Hey UB, I have been reading your comments and i am curious about your thoughts on situations where there are so many leaves that it blocks the bud from absorbing light, leaving the harvest, plentiful, but with a huge percentage of undeveloped buds because only the tops of the colas received light?
I've never had a problem and stated why and showed photos many times. Where people go wrong (for the hundredth time in the hundredth boring thread) is automatically assuming that popcorn buds are due to low light levels. You have played right into this forum paradigm.
As I've said (again for a hundred times) these parrots have never grown outdoors or they might have witnessed first hand the same kind of popcorn at lower levels. Some of this is genetically driven but most times can be directly attributed to how a plant develops from juvenile into adulthood and how a plant assesses and directs its chemical resources (carbos, proteins) and hormones via apical dominance. When the flowering (hormonal) response is triggered,
a plants' resources, food byproducts, are directed to the uppermost part of the plant, not the lower part. It's just what plants do. A tree develops from the top, outward, Not from the bottom, inward.
Most fruiting trees, grapes, develop flowers and then fruit within the shaded canopy, not necessarily at the top.
https://www.rollitup.org/t/no-lower-budsites-do-not-need-light-to-develop-get-educated.829061/
Photos #1, 4, 6 show some very solid and chunky bud collections at lower levels in spite of those areas being totally shaded.
Uncle Ben