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Thanks for stopping in again, 420! Final yield and smoke reports should be coming this weekend...

gotta go and see what you have been up to lately :jointsmile:





jlve- Welcome and thank you for the kind words!

No, I have not "topped" any of my plants.... at least in the way I understand topping, which is to cut off the top growth. I don't really see the point of irreversibly damaging the plant... However, it's said that topping is a must with some strains, but I don't really know why they wouldn't LST instead. It might be because topping is simple: one snip, and you are done. Great if you have a lot of plants. But, in my case, I had plenty of time to train the girls with both the lst and scrog. It's said that the plant needs 2 weeks to recover from topping, while mine would always start growing for the light again only a few hours after LST.

In pic 4 (post #32), you can however see that I took off everything underneath the canopy. The theory was to get rid of bud sites that would not fully develop, so the plant could use more energy toward the top. I also removed the leaves in the hopes to get more airflow around the plants. The leaves were pretty much just stacked one on top of the other under the screen... not getting light and restricting airflow. Not really sure, though, how easily a plant can choke itself in SCROG, so I might skip the trimming next time and see what happens.

I wouldn't hesitate to LST... even if they are expensive seeds. Pretty hard to screw it up... even if you snap the main stem, you can just give it some support, and it will repair itself in time.

Hope this helps! Feel free to ask if you still have questions, and I will do my best to answer them for you :thumbsup:
Hey thanks for getting back to me...I'm not that experiendced in any scrog methods but i am going to try the Lst method.... I have 5 gallon buckets but until they grow more and after a few transplanting then they will be in the 5 gallon buckets...But i was wondering when i should start Lst??? I was told i could start when the plant reached like 3 or 4 nodes... Also when i start do i just tie like the top of the plant and make it like a U shape facing the ground???Get back to me when you can and also ill be looking at your pics to kind of get a better idea of things...Kind of copy you!!:thumbsup:Great log though man!!!
jlve187 Reviewed by jlve187 on . Two Trainwreck's 400w HPS, LST, Closet Grow First, I have to thank Cannabis.com for the great success of my first grow. I had some problems with temps (being able to close the closet), the smell was leaking out of my apartment, and I didn't have anything to measure pH. I invested a couple hundred euros to fix these problems, and so far, everything seems to be going good. Hereā??s the list: Seeds: Feminized Trainwreck from Greenhouse Seeds Co. Flowering time is 8-9 weeks (Last grow with one of these turned out very nicely!) Rating: 5