I'm not sure what your point is. Plant count is very important. Yes I have grown as many as 9 plants per sq ft before. Yes, NINE. And yes that was some serious yield per sq foot. If I did that in current op my total plant count would be around 3200. Let's look at Fed Law: Under 99 plants: No Mandatory Minimum Sentence. 99-999 plants: 5 year Mandatory Minimum Sentence. 999 Plants to 9999 Plants: 10 Year Mandatory Minimum Sentence.
So, my choice is to grow at around 75% max potential and stay under any mandatory minimum prison sentence, OR, grow at 100% potential and get 10 years even if the judge was my dad. Hmmmmmm. Buddy, I've done my prison time with the feds.
As for the comment of I'm fucked anyway. You're totally wrong on that. My buddy was just visited by the cops at his op down the street from mine. His op is twice my size. After a 2 day investigation with 6 detectives, they determined he was within State Laew and left. He's dealing with some costly code violations, but that's it. We have the same attorney who set us up the same way.
I don't really need to hear about how I'll be fucked. I've been fucked...and fucked good. There will be no more fucking here. I don't need to hear that I could get more yield with more plants. I am fully aware of that. I wrote it at least a dozen times in this thread. So what exactly are you trying to say? I'm full of shit cause any 20 yr grow vet would be growing 500 plants in an op this size? Sorry, that's for 10 year vets. 20 yr ex convict vets know better.