so this time of year is when people ask themselves, do you wanna just grow normal full-term plants that flower with the sun and finish in October, or do you wanna grow light deprivation which is more like an indoor because you manipulate the flowering cycle by putting lightproof plastic over the plants, creating the 12 hr period of darkness required to flower and finish them in August. Finishing them in August is beneficial because you flower during the most potent and blue spectrum period of sunlight, that we get in June, July and August. Also benefits of harvesting them in the middle of the summer is supply from everyone else is dwindling and because of the blue light and the smaller containers used they look more like an indoor. When you let them finish with the photo period of the sun in October, you have more elongated buds because they continue to grow vegetative while they are first starting to flower and the red spectrum during the fall makes them grow less dense. And of course, everyone and their third cousins have plants finishing at the same time.
Now light dep does require more plants, labor hours, set up cost and knowledge to pull a productive and worth while harvest. In a perfect world you do so well with the Dep that when full term is finished, you cut it, dry it and store it. Pulling it back out in feb or march to be trimmed after the wave of full terms comes and goes.