Cutting tips of colas off?

no

What you gain in width, you lose in height..........nett negative results in my experience.

Sounds bad. What is going to change when you do this? Think that one through, with respect to water/sugar/hormone maps for the plant. Then categorically say this is a not good idea. Conversely, what happens when you do this to a vegging plant or why do you do this? You do this take a hammer and bash through apical dominance...which is done by redirecting hormones...and takes like a week at best to recover from. You wanna do that to a flowering plant? If you wanted to redirect that energy, I'd say cutting the tops of colas is about the laziest and backwards way possible you could try to redirect it other than physically dangling your plant upside down and praying for bigger buds. Past that....wounding plant mass near flowering sites, specifically by opening them to the environment with no protections like this, is how you get bud rot when you wouldn't have.

I don't think it'll do as much as what you're hoping it would. Just having a healthy plant is the best way to get the best out of the flower. In my experience cutting any time after they start to flower is not the best idea.

Very nice question, with nice answers, it's always been very interesting to me the whole concept of getting more for less, while the term "pruning" is often associated with trees, it is also a horticultural practice applied to various types of plants, including shrubs, woody plants, and even some garden plants. Pruning involves the selective removal of plant parts, such as branches, stems, or flowers, to improve the plant's health, structure, or appearance. In fruit trees and some flowering plants, pruning can be used to encourage the development of more fruit or flowers, and it cannot be denied, but does it apply to cannabis? Break a stem I grows back stronger, Cut me down I come back multiplied, Chop off 90% plants ability to perform gas exchange? Not quite. Root respiration is directly reliant on cellular respiration. Root respiration is the process where plant roots take up oxygen and release carbon dioxide, and this process is fueled by the energy produced during cellular respiration. Cellular respiration breaks down glucose to produce ATP, which powers various cellular activities, including those in the root cells that facilitate nutrient and water uptake. Cellular respiration in plants relies on gas exchange primarily through leaves. Leaves have specialized pores called stomata that facilitate the intake of oxygen and release of carbon dioxide, essential for cellular respiration. While photosynthesis also uses stomata for gas exchange (taking in CO2 and releasing O2), respiration relies on the intake of O2 and release of CO2. buds can perform gas exchange, but it is generally less efficient than in leaves. Leaves are specifically adapted for efficient gas exchange with features like a large surface area to volume ratio, numerous stomata, and thin structures. While buds may have some stomata or lenticels, they are not as optimized for this process. #1 ATP Everything else is shit rolling downhill, at most by cutting tips you can trick the plant into activating defense mechanisms increasing antioxidant levels, same response from being eaten by herbivore. Stress is what initiates a response, stress doesn't mean you need to remove appendages crippling future energy production, stress can be applied to snap the stems without breaking its structure, for a strong response similar to topping but without the loss of apex.

'backbuilding' - it's pretty unpredictable and no gaurantee you aren't hurting yield. when it works, it'll cause fatter buds below, not unlike topping does with increased axial growth. Think the timing is key with this. you do it too late and all you accomplish is cutting off a portion of your bud. And, i don't think it's a predictable effect do waht you want to do, but probably going to be a net negative more times than not, even if you get a plant to respond positively once in a while. For different reasons, i remove the top portion of a cola before and everything below did compensate. I don't know if it was more or less than before, but there was a signficant reaction on the bud sites below and what remained at the top. Wasn't so much growing wider, but just bigger.

growdiaries.com/diaries/175042-grow-journal-by-gangstarr Did it by accident, there you can see how she grew out compared… I would‘t do it

yes the same idea when u cut ur buds for fattering it stops to grow to top and accumulate the width