400W HPS - LA Confidential/Headband!

Im glad to help. Im nooopro but I do have 1 hell os a green thumb. Every plant of any nature does good if not great so I have fallen in love with growing. The price of thisshit is what slows me down, but yea gotta start some where:wtf:

I LST every day, as one would do with a scrog. The reason I dont do A scrog is I like to rotate my plants and pull them out to mess with. You cant do that with a screen in place so I did like what I did. Check it out on my log. Look close and you will see that I used hanger chain around my pots so I have unlimited tie down spots. Works great.

remind me and I can get a close up for yea if you like.

Just remember 1 thing....Its a weed,.itll grow through just about anything so dont over think it. Youll learn as you go and ever batch will get better

Slowly tie um down, every day a lil more and youll be surprised as to what happends? itll grow through just about anything so dont over think it. Youll learn as you go and ever batch will get better.



Be good dog Ill be back:thumbsup:

Transplanted all 6 girls into 5 gallon pots yesterday. They were DEFINITELY root bound, the roots were piled up at the bottom of the 2.5 gallon buckets so they should be thrilled to get into their new space. It has been almost 24 hours since they were transplanted and they seem pretty recovered. Two of them were significantly stressed after the transplant, but this morning they looked nice and healthy.

Still considering if I should do LST less than 24 hours after transplant, I definitely want to start! What do you guys think?

Depending on input Im probably going to start LST today, as of now...planning it for today.

Oh, I also raised my fan so it was as tall as my girls are. Thanks guys!!
Here are the pics...LMK what you think!

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MadSativa: The more I see people top their plants the more uneasy I get about it. Just the idea of cutting a plant up scares me haha. Is it really worth it?

GG

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you will get more bud, toping is a practice, where you top the main branch or steam, and this forces the 2 internodes to branch off as well, what this means is when you flower, you will not have just one cola but 2 or 3 or 20. a little trick alot of people do is top at the 5th or 6th inter node, and you will get 4 massive colas instead of just one. this and good cannopee managment is what will yeild more buds. lolly popping when their ready to flower will also help, choping and pruning is all part of growing, if its your first time, then try with just one at the 5th or 6th node, let them veg for at least another week to get those new branches a time to set in (grow out, you want those new branches to be out at least 2 inches from when you toped) then flower them, I bet the topped one gets more than the non toped. even with the week or week and a half stunded growth.

toping is just taking the new groth off so no choping at the main branch, doin this stunts for like a week and a half minimum, dont wana waste time on waiting when it could b growing or flowering.

If you do start today, id say go light. And For the ones that took the transplant a little hard, try to wait till tomorrow. But if they look to be recovered and have new growth, go for it.

I dont think youll get more bud by topping, just less branches with bigger buds. (ie. fewer branches with bigger buds, but equal to more branches with mid sized buds)

Lst and topping are relatively the same concept (promoting side growth), but lst will have a lot quicker of a recovery time.

I LST'd my smallest headband which was about 13"...the rest of my non LST'd plants are about 18"-19". I am taking some pics so tell me how I'm doing or if I need to change anything.

Pics...

First three pics are of the LST i just did.

The last pic is of a leaf problem I might be having, any comments? Maybe just from the stress of the transplant?

Looks good my man :thumbsup:

The plant may pull that duct tape loose over some weeks. if you drill a bunch of screws around the pot, you could tie branches to em and theyll hold firm.

curling leaf edges is usually from heat stress. How hot is it in there?

It's definitely not heat stress. Most of the time it's between 65-75 degrees, tops at 80 or 85. It's so cal in december so it's prime weather IMO.

Im not sure what the cause of the curling is....:(

Hmm, not sure then.. maybe someone else will chime in about it :jointsmile:

doesnt look to be effecting too much of her. keep an eye on it for now, see if it spreads.

oooo space is that much of a factor? ususaly lst starts closer to when your gonna flower, I have seen this before though, but the foilage so close to the soil invites pests and fungus. if this is nessesary, some sand on top of the soil might keep all that away.

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toping is just taking the new groth off so no choping at the main branch, doin this stunts for like a week and a half minimum, dont wana waste time on waiting when it could b growing or flowering.

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I meant a week and a half maximum, topping if done right wont stunt growth at all. Or very little less than a day.

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Originally Posted by MadSativa

oooo space is that much of a factor? ususaly lst starts closer to when your gonna flower, I have seen this before though, but the foilage so close to the soil invites pests and fungus. if this is nessesary, some sand on top of the soil might keep all that away.

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Space? I have a decent amount of leftover space...not a huge deal since Im not going more than 6 plants. What do you mean by that?

Im switching to flowering in about 1 1/2 - 2 weeks...so I felt like this would be a good time to start LST and filling out the pot. Am i wrong?