Great thread, not much I could add. All the posts here seem very informative about the subject.
At the moment all my efforts are focused on my summer outdoor grow and how to best train the plants in my yard for stealth more so than bud developement. At the moment all the plants I have placed in the ground have undergone topping/fim/lst. Now I will stand back and get out of the way and they will do their thing. I noticed after doing an extreme job of spreading the branchs along the ground with a series of hoop stakes I would fashion out of heavy wire, the growth tips within 48 hours would straighten themselves out and the plant was thriving again. When it was first pinned down it didnt look very happy about it but it will reward me latter on in spades.
I have seen these internal branchs that are now exposed and flattened out pancake style produce massive size stalks resembling entire plants emerge from the results of this extreme bending. I once grew a plant 14 feet in diameter useing this method. Unfortunatly the plant also got 14 feet in height, which I would like to avoid this go around.
Inside vs outside, it's a whole different world. HID lighting cant began to do what mother nature and the right conditions will accomplish outdoors. I have had bottom branch colas growing sideways that were the size of baseball bats. This is not a reflection on anything I did besides bending the plant when it was young.
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