It's crazy what you will end up just grinding up into the hash pile. I just got through about 7lbs and looking at another over the next couple days. There is weed and leaves and twigs in every book and cranny of my house. I will say the bonzai Heros are my personal fucking savior. There are at least twice as fast, more like 3x as fast. Plus they will just turn lard into dust in no time.
Back to the point.. Trimming the understory does NOT reduce yield at all. It increase yield ..usable yield by quite a bit. The reason is that plants are merely balancing production with utilization. The understory ieant price shit for carbs..hello..in the shade...the electric shade. But the plant will out energy into trying to mature those buds. But they won't ever mature or bulk up, that energy could have gone into the upper colas. It's a balancing game that is only learned through time. I had an absolutely banger fucking harvest this run. Unbelievable really. Partly because I harvested all the tops and let the 2nd layer mature. I just had time to do this because I slacked in next round veg
Any way..about the redistribution of auxins. Auxins are produced in the growing tips in the top of the plant. They ACT or inhibit the lower branches. If you chop the tops (like I did) then there will be a reduction in auxins and flush if growth from te second tier. Chopping the understory does not affect auxin production.
The devil (and the results) are in the details.
