HARD ON'S NEW PROJECT

[SiXFeEtDeEp]

Holy shit i most be weed retarded lol. WTF is LST??? lol first time ever seeing that. keep on with the experiment. im learning alot with em keep up the fantastic cultivation

[HARDDON]

MB...

Thanks for the artwork.

I thought LST was more than that. I bent whore over too

I was thinking LST was right next to the earth and forceing the plant to grow well like a vine kindof.

Maybe I am thinking SCROG......

Hmmmmm........ Hard On gonna do some thinking here,,, I gots me an idea.

[SiXFeEtDeEp]

WHATTTTS LLLLL LSSSSSS TTTTT lol

STC

[Max Blast]

BobBong, HD, anybody,

Exactly what do the letters LST stand for?

Can we get a brief descirption of the basic technique?

BobBong, what time is dinner, your avatar looks great.

thanks,
Max Blast

[SiXFeEtDeEp]

found this on Overgrow.com

WHAT IS Less Stree Training (LST)?
Low Stress Training (LST) simply involves tying the plantâ??s main leader down, so it is more or less parallel to the ground. This allows the side shoots to develop into leaders, which eventually become colas. The result is a bushy plant with multiple colas. The more shoots you tie down, the bushier the plant becomes.

LST is an alternative to topping your plant and more advanced topping techniques like FIM. While topping a plant will split the leader into two new shoots (and FIMming can produce even more), some growers notice that their plants seem to stall out for a few days after being topped or FIMmed, while plants that are trained with LST donâ??t seem to slow down at all. This is a hotly debated topic, and the purpose of this FAQ is not to take sides. All I really want to do here is show how LST is done. All growers should experiment with a variety of propagation techniques to see what works best for them.

I plant my seeds in the corners of square pots and wait until they are about 2 weeks old before I start tying them over. By two weeks they generally have 3 or 4 nodes and the stems are thick enough to be pulled over without collapsing or breaking. The first two pictures are a ten-day-old ThaiTanic growing in an unferted mixture of Canadian spagnum peat, perlite, worm castings and dolomite lime. The third is month-old White Rhino.

There are many different ways to tie a plant, and thereâ??s no â??rightâ?� way to do it. When I first got interested in LST, I developed a technique involving a rubber band and some nylon string. All you do is run a thick rubber band around the rim of the pot, tie the plantâ??s leader with the string, then tuck the other end of the string under the rubber band and pull the plant over. As the plant grows you have to retie it periodically to keep the main leader down, but you can easily make adjustments with just a little tug on the other end of the string.

OG member Intrinsic modified the rubber band technique to suit his growing style. Instead of tying the plant, he takes a longer string and loops it around the leader once, then puts both string ends under the rubber band. This saves tying and re-tying the string as the plant grows, and heâ??s had some impressive grows under flouros exclusively doing it this way.

The flouro part is important, because you need a dense, even canopy when youâ??re trying to flower under fluorescent lighting. LST makes that possible, because you can tie down as many new leaders as you want. You can produce plants that look like theyâ??ve been scrogged if you really get into it.

Personally, I usually just go with one tie-down, keeping it in place until flowering begins. When you pull the strings and â??let â??er go,â?� be sure to untie the string(s) from the plant. If you donâ??t, the plant will grow around them (like a tree grows around a strand of barbed wire), and it will weaken it. That raises the question: How long can I train my plant? You can continue training it for its entire life if you like, but in most cases, there's not much point in continuing once your main colas have been identified.

When the main leader is pulled over, my plants develop between 5 and 8 main colas, which is bushy enough for a 4-plant grow in a 3x3 space under a 400 watt hps. Once your colas are established, itâ??s up to your skills as a grower to make them as fat as possible.

for pics and stuff go to.

http://www.overgrow.com/edge/showthr...hreadid=670404

[Marc Benson]

I think LST is whatever you make it HD. You can pull it over so it's horizontal or not. I just read another article on it and they were suggesting that it's a really good technique for people using fluorescents as it takes care (to a degree) of the problem of light penetration to the secondary growth shoots. Basically all of them turn into main colas.

I didn't get that radical with the plant I LST'd. Just pulled it over to the point I could get the CFL's right down next to the new secondary growth with daylight spectrum's and basically 'pulled' the secondaries up as they reached for the light. It worked but I can see where if I had tied it over more horizontal it would've worked better, although it seems to have worked pretty good as it was. I'll take some pics when I pull it out to water it in the next day or so.

Here's a pic of one that was really tied over. You can see how the secondary shoots are all growing up with nothing growing on the bottom side.

[HARDDON]

Thanks guys...that pretty much confirms what I thought.

Ok so LST with a twist is what I shall do

[BobBong]

Hey guys, LST is a great way to control the yield and size of your plant.
Instead of one large main cola and a number of smaller ones.. you get a more "sea of green" idea where the secondary growth grows about the same size as the main cola... sometimes larger.

Here are some examples of some LST'd plants.

Only proving that topping is not the only way to promote the secondary growth

it's a good idea to let the plant stretch a tiny bit before starting the LST.

this can be done by simply placing the lights further away.

[HARDDON]

OK.

I can see what I need to do.

I need to take a little of this and a little of that and some here and some there....

OK.....This weekend shall commence what we will refer to as HARD ON's FUCKED UP LST/SCROG combo

I'll show you guys how to do some real kinky shit....this LST I am referring to makes the tomatos grow like a vine.

Yes....this will be fun.

Of course I got slow growers and I dont like that...but fuck it....we'll do it then share the spoils with you guys.

By Christmas we shall all have some goodies

[Marc Benson]

Looks great Bob!

How long has the plant in pic #4 been flowering?

And are you using just cfl's?

And if so how many and what wattage?

Reason I ask is because I'm using just fluorescents but mostly cfl's with a 2 footer and a 4 footer thrown in there too just cause I like light!! Have 10 lights in there right now.

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