Quote Originally Posted by Cannab!s
You know man, you can lay those babies down in an L.S.T. and they'll put on a lot more weight. Are there trichs all over it? I had some Nirvana bigbud when i started, and it was sugar coated, huge. Not the most powerful punch but there was so much sugar on it, i was very, very pleased.

Hey if you look up apical dominance, you'll see the hormone family Auxins mentioned. Low Stress Training was pretty well figured out on O.G. and is a means of laying all the limbs over horizontally, to the point that as many nodes, on as many limbs, are on the same horizontal plane. It makes the plants go crazy in growth, because all those nodes kept at the same horizontal height don't have the brakes put on growth; the plants do very well.

Most people nowadays don't realize that Low Stress Training is more than random tying; and isn't untying once you start. That's called Partial Low Stress Training when that's done. A full L.S.T. is leveling the nodes on the limbs every 2 to 3 days: once any bud gets higher than the others, it ships Auxin below to the others, slowing their growth. The higher a few buds get, the more Auxin they ship below, slowing the others' growth and freeing up energy for themselves: but a proper L.S.T. that's done till the chop gives more weight than any training method. It takes about 15 to 30 minutes for a typical grow every 3 days or so.

I had bigbuds from that pack from Nirvana giving up more than an ounce of rock hard bud each off a little 250 back in the day; laying them over pays bigtime and those calyxes will fill in from end to end all along the limbs. Hope you enjoy growing out the rest of yours mine were pretty as a picture.
I tried to do LST once and cracked a stem. I realize it's possible to do it without cracking any stems, but I'm still a bit wary. Anyway, I'm not disappointed with the results of topping. I nipped just the very tip off of the top bud, not the whole thing. All the side shoots immediately started growing a lot faster, and I ended up with 23 colas off the main stem, which ended up at a more or less similar height.

As far as trichromes, I have a lot, I guess. The leaves aren't as covered as I've seen in pictures of, say, white widow, but there's definitely trich coverage. I'll take a picture when I harvest, but this HPS light colors all my pictures orange, so you wouldn't see nearly as much detail under that.

Quote Originally Posted by socialistpete
Khronik I had the same heat issues as you and one skunk69 turned hermie and the 2 NLxskunk were fine pulled 12 ounces wet had them in 18 gallons dirt each. I thought i seen a post from you in the local section that said your from the B-lo, if thats right then we both had the same heat issues being from the same area.
Yep, I'm sure it does depend on the breed. Right now I'm doing a grow of Mandala's Satori and Hashberry, since they're supposed to have great heat resistance. Of course, these'll be harvested November-December, so I'll have to worry more about cold than heat. Hope we don't have a repeat of last year's October weather!

I gave away the rest of my Big Bud seeds, since right now I'm more interested in trying out Mandala's strains. Still, this was a fine strain, and everyone who's smoked it so far was surprised at how potent and long lasting the high is. Of course, they're all a bunch of noobs who mainly smoke street weed, but this is still a very well-performing plant.