Quote Originally Posted by ridethefire
Yep... Def. going to have to get a garden going for next year. Plants are too fun to just grow 1 species.

Can you LST garden plants for any beneficial gain?

Also, You top between the 4th and 5th nodes (for MJ)?
I don't know about LST'ing garden plants per se, but if I had to start somewhere it would be training my tomatoes diagonally so the plant gets more light. But the plain boring tomato-stake method works okay for me!

I top AFTER at least 5 nodes... I basically wait for signs of side growth to form on their own. Some strains don't take well to topping; the ones that want it will definitely tell you in their own planty way. MY rule of thumb is if there's a bunch of side growth by the 5th or 6th node, that plant wants to be a big ol' shrub!


F[r]og, I see those silly multi-fruit trees in garden catalogs all the time and have yet to see one work the way it's supposed to! Kind of curious though... did it have like 5 different colors of flowers in spring too?