Hey all,

So I decided to go for some low stress training today. It only took 10 minutes but it saved me over 1 foot of head space for the plants and evened out the canopy.
I felt that one or two of the plants were growing a little stronger than the others and were hogging the LED light just a little too much for the others to catch up in height.

The canopy is in good order now and I'll give the plants a couple of days to settle in before I make any more changes. The leaves and branches all need to rearrange themselves towards the light before I get a good idea of the coverage.

I noticed that the inner branches of the plants, mid way up, are all very very short bud sites. The lower branches did make a spurt to reach the canopy alright. Hmm, I think the position the plants are in right now, 90 degrees, will expose those inner branches and promote more growth. I like to see these branches stretch a little as they are good weed producing sites.

I took a few pictures of my simple method of LSTing. It's nothing new to everyone here but maybe someone might be curious.

The tools I use are, small cables ties, fishing line, a Swiss Army Knife and an electrical snips.
The ties are used about 2/3 of the way up the plant. You can usually tell where the plants will bend without breaking or allowing the node to collapse.
The Swiss army knife is used to tidy the tail off the cable tie and the snips is used to mark the cable ties by squeezing the groves so it cannot close too far and strangle the plant !
Then I just tie the fishing line to the cable tie and pull the plant down carefully to make the top horizontal. I attach the other side of the fishing line to the handle of the bucket. And thats's it.
After this is done it is time to position the plants in the tent again in such a way as to maximise the light on each plant. As I have 4 plants I turn them in a square.
Each plants tops are now over the neighbouring plants bucket, etc etc, etc...
Now the plants will begin to develop more 'tops' so to speak, and should in the end produce more of the good stuff.
I wanted to see if I could grow in my tent without training but it didn't work out. I would eventually have to do it so sooner is better than later as the nodes will become more woody soon.

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