The Real Levers Behind Bud Density
Why 'density' is dry-matter packing, not a magic additive — the light, K, airflow, VPD and generative-steering levers that make flower firm, and the honest limit genetics puts on all of them.
Density is dry matter packed into a tight structure
A dense, rock-hard nug is not the product of a bloom booster — it is the sum of (1) how much dry matter the plant deposited into each flower during bulk and (2) how tight the internodal structure of that flower is. You set the structure during stretch (generative steering, height control, tight nodes) and you fill it during bulk (vegetative lean, peak light and feed). Late-flower steering then hardens what's already there. Nothing you add in week 7 creates density that wasn't banked earlier — the density levers are a sequence, and most 'my buds are airy' problems are stretch-and-bulk problems diagnosed too late.
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