Good question and I would love for you to answer it for all of us come oct. lot of debate going on about that. If you have two plants of the same strain in same size holes or pots and promise not to clip any premature bud to smoke out of desperation (we all been there) then you might be able to add some meat to the argument that growers everywhere have been having for years.
I bent a few plants over this year out of necessity. My supplemental light was potentially going to burn leaves so i tied them and it bushed out nicely. I untied them when the rope nearly cut into the branches. I didn't want to cut off circulation. It may eventually have snapped the twine but better safe than sorry.
