Low Stress Training (LST) Guide

[letitgrow77]

here are my sexy ladies, 24 days in flower..the purp is about 2 weeks ahead

 

[lochem]

Is the plant meant to be untied when flowering is started?
Or are you supposed to leave the branches tied down all the way thru to harvest
I ask because I've seen photos of plants that were LSTd and they were nice and big and not tied down anymore

 

[Rollbluntz]

well man I've heard of a way people do thatbut the minute your plant is untied it will spring up a little bit. The lstd plants you saw were probably done when they were smaller and still vegged for a long time thats what a lot of people do to gain many big top buds and have big bushy plants. My advice would be if you tie it down or stake it down then you should leave that anchor point there until the plant is chopped. If you wanna lst a plant and then let it grow to be big you can do that.

 

[mcpurple]

i think you should leave the ties till chopped, cuz they do like said above bounce back up a few inches no matter what unless you about to harvest and the buds are so heavy it weighs it dont.
just leave the ties

 

[letitgrow77]

DEfinitely leave it tied down till harvest. I tried untieing once and it became a mess, they all started growing towards the middle. Had to re-tie every one back down.

 

[Rollbluntz]

Yep np man and that's a delicious looking bud you got as your avatar

 

[Rollbluntz]

Heres a pic of the lstd plant I showed in the beginning of the thread

 

[letitgrow77]

looking good bro, how far along are ya? here are my girls @30 days, ima give them a shot of N on the next feeding

 

[Rollbluntz]

Umm close to 30 days mine are flowering a lot slower than yours it seems

 

[zedhead]

Awesome thread Rollbluntz +rep

I was wondering if you (or anyone else here) could tell me if I were to try topping and LST, would I do the topping prior to starting the LST or after? Sorry if this seems like a n00b question....starting my first grow (PC case) and will be trying LST, but am now considering topping as well

cheers!

 

[letitgrow77]

Start your lst first, once that gets going then start topping.

 

[kingofqueen]

Pineapple Express and Purple Flo 2 weeks flowering .

 

[Rollbluntz]

Yep listen to letitgrow do your lst first then top the new "top growths" that come from that

 

[Rollbluntz]

View attachment 1227951Pineapple Express and Purple Flo 2 weeks flowering .

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Those are some nice looking plants and thats a wonderful lst job man

 

[mcpurple]

Awesome thread Rollbluntz +rep

I was wondering if you (or anyone else here) could tell me if I were to try topping and LST, would I do the topping prior to starting the LST or after? Sorry if this seems like a n00b question....starting my first grow (PC case) and will be trying LST, but am now considering topping as well

cheers!

i per sonly think it is best to top first then lst and top more if wanted, if you top first you just gave your self more main shoots to tie over

 

[HotPhyre]

Well here is the end of week 3 for my lst ladies!!!

 

[Rollbluntz]

Well here is the end of week 3 for my lst ladies!!!
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They are looking damn good man keep us posted

 

[HotPhyre]

They are looking damn good man keep us posted

Thanks bro had to spend like 2 hours trying to transplant those fuckers from 5gal to 7gal pots!

 

[dr green dre]

Good piece of info there rollbluntz ,Thanks for explaniton as i just did it anyway thing but that you have more tops..

Hotphyre.. setup looks good whats the plant to the fr/left of the pic it looks like a real strecher. good growing.

I Lst mine by bending them outwards daily til i get a decent amount of tops.
Heres a pic of some of my Lst trials ..




the other 2 pics are cheese 90ltr dwc-current grow after trim and switch to 12/12.

 

[Rollbluntz]

Those plants look good man and the lst job looks even better +rep