Just sitting here smoking this morning and brainstormed a new idea(I've never seen before anyway). Probly the biggest problems growing outdoors is plant damange due to mother nature (WIND/STORM!!). How many time have you went to bed at night and heard 30-40mph winds and think fuck. Well hears my idea anyway, when your plants are young train the major first second and maybe third major branches to go directly 180 degrees from normal growth, going completely opposite. In this way making the weakest point(the branch joint) now the strongest by making it now respond more like a spring rather than a braking point. I feel this could have saved me about a pound already this year, SO FAR! Ive grown for about 10 years now and I FIM, supercrop, tie and have done some surgical type repairs. Ive never seen this so tell me if idea original. 
