The insects this year are unreal.Japanese Beetles, Army Worms, Grasshoppers, Locust, you name it they are thick this year.Ya that explains why the plant took so long to flower. I don't have enough plants to try your rodelization method in fact I never heard of doing this before but its fun to experiment if you have the time and a few extra girls to play around with. Every year outside is different and I am learning to grow totally organic for the past couple of years and it has its rewards and a few downfalls. Mother Nature can play havoc on you without adding any extra stresses to the plant and add the insects above and below the plant that love your organic soil mix and it can be quite challenging even with proven strains. This year I had some of my branches of my Magic Melon strain yellowing on me and took a wild guess that it was a root problem so I purchased 20 million beneficial nematodes and man that plant looks great again. Fight nature with nature if you can I guess. Im starting to see a bit of powdery mildew just starting on one of my so called bullet proof strains and im using a product called cyclone ( a natural product ) and its got that under control. All my plants were heavily topped and LST trained and I just couldn't keep up with the thinning out of the middle of the plants and thats where PM usually starts but I've got all that under control for now its been that kind of summer hot hazy and humid with very heavy dew at night a magnet for PM. I will be posting some more pics in a couple of weeks. One of my Pineapple Muffin plants is well into bud and the other 3 are coming along good . Nice pics Uncle C hope she finishes well for you