the pro side, but I have yet to see anything of real value(again, your pictures might be impressive, but they are not evidence of anything).