1. So you think that the products produced at the top of a plant/tree/shrub are only contained within that zone and not translocated throughout the plant including the root tissue?
2. There is very little green material at budsites for photosynthesis compared to the large fan leaves (solar collectors).
Try growing outdoors, With most genetics you'll have popcorn buds at the bottom in spite of that area receiving plenty of sun. You guys just don't understand plant processes.
Look, guys like you have made a choice and that choice is to conform to a cannabis forum group mentality, a comfort zone, as opposed to spending time with bonafide conventional gardeners and spending some time with your nose in a conventional gardening or horticultural book.
(1) I think of the roots as a pump and the less energy the plant uses, pumping the nutes 2,3 or 5 ft high the better and that's why I like them short and bushy with thick stems (don't know if I am right or not)
(2) yer that makes sense, There is very little green material at budsites for photosynthesis compared to the large fan leaves, just like your main shoot only had a couple of fan leaves and it looked good, would be good to find out why it tends to go like this, loads of fan leaves in veg and a few in mid/late flower at the top of the canopy seems to give you the largest buds
I am not an outdoor grower and didn't know you get popcorn buds at the bottom of a plant even when there in direct sun light, maybe the plants not getting enough nutes/water so the lower fan leaves /bud sites suffer and all the energy is redirected to the top of the canopy.
keeping plants short and bushy under 2ft tall tends to yield 3-5oz's per plant, often without any popcorn buds, don't know why
I was guessing popcorn buds was down to the light as this often happens when you grow plants without enough light ( seen so many threads on this lol )
keeping the light close to the top of the canopy has always resulted in larger buds
will start reading up on conventional gardening or horticultural book