@Classic Remix- You can't compare nature to indoors, if you allow your plants to grow "naturally" indoors then you will not get the most out of your plants. The reason most cannabis plants grow in a christmas tree form is to increase the surface area of the plant so as the sun is at an angle or directly above the plants, they will receive optimum light. Now indoors, most lights are directly above the plant and it don't move, so creating an even canopy is basically going against nature, but it will increase yield. I don't know where you got 7 grams from, but when I grew a plant "naturally" without training and pruning I got 2 1/2 oz. from 1 plant. When I Topped, pruned and LST'd another plant that was the same strain in an almost identical environment, I got about 6 oz. from 1 plant, same size buckets, same nutes, same veg time, just about everything was the same except I did NOT allow it to grow the way nature intended.
Nobody is trying to outsmart mother nature, but we are trying to get the most from a plant that is not in its original environment, so we must train the plant to fit our indoor setup. The reason most good growers with horizontal lights will Top, prune and/or LST plants is to increase yield and its a proven fact when you create an even canopy compared to the natural "christmas tree" look, the plant with an even canopy will yield more with all other factors constant.
