can't tell you specifics, that's just going by everything i've read.

LST = Low Stress Training. the operative word being stress. yes this stresses the plant. when you bend it over the auxin is re-routed to the auxillary bud primordium as the plant continues in it's search for light.

once you hit flower you want the least amount of stress on the plant that you can. there are many stress factors that can cause a plant to hermi. light, nutes, heat etc.

best guess. i'm not saying that you can't get away with it during the first few weeks of flower. but why risk (not to mention the rest of your crop!) it when all you had to do was stop two weeks prior?

best guess.


-shake