when to start staking

Hey what's up, I have a girl about ready to go 12/12, thing about her is that she is kind of doing the leaning tower of Pisa, slanted, but not too much. I was wondering should I stake her up now in preparation for the bud add on later?

I would it isnt hard to just stick one of those wooden helpers up, you would do it to a tomato plant ect, wont harm the plant just helps it up a bit

LWD said:

Hey what's up, I have a girl about ready to go 12/12, thing about her is that she is kind of doing the leaning tower of Pisa, slanted, but not too much. I was wondering should I stake her up now in preparation for the bud add on later?

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Train her to the stake when young. The plant that is...........

or if you can, get a small tomato cage around it and start pulling branches out to the side to get it trained more like a bush and to let more light into the other parts of the plant....

I put in stakes when my plants begin to wobble or limbs begin to wobble. WalMart has these straight metal stakes bent into a circle on top. For my single cola plants I use those. WalMart also has some three legged metal hoops. I use those when I need more support for many limbs. They are very inexpensive and I can also use the thin metal uprights for the circles without the full hoop in place. They work terrifically and I prefer them to the larger bamboo or green large plastic stakes that are much larger in diameter. So far the thin metal has held up the heaviest branches. But I'm not growing trees so ymmv,