I don't write this much on my cell phone often but you get this kind of luv.
There are much better ways to improve yield. The main thing for indoor growing is to SCROG and lollipop. Other stuff is minimal returns for work. A good SCROG and Lollipop is all we should be teaching newbs. Super cropping is also very good to learn young. Then lots of freak outs go away and you learn a lot about physiology fast.
There are lots of things I don't talk about on here because "you dont need to know".
People have to get there. Beginners want to do things their way and you can't stop it and that is how they learn.
I totaly recommend supper cropping and all sorts of things. It is fun. I made mad wild spiral corcscrew once.
But I can get monster yields without major defoliation and I do so darn near as fast as hydro.
We each appreciate it differently. I want to get through to the end of ripening as fast as possible. The reason is I have enough experience that I will always get good weight. It has little to do with the specific physiology in my experience rather the general physiology. And Silica matters a lot.
Like in the beginning you are worried about different things than later. For me I start by work to accelerate the root ball formation. I am looking to fill the SCROG. ...and when I see what I like I start a program a bit before bloom to get them to flip fast.
Sometimes when running seed I do stresses in veg to cause pre sexing and stretch them early and find my males.
Then I flip fast at like day 42ish from seed. Git er dun and onto the next batch.
I try not to add a week here and there for rebound. I just grow the SCROG out as fast as I can then bloom.