I would wager that the plant biomass between two plants grown under identical conditions, with one being trained down or scrogged and one being allowed to do what God designed it to do would be the same, however some of that biomass would be diverted to flowers in the trained plant where in the untrained plant it would be in stem and leaves to get that main cola up as high as possible.
Think like a plant - the goal is to reproduce, so the best way to do that is to get the main cola up as high above the canopy as possible so it has the best chance to catch any male pollen floating around. By training it down I will wager you will convert a bunch of that energy to flowers that would have otherwise gone to stems and leaves, although your one big main cola will be smaller and you'll have a bunch of nugs as compared to a big fattie. |