AWnox
Active Member
Hello everyone,
After several years growing the old fashioned way (no topping, no fimming, no LST, no nothing) I have decided to venture forth in Low Stress Training. I have already started bending her down and tying her up; seemed a bit wrong at the time but now I'm getting used to it after seeing her lift her head up after just a couple of hours, seeing that she's ok makes me feel a bit more at ease. In any case after following the same regimen for a couple of weeks of vegetation I have noticed something odd about feeding when training. Before I would feed during the night when in vegetative mode and in the day when flowering; for me that has been the most effective way seeing as she drinks more during the night during veg but more during the day during flowering. Now that I have been training her daily she has changed the way she intakes her nutrients. Mind you I have ran the same strain with and without LST.
What is happening now is that right after I train her the uptake of nutrients decreases by about 50% for approx 12 hours after that she starts to consume the same way again or even more at times. I can verify this daily; every time I train her which is early in the morning right after she wakes up she slows down nutrient uptake for 12 hours; her ppms even go up by 1/3 for those 12 hours but quickly go down to it's base reservoir or even less since it's using more than before the training. For example: Let's say that I have changed the reservoir and added nutrient solution of 500 ppm right before the training. Soon after the training the ppm start rising, even as high as 600 for example. After 12 hours I check the ppm again and they are almost back to 500, a couple of hours later and she's already at 450ppm meaning she's bounced back from the training and is consuming nutrients.
What I have concluded so far is that when training one has to be first very aware of your ppm and where your plant is at that stage in her life; second to add a bit extra of Micro (N) to your feed if your into heavy training and also to feed below your estimated nutrient ceiling as to not cause nutrient burn when she's recovering. I would very much like to hear everyone's input if possible. If there are any other more experienced growers out there with more experience in LST please share your thoughts about feeding and LST so that we may all benefit from the knowledge.
Thank you for your time RIU,
AWnox
After several years growing the old fashioned way (no topping, no fimming, no LST, no nothing) I have decided to venture forth in Low Stress Training. I have already started bending her down and tying her up; seemed a bit wrong at the time but now I'm getting used to it after seeing her lift her head up after just a couple of hours, seeing that she's ok makes me feel a bit more at ease. In any case after following the same regimen for a couple of weeks of vegetation I have noticed something odd about feeding when training. Before I would feed during the night when in vegetative mode and in the day when flowering; for me that has been the most effective way seeing as she drinks more during the night during veg but more during the day during flowering. Now that I have been training her daily she has changed the way she intakes her nutrients. Mind you I have ran the same strain with and without LST.
What is happening now is that right after I train her the uptake of nutrients decreases by about 50% for approx 12 hours after that she starts to consume the same way again or even more at times. I can verify this daily; every time I train her which is early in the morning right after she wakes up she slows down nutrient uptake for 12 hours; her ppms even go up by 1/3 for those 12 hours but quickly go down to it's base reservoir or even less since it's using more than before the training. For example: Let's say that I have changed the reservoir and added nutrient solution of 500 ppm right before the training. Soon after the training the ppm start rising, even as high as 600 for example. After 12 hours I check the ppm again and they are almost back to 500, a couple of hours later and she's already at 450ppm meaning she's bounced back from the training and is consuming nutrients.
What I have concluded so far is that when training one has to be first very aware of your ppm and where your plant is at that stage in her life; second to add a bit extra of Micro (N) to your feed if your into heavy training and also to feed below your estimated nutrient ceiling as to not cause nutrient burn when she's recovering. I would very much like to hear everyone's input if possible. If there are any other more experienced growers out there with more experience in LST please share your thoughts about feeding and LST so that we may all benefit from the knowledge.
Thank you for your time RIU,
AWnox
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