budlover13
King Tut
Not at all. I totally understand time restrictions. My wife complains all the time that I spend too much time on things other than her. GOTTA keep momma happy or NOBODY will be happy!
does lst increase your yeilds?
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Uncle Ben
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Apical dominance changes from one point to many. As to less or more yield....depends on your setup I guess. Also depends on one's personal preference regarding maintenance. Lot's of ways to slice and dice this thing......
IAmKrazy2
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Ben, do you flush for 7 to 10 days, harvest then add nutes again?? I have clipped top colas first, and waited up to 2 more weeks for lower buds in the past but never added nutes after the first flush and clipping. I love the idea, it has worked well for me previously, just wondering how do you do it?
Uncle Ben
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I don't "flush", ever. If you have too much salts in your soil, then you need to back off on your applications throughout the grow.
Good luck,
UB
meezy4tw
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Jerry Garcia
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I think LST or tying down or whatever you want to call it is most effective for indoor grows, where the light intensity falls off exponentially with distance from the source, which is why you want an even canopy. Outdoors the sun is just as intense 6 inches off the ground as it is 6 feet, so those lower branches have a better chance of bulking up. With LST you help bring those lower branches up to the canopy where light is most intense.
I'm sure if you were trying for a massive outdoor bush you could LST during veg for a few months and move it outside to flower, in which case it probably would increase yield, which was the question. But maybe just straight vegging for that same amount of time would yield equally well outdoors. Not sure about that one.
I'm sure if you were trying for a massive outdoor bush you could LST during veg for a few months and move it outside to flower, in which case it probably would increase yield, which was the question. But maybe just straight vegging for that same amount of time would yield equally well outdoors. Not sure about that one.
NorthernLights#5
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newwbie hear whats LST mean?
NLXSK1
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Low Stress Training. Basically tying your plant sideways so the branches grow bigger colas.
mistioud
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Sooo I lsted my first grow and first 4 plants are 5 inches average height, but they have some really nice looking buds and they are pretty fat.. check grow in sig. one is really tall sativa thats taking a long time .. she is as old as the 4 short indicas but this sativa has grown to 13 inches in the same time and its just started to flower a bit more probably 6 weeks left with her as the shorties will be done in 2 weeks
It worked well for me, I just harvested 6 plants I low stress trained...they seemed to have good yields, but I must say my grow room is fairly small and these plants were sloppy because there was branches everywhere. This made it hard to get my watering can in there without disrupting too much. I've got some little guys about to be done vegging which I started lst but decided after my first tie to lollipop since I had a high cieling and not to large of a room (4x4) I'm planning on having a journal so keep an eye out. Good luck with your lst, I say go for it if u don't mind ur plants a lil wild