LSTTT: Low Stress Twisty Tie Training

[stonerbob]

Thanks man. I'll wait on the LST

[Opie Yutts]

opie, are u saying you normally top more? more than once?
what kinda schedule do you use when u top, or multi-top.

just me, but im starting to think 'top once with some lite LST'.

Yes, I normally will top 2-4 times per grow. There is no schedule or pattern. Just when I think it looks like I need a certain plant to be more bushy or to stop growing so tall, I'll go ahead and top. My veg area has limited vertical space, plus I usually try to get a couple extra branches for my screen.

PS. It seems like topping does the opposite of stressing my AK-47. She goes crazy mad.

[Balkey]

Oh I love the drying machine you got there Opie. I would bet it might take 30 minutes for them to dry with that!!!!!:stoned::stoned:

Is that a trashcan under the screen to catch debris? I just love it!!!! hahaha. I'd say at least an O from that plant. Buds are looking tasty though. :hippy:

[Opie Yutts]

I'd say at least an O from that plant.

Oh, I would love that. I'm not quite sure I share your optimism. We shall see in a few days.

[Opie Yutts]

I'm pretty sure I'm going to pull the mid health range plants this evening. They've got some good amber going, and an occasional clear still left. The yellowing is starting to eat into the parts of the leaves that are covered in trichomes, and that's a no-no for my style.

If anyone reading would be so kind as to help me with some sexing, please go here: http://boards.cannabis.com/basic-gro...sex-me-up.html

Here are some new photos of the mother section right after a tie down session. The first one is my bonsai AK-47, and the other one is likely a temporary BBxNL mother that took like 4 months or something to decide to start revegging. They look a little trashed? Really? Well sometimes that happens when you don't look in on them for a week. They had grown into the light and got burned, at some point they ran out of water and nearly died, and somewhere in there the light stopped working. If anyone has any ideas as to why my fluorescent tubes keep doing this I would be grateful if you shared. If I unplug the light and plug it back in, the lights go on again and everything is fine for a day or 2.

[Mr. Clandestine]

If anyone has any ideas as to why my fluorescent tubes keep doing this I would be grateful if you shared. If I unplug the light and plug it back in, the lights go on again and everything is fine for a day or 2.

It kinda sounds more like an issue with the ballast or fixture itself, rather than the bulb. I had a fluorescent fixture in my kitchen that started doing something similar, and it turned out that the contact pins on the tube weren't always making full contact with the ballast and completing the circuit. Mine was probably about seven or eight years old, though.

There's a lot of cool information at this site, and some resources to help you troubleshoot: Lighting Resource Maybe that'll give you an idea what you're dealing with.

And those mothers look fine! Luckily for us, these hardy plants can also tolerate absentmindedness from their gardeners. May they give you abundant clonage! :jointsmile:

[MVP]

I'm pretty sure I'm going to pull the mid health range plants this evening. They've got some good amber going, and an occasional clear still left. The yellowing is starting to eat into the parts of the leaves that are covered in trichomes, and that's a no-no for my style.

I agree, chop them fuckers down brotha before they smoke themselves!!

They look a little trashed? Really? Well sometimes that happens when you don't look in on them for a week. They had grown into the light and got burned, at some point they ran out of water and nearly died, and somewhere in there the light stopped working.

Well thank goodness they are a WEEEEEEEED, right? Just go ahead and try to kill them. They'll come back. Wanna bet?

[Opie Yutts]

This is my first grow and im trying LST on my 3 week old. Is this too early? How often am I supposed to rotate the plant from screw to screw. Am I doing it halfway right? Any advice would be much appreciated.

I would probably wait a little longer, but as long as she can handle it without stressing it's OK. I don't know what screw to screw means, but all you do is tie or wire down the main shoots, so that preferably they are lower than the other shoots that you want to become main shoots too.

[Weedhound]

opie, are u saying you normally top more? more than once?
what kinda schedule do you use when u top, or multi-top.

just me, but im starting to think 'top once with some lite LST'.

FREEZE MISTER! :wtf:

[Opie Yutts]

Mr. C. I agree that it's probably a ballast issue. We get a lot of power outages here, and spikes and drops. It can't be too good for electronics. That is my 3rd light. I don't know if they will tolerate another exchange. Actually I'd say it's time to get my money back and try a different brand. Just got some T-5's, we'll see how they hold up in there. Thanks for the link.