ThestonedMatrix
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What do you guys think is better?
which yields more buds?
which yields more buds?
Lst or Topping?
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cylee89
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LST is better for low budget grows (like CFL growing) because it does not stress out the plant as much.
For outdoor grows, topping may be more appropriate since stress would not be as important as in smaller, indoor, low budget grows.
Also, LST would be more time consuming in outdoor grows (not to mention terribly conspicuous)
If you're growing indoors GO FOR LST! your plants will EXPLODE!
For outdoor grows, topping may be more appropriate since stress would not be as important as in smaller, indoor, low budget grows.
Also, LST would be more time consuming in outdoor grows (not to mention terribly conspicuous)
If you're growing indoors GO FOR LST! your plants will EXPLODE!
swelchjohn
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I've never had a plant "stress" on me from topping..Sure it'll have a chance of stunting the plants severely by topping a large portion, BUT that's if you wait too long to top. Wait until the 4th or 5th node appears, top the plant just above the second node. It'll take a day or two to adjust, but your plants will bounce back, if noticable stress does even show. In my opinion, lst is very time consuming and often distracting from what the plant actually needs. Tying, un-tying, moving strings, tightening strings. Each string or band or clip is just one more variable added to an already tight list of things the plant NEEDS. Topping, on the other hand, is definately a guarnatee of results...but only with one action, ONCE in the plants ENTIRE cycle. Once? No ropes and strings and clips and ties? NO. Top it once, let it grow. There are plenty of folks that are ready to neigh-say this even before i typed it out, and i can't change that view. Take my advice, avoid stress and disruption of the plant's natural growth.
happy toking
JS
happy toking
JS
swelchjohn
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The plants look pretty healthy. Thanks for posting pics.
ThestonedMatrix
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thanks do you think shes looking about three weeks and should I wait a little longer before topping
darkdestruction420
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i dont think you have a full grasp of lst. or at all. lol. no offense but you get gaurenteed results with lst too. more colas and a bushier plant that you can tie for optimal light effeciency. I'm not coming at u personally, i just needed to voice these concerns i had with your post and put in a good word on lst.......
darkdestruction420
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as for the ops question-do both, fim top at 4-5 nodes then lst the new branches.
ThestonedMatrix
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darkdestruction420
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yes, lol, otherwise i wouldnt of recommended it.
swelchjohn
New Member
Whether you LST or Top, you are basically doing the same thing : distributing the yield over more of the plant. In other words, the same plant grown in the same conditions without LST or Topping would yield the same.I.E. : You can have either : 1.Less buds that weigh more 2.More buds that weigh less. Topping and LST are just ways to alter the way the plant grows to suit your environment, really. Want to make sure your buds are the best and the biggest? Give the plant everything it needs to grow.
LBH
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You don't get more colas from lst. you get more colas from topping but it's not more cola's persay, just that main cola divided, how ever many times you top.
KlosetKing
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this is not exactly true as you are more than capable of growing out multiple colas (2-4) with Topping that total more weight than the single cola could have produced. there are always differences in plants, and this cannot be said or proven to be one way or another, but ive seen pics of topped plants with colas so big there's no way the plant would have produced the same weight without the top. though the the more topping you do, the closer to truth i think your statement becomes. i personally think a plant topped 8 times would have less yield than one topped once, but again, how could we ever truly be sure one way or another. i dont feel like setting up a controlled experiment for this
iam with DD on this one. Do both. with topping, you already get a boost to light penetration later on in flower. throw some lst in to train the plant to fall where you want it, keep optimal light penetration, and get some fatty popcorn buds to go with your beautiful colas.
LBH
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Agreed, but those 4 large colas are just that 1 extra large divided into 4 smaller parts.
Agreed, they yield more, but there is 1 main cola,....till you top.
My point was that lst doesn't make more colas, topping does.
KlosetKing
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you say agreed, but disagree with the only point i was trying to make. that 1 extra large cola is not going to weigh as much as if you topped it and turned it into 4 large colas. i believe that in general, not 100%, but in general, 1 cola divided into 4 colas will weigh more than leaving the 1 cola by itself.