Tying down your plants

[healthy_ganjaForest]

I dont know if anybody still does this but has anyone ever tried this? durning flowering you tie down your plant so that all parts of the plant gets light; I have heard that you produce heads just as big on the top all around the plant. On a scale of 1 to 10 just how good of a yield do you get?

[KL4D4]

Called LSTing

[usc886]

yea i'm sure you can find plenty advise if you look, but i am fairly certain you should have done that during veg.

[healthy_ganjaForest]

so LSTing is what its called? so what does it stand for? just wondering it sounds pretty cool. should you seriously tie done the plant durning veg stage too? Im new here so i dont know much. I use to be a member of this site but i can't remember my user name. Oh do you guys know what happened to OverGrow.com ??

[Scarlet Sky]

stands for low stress training. covered in detail in this thread...

http://boards.cannabis.com/basic-growing/94493-kps-cannabis-college-cannabis-issues-facts-guide.html

[healthy_ganjaForest]

thanks scarlet sky! Im back here to learn some new stuff and to refresh up on some information. I wonder what happen to overgrow.com this site and overgrow was the best sites. happy this site is still alive. happy toking people

[stinkyattic]

overgrow has been down for a while now. Luckily a bunch of people saved info off it and it is being re-posted here. you CAN find some of it.

As for colas all being of large and uniform size... okay, there's a limit to how much bud mass a single plant with x amount of light and y volume of soil and z levels of water and fertilizer with a certain set of genetics can produce under optimal conditions.

If you want to maximize your cola size, you have to maximize light, give your plant plenty of space (soil volume) and veg time (this is important!), and feed it properly.

Given 2 plants (one trained and one untrained) in 1 gallon pots with the same amoutn of light, the plant being grown as a single-cola plant will give you the biggest cola, even though the plants may have similar overall weight.

Hope that helps. Some growers do a final pruning at the onset of flower to remove all but the 4 strongest stalks so that the ratio of big desirable colas to popcorn buds is very high.

[healthy_ganjaForest]

stinkyattic so your talking about if i didnt top the plant right? you seem well eduacated, would you recommend placing lights on the side as well on top? for maximizing cola that is

[stinkyattic]

You can go about training a couple ways...
You can top, either straight topping or FIM (where you purposely leave bits of the terminal shoot instead of removing them cleanly, resulting in more new shoots at that origin).
Or you can bend or tip the main stalk so that it still has that terminal cola but the side growth is more exposed to light. If you bend the tip down very low, almost making a horseshoe shape out of the main stem, the side growth that is higher than the terminal bud WILL grow faster than if it had been left alone.

The big idea of training is to make the plant the optimal shape for your setup. You should almost never need side lights! The exception being in a super micro grow with flouros... and IMO that isn't even worth the effort!

If you go look in the logs, and under 'foxysox is back in the game', there are a few different shaped plants where she has treated them different ways. The bushiest is an older plant that was bent over like a horseshoe and the new side growth was used for clones, but there's plenty left and the overall plant shape really maximizes light to all of it. I really like that style, letting the main stem grow to about 12-14 inches and then pinching it and training it bent over.

http://boards.cannabis.com/indoor-growing/84385-miss-stinkys-first-grow-log-p-11.html

Go down the page on this link and there's pics of how I start them out.