What makes you think they are starving by lowering the pms the last 7 days.you don’t think they have nutrients stored to get them to the finish.they will tell you if they haven’t.. .look how plants grow outside bud.I don’t even feed them the last fortnight or even give then a drink.they will fade naturally using up there nutrients dropping leaves .I dont think none of my grows have dropped one leaf towards the end..that tells me they have plenty of nutrients in reserve..
What I think we're all getting in to is something between floriculture, and making ripe fruit........sort of like what wine makers do. Or people who grow difficult, fancy flowers. Then there's chemistry/science, and art. Go all science and forget the art and something is lacking there too. Bring it all together (without going insane) and that's about as good as it gets. There's a limit to just about everything.......once we can grow/produce huge, soaked with resin buds, with 25%+ THC......the genetics being partially out of our hands, until we own whatever strains/varieties we want, and if we want to, breed our own. So then we try to push out the limits.......when it was about crossing varieties 40-50 years ago to get THC levels from 17% to 28%, cut flowering times by 5 weeks, and do the "grows like an Indica, high like a Sativa" thing, the improvements have been leaps and bounds. At this point, where are we going........for what added levels of effort? If it's about going to 40% THC? Well, can we? If so, do we really want/need to? We can make a 13% stout, 15%......or triple IPA. But do we want to? Then I can't drink more than a couple of glasses, or it starts tasting like you just added booze to a 10% IPA. My tolerance is nothing like it used to be, beer or weed. One good hit of strong weed and I'm just fine. 2 and I'm done......
By the way I'm sure anyone who wastes their time reading what I type sees that I use ........ a lot. I write the way I talk, and I can type 80wpm, even on my phone at this point. I kind of write as I think it or as I would say it, which is probably partially the New York City part of me too.......I'm the guy that'll talk to my cab driver, or if you sat down next to me at a bar.....
So to the extent that this is all fun, yeah. To make what we want, and enjoy the process.....maybe the added efforts to go 1 more % of THC, from 31% to 32% starts getting a little ridiculous, feeding our plants aged green tea and playing the flute for them during a full moon.......smells and flavors seem like the areas where we can make more significant progress than where we're already at for THC content. Making extracts, fine hash.......working landraces/heirlooms. It's definitely all interesting, I don’t know if I'm gonna start making colored charts and graphs or raising my own bats for guano......it's back to like making great wine or award winning orchids......some people are really, really into it, and to the extent that it's fun, and we enjoy life and do other things, yeah, it's awesome. We wouldn’t be really into growing great weed if we weren't really into growing great weed. :)