Easiest way I found to do LST was to take some paper clips, some string and some tape. Open up the paper clip so that you can get it around the stem and then close it. Tie the string to the paper clip and then slowly and gently lay your plant onto the soil or until you feel it getting really flimsy. I went a little bit each day, because as you bend the stem, it heals into that possition and makes it a little bit harder to move as the plant gets older. And with pinching, yes I mean just pinch the stem, not to the point where it is paper thin, but enough that you squeeze it together. This same method relates to your own body muscles, as you work out, you pinch and tear your muscles(that's what makes them get bigger) because as the heal themselves they will actually grow bigger to better protect yourself. so give your stem a little pinch first, then take your paper clip or some sort of weighted object and tie down your plant so that it is as low as possible. Later on if you would like I can show you step by step instructions and the tool needed to top your plant, which will in the end give you a much shorter plant.

good luck and be gentle, girls like it rough but at the same time you need to go easy, they are much smaller than you!

MEME