LSTTT: Low Stress Twisty Tie Training

[Opie Yutts]

Damn, this is a far cry from what I initially set out to do with this grow. I was planning on flowering almost immediately and see what would happen. I've always vegged 1 or 2 months.

[Gundari]

Yea I've been thinking my next grow that I was going to try and mix a little bit of FIMing in with LST, and if that goes well initially (and im not able to see how it wouldn't. Just FIM them when they are about 6 nodes tall and from there start training however many top shoots i get to lay flat.) i may figure out how to fabricate some kinda screen that the pots sit in and scrog it out. My biggest hurdle to get over is that I'm growing in a rubber made setup so that could interfere with the care of the plant (since it will be difficult to move).

[Zcomp]

Look opie, The only downside to LSTing is the unlimited possibility's. I too spent many nights awake contemplating the best move! In the end, You'll be making adjustments and even pruning unnecessary nodes all the way till day 45 of flower(at which point your stems become too brittle). Don't over think this. The beautiful thing about LST is the unlimited possibility's. Stop vegging when you want to. With LSTing you could infinitely improve your arrangement. If your dead set on perfection you'll be LST'ing forever. One plant could literally be trained to your entire grow area.
Then don't forget that your girls will be multiplying in size and nodes(thanks to LSTing) through flowering.

[Opie Yutts]

My biggest hurdle to get over is that I'm growing in a rubber made setup so that could interfere with the care of the plant (since it will be difficult to move).

Why do you move it? Once my grow starts, my plants don't move, except when I'm doing scrog, from the veg chamber to the bud chamber.

[Opie Yutts]

Look opie, The only downside to LSTing is the unlimited possibility's. I too spent many nights awake contemplating the best move! In the end, You'll be making adjustments and even pruning unnecessary nodes all the way till day 45 of flower(at which point your stems become too brittle). Don't over think this. The beautiful thing about LST is the unlimited possibility's. Stop vegging when you want to. With LSTing you could infinitely improve your arrangement. If your dead set on perfection you'll be LST'ing forever. One plant could literally be trained to your entire grow area.
Then don't forget that your girls will be multiplying in size and nodes(thanks to LSTing) through flowering.

Thanks, that helps calm me down a bit.

[Opie Yutts]

Well there I was getting ready to put nutrients into my reservoir. I set the 6.8 PH nutrients for soil down near the 5.5 PH nutrients for hydro. I took a PH reading of the hydro stuff just to make sure it hadn't drifted much since two days ago, then I poured myself a half gallon of it into my watering pitcher and put it in the res. Do you see where I'm going here? Then I took a bong rip. Then I poured myself a half gallon of soil nutrients and poured it in the hydro res. Then I realized what I did. In my defense, the two kitty litter buckets are almost identical, but I know, I'm such a dork.

I think everything will be OK. Just wanted to update you on the grow. It's just about finished flushing now with 3 gallons of PHd water. A full reservoir is 2 gallons for this set up. I might see a little stress because I know from experience that plants don't like PH fluctuations, even if they are within the tolerable ranges. I think 6.8 is outside of those ranges. We'll see. Please say a little prayer for my plants tonight.

[Gundari]

Well to get a good look at the plant and train it further its worlds easier to just pull the bucket its growing it out of the bottom tub and set it up on a table. Allows me to get a good look at the plant and makes training easier.

[Opie Yutts]

Well to get a good look at the plant and train it further its worlds easier to just pull the bucket its growing it out of the bottom tub and set it up on a table. Allows me to get a good look at the plant and makes training easier.

Well having ruptured disks and all, I designed my grow so that my plants end up about chest high, so I don't have to bend over to train them. This temporary one isn't working out quite like that since it's in the wrong position, but oh well, ruptured disks need exercise too I guess. I don't like taking my plants out and setting them on anything. I guess mostly because I'm afraid of crushing roots or getting nutrient solution all over. Different tokes for different folks.

[Opie Yutts]

Oh yeah, I almost forgot to divulge the findings on the foil duct tape experiment: As expected it was a waste of time. Once the heat got ahold of the adhesive, and my superstrong plants got to pushing on the tape, they popped right up. Lesson learned. For this particular brand and model of foil duct tape, it doesn't work real well to hold branches down if 600 watts of HPS is near by. Sorry, not digging it out at this time to tell you what kind it is, but I know there is foil duct tape that is about twice as expensive, and it's rated for hot situations. I'll bet this might work, and why didn't I buy a bunch of that instead of the cheap stuff?

[Opie Yutts]

Well, the last 4 out of 5 posts were started with "well", inclusive.

Who cares, you dipstick?

Huh, who said that?