Well, in the spirit of never failing to stir up a bees nest when given the opportunity, I'm going to chime in here and say the prevalence of people who want to buy only sun grown bud is on the upswing, but market does not always reflect on the quality as can be proven by simply observing the quality of tools and merchandise you can purchase at walmart which happens to be the leading retailer in this country. I know we are lost as a country when viewed from that completely dystopian vantage point, however, I do believe there are huge differences in a plant when grown under the sun as opposed to any lighting mankind can devise at this point. I have done some experiments this year simply because I could, and I must say, the differences are astounding. The plants I have grown from the same clones both indoors and out would appear to be completely different strains, the difference is that acute. Different color, different plant structure, different flowering times and lengths, TOTALLY different aromas and terp definition, and last but not least the plants and colas grown under the sun appear to have about half again as many trichomes on the flowers, this year some of them are literally bristling with trichs, I have some pictures that I have taken under magnification and when I can figure out how to get them off of my new phone I will post them, I also have fairly complete documentation of these little experiments of mine. The results for me would suggest that we aren't as far along as we thought when it comes to reproducing the suns rays. Now, if i wanted to make sure the plants I planted grew to maturity without being ravaged by roving mobs of whitetail deer or a lone groundhog who liked to solve the problem of his ever growing incisors by gnawing on the huge green stalks of almost mature Indica plants, I would most definitely grow them indoors, It would solve so many issues we outdoor growers have. Like the time i was convinced i had a few plants that were mysteriously stricken with PM during the middle of a drought, when in reality I had managed to plant these girls directly under the feeding route of a very busy pair of mockingbirds whos defecant eerily resembled the faint white markings of PM, boy did i feel stupid, out there with a mister and clean rags wiping off individual leaves when the aeronautical pair of poopers managed to land one directly on my hand. This debate could go on forever and never be definitively resolved, but i would vote on just saying that the there are differences some good some bad.