Everyone reading this comment; “uh, seems a bit too depressing of an article, I’ll just read the comments.”

Well, I tried that, but there were no comments for me to look at. How am I supposed to ignore potential existential threats when no-one is flaming each other in te comments?

The world isn’t simple, but some arguments can be.

Simple is also different from easy.

Nah it’s not late. They have a growth spurt when they enter flower, so if you top now, it will be a more all around growth spurt and less straight up with the top cola.

Doesn’t even need to cut off the main node, just crush it a lil bit to break it.

Most of the time I defoliate the smallest lower branches just when entering flower and still keep shaping the plant with gentle bending of the branches. Give it a good once-over once she’s ready to fruit and I change the lights.

Those are gonna be massive after they enter flower.

I’d say it’s not too late until you’re well into flower. Just crushing the top growth node a bit will induce the same sort of hormonal changes that topping does.

Moreover, before flower, and usually for the first weeks of it, the plant is still plenty bendy, so you can spread it out so you get a nice wide bush (hehe) with some good airflow through it.

I don’t do any special entire projects like mainlining, since I’ve found that my casual bending the plant as I go along works just fine to achieve a nice more or less even canvas of nugs in my tent.

Well the topping I do do around 4/6 leaf pairs

They look good though, but if you see it useful and the plants are still bendy, i just like “opening up” the top a bit, making the tallest branches go wider and more to the same level as the other ones. Granted that doesn’t really matter when you’re growing outside, but it would allow more sunlight deeper into the plant perhaps.

Idk just chatting shit, looks good. Wishing I had an outside garden instead of just tents.

I second removing dead foliage and perhaps defoliating a bit to ensure proper airflow through the plant.

Edit also if you haven’t topped, you might as well, so the apical dominance breaks. This way you’ll get a wider plant not as tall… This with defoliating will make it so it’s not like a spruce but more like a berry bush, so especially because it’s outside, it will reduce risk of mold.

I thank you.

It’s rare to get a good faith reply to my replies sometimes, huehue.

I’m too sleepy to respond in depth, perhaps tomorrow. Good night, fr3n.

Btw a USSR-style planned economy falls outside the term market economy, even thoughthey had money, right?

Uhm, yes. That’s the polar opposite of market economy; a planned economy.

One of the definitions of socialism is “the means of production are owned or regulated by the state”.

I know a lot of people vehemently disagree, but we Nordics are technically socialist countries. Social democracies which utilise market socialism, insofar that the markets are heavily regulated and products taxed, but taxes (and fines) are progressive, and the tax money gets spent on society. (Well, in the ideal case, obviously, we’re faaaaar from fucking perfect.)

Capitalism is essentially just to market economies what cancer is to cell growth. It’s not to wrong to call the former the latter, but the latter is a category. The former is usually also malignant.

Capitalism always strives for monopolies. That’s why even the US has socialist policies. That’s not to be taken as me saying they’re socialist in any way, just the nature of the policies are. It’s the state regulating the market to prevent monopolies from fucking it up. Antitrust laws.

So to answer your question of “what other options”, have a peek at market socialism.

I think we have the resources to give everyone a shitton more if the crazy wealth hoarders stop. That’s it. Get some control on the crazy addiction for money, we can still have market economies, private property, a faster developing economy, but also less crime, less inequality and less suffering overall.

Literally just take the ultra rich out of the picture. We will still have rich people and people can strive for wealth. Just as long as we meet people’s basic needs, have good labour laws and manage to take care of the planet.

And because that will jump start even more space exploration since we could actually fund NASA instead of having Elon play with his dildockets, we could actually get somewhere, and once there’s proper infra for some commerce up there, hey, go at it capitalists, the space is literally infinite. Just don’t mess up our solar system.

If this wasn’t possible we’d have to find an alternative to money/transaction based economic systems.

Capitalism doesn’t have a monopoly on market economies. Although it sure as fuck pretends and tries to.

I’ve also had this same idea more than once.

I think the power output of the earlier commentor is probably for a “basic” fit person. But what about those huge bodybuilding hulks? How much is the power output when they’re pulling maximums for a day?

In the best scenario, there’d actually br extra electricity to sell back to the grid, and the gym might be free for some of the “power-users”.

However I think as the earlier dude points out, stable power output isn’t that high and probably way more reliable to just put down solar panels, and a whole gym worth of generative weight lifting equipment would probably cost quite a lot.