I am in the middle of my very first grow, so not sure I should be giving advice. I do keep doing LST into flowering but less and less and mostly just to keep all my plants similar height so I can keep the lights close. My oldest is about 2 weeks out from harvest, and I've only done any LST maybe 2x in the past 2 weeks, once to keep a lone cola from poking up too high, and the 2nd time just to pull one into a free space to get more light.
I tried to avoid any undue stress to my flowering plants so they could focus on bud and resin production, so no LST for me during flower. I'm not sure it's shown very well in any of my pics, but I used blocks of wood to level my canopy. Rather than tying down the taller faster growing plants, I prop up the smaller shorter ones from the bottom until they are even with the taller.
Yeah I do that too, use books and boxes to stack the lowest, but I also like pulling down lone stems that would otherwise cause me to raise the lights on plants already sitting on the ground level, to keep the whole canopy relatively flat. Kind of a hybrid between LST and ScrOG.
I've been working a topping / LST combo with some SAGE n Sour that I'm really bushing out for a BIG finish later.. let her grow to a nice christmas tree with a few good strong lower branches, then top her. Stretch out the lower branches laterally over the pot and encourage lateral growth. As new branches sprout from side growth, continue tying for increased lateral expansion. It is looking more like a thick hedge than anything.. but this way the branches will be strong enough to support the weight of the coming bud, plus I've cultivated all those additional bud sites with minimal vertical growth. This approach would also be good for a Scrog, I imagine.
I think I need to get a better loupe / scope. I'm having a hard time seeing the difference.. plus I've still got plenty of white hairs yet to turn orange..
Thanks,.. just trying to get through my first without messing it up. So far I'm pleased with my results.. just trying no to shortchange myself at the end w/ early harvestYour grow looks good,, keep it up
Thanks! I hope you're right.. It'd be nice to have my first harvest ready to smoke for Christmas and New Years!Looking good champ
Not long to go now hey, another week and they should be ideal!!
Nice, mine will be done about the same time too.
You'll have smoke for xmas mate
Plenty of cloudy trichs in there mate, looking great
The new scope will be here Friday.. I'll assess my girls from there. I've gotten some feedback elsewhere that's suggested they have at least another week to go, but we'll see.Plenty of cloudy trichs in there mate, looking great
I'd go another week, won't hurt mateThe new scope will be here Friday.. I'll assess my girls from there. I've gotten some feedback elsewhere that's suggested they have at least another week to go, but we'll see.
Excuse some of the browned tips.. leftovers from some earlier nute burn, and the leaves were too small till now to prune.
Here are some overdue pics. She's on day 40-44ish.. I posted a more exact figure in previous posts, but honestly she got tossed in as an afterthought w/ the Green Crack when I realized they weren't stretching as much as expected roughly 2 weeks after I started the (6) of them.
Went real easy and with much reservation after very clear warnings from eastcoastmo about the use of molasses and it's pitfalls (thanks, by the way ).. Only reason I gave 'em anything at all this late in the game was because it'd been over 3 weeks since the last feeding of bloom ferts (due to infamously short flower time) and I've only given them pH'd water since. I didn't want to shortchange myself at the end.. figured a low dose would do them some good (and hopefully make 'em POP) Thoughts?