That's a feeling, not a fact. But strong feelings are hard to give up, just ask some one struggling with an impending divorce who knows in their head they need to get out but in their heart they want to stay. It's human nature, you'll see a lot of psychological dynamics at play in cannabis forums.
As I've explained previously I've grown outdoors as much as indoors and its been my experience that lower buds do not usually develop like the fat colas at the top. Not because they don't get plenty of light which they do, but because of the influence of apical dominance, NOT LIGHT LEVELS. A seasoned gardener, one who has grown all kinds of plant material for at least 10 years, understands this, while an inexperienced gardener doesn't thru no fault of their own. It's all about plant resources including water and nutes uptake. The upper part of the plant gets most of the goodies just as nature intended it to be. Why do you think the lower fan leaves yellow and die off when you deprive your plants of sufficient N, especially during the flowering response? That's right, because the plant will sacrifice metabolites found at those lower levels in the plant tissue, N is one, to nourish the upper parts of the plant. N is a mobile element.
Which takes me to the lame practice of lollipopping. 99% of those practicing it can't retain leaves at lower levels so they do the "sour grapes" drill. I do retain lower leaves and as an example, I'll post photos of very crowded plants which are flowering very nicely at lower levels, in spite of the "shade". Look at the flowering response on the first plant. These are large plants, as I do SOB type growing (sea of bush).
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