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led1k

led1k

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INF Flux said:
What I do is remove the tips of the leaves where the growth hormone is located. This causes the plant to react as if it was topped, but leaves the central trunk intact to resume growth once it heals.
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Never heard of that way. I'm a fan of LST mostly because I don't have to remove any of the plant. Have you compared the two methods?
 
INF Flux

INF Flux

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led1k said:
Never heard of that way. I'm a fan of LST mostly because I don't have to remove any of the plant. Have you compared the two methods?
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I don't know about compare, but I did try lst and use it as needed sometimes during stretch but for training the plant I like this way. I have no hard data to back it up, but lst is messing with the stem, this only messes with leaves that will later be overgrown anyways. Seems to me like this is less stress.
 
Or_Gro

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INF Flux said:
I don't know about compare, but I did try lst and use it as needed sometimes during stretch but for training the plant I like this way. I have no hard data to back it up, but lst is messing with the stem, this only messes with leaves that will later be overgrown anyways. Seems to me like this is less stress.
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Pulling the growing tips down where light won’t later penetrate redirects energy to tips that will get good light. As part of that, the stem/branch diameter where tips were removed gets bigger. Imo, big pipes and bright lights are the two most important things a grower can do....
 
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Or_Gro said:
Pulling the growing tips down where light won’t later penetrate redirects energy to tips that will get good light. As part of that, the stem/branch diameter where tips were removed gets bigger. Imo, big pipes and bright lights are the two most important things a grower can do....
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Agreed, but I'm not sold on bigger=better, Strong muscles create a swollen appearance in humans, so does injury. I'm just trying to get the plant as close to how it would grow if left on its own, except bushy with an even canopy, lol.. I'm a bit to clumsy for lst perhaps, have had the occasional snap! NOOOOOOOOooooooooooooo! :oops: Not saying that it cant work better for others, just not my go to.

Had ambers all up in the bewitched so she is hanging in 65f at 66%. putting the first Dark Helmet in for sexing. I'll rotate them through as space opens up.

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The Dancehall/Cherrygasm is close I think, if anyone has any pointers on high CBD strains and ripeness, I'd love to hear it. I'm thinking a couple more days?

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Or_Gro

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INF Flux said:
Agreed, but I'm not sold on bigger=better, Strong muscles create a swollen appearance in humans, so does injury. I'm just trying to get the plant as close to how it would grow if left on its own, except bushy with an even canopy, lol.. I'm a bit to clumsy for lst perhaps, have had the occasional snap! NOOOOOOOOooooooooooooo! :oops: Not saying that it cant work better for others, just not my go to.

Had ambers all up in the bewitched so she is hanging in 65f at 66%. putting the first Dark Helmet in for sexing. I'll rotate them through as space opens up.

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The Dancehall/Cherrygasm is close I think, if anyone has any pointers on high CBD strains and ripeness, I'd love to hear it. I'm thinking a couple more days?

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The weed is so adaptable, everyone can do it their way....
 
INF Flux

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lukio said:
pretty mad diary haha! cheers.

Dancehall/Cherrygasm looking ripe to me but its all preference, man.

measure once drill twice made me lol!

subbed up :leaf:
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Thanks man, welcome. Maybe in the morning I'll check a final time.

Or_Gro said:
The weed is so adaptable, everyone can do it their way....
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For real, so many different ways to do it can be a bit overwhelming. A training technique side by side might be a cool thing just not sure I want to flower that many of the same cut. Without that it can get real subjective.
 
led1k

led1k

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INF Flux said:
I don't know about compare, but I did try lst and use it as needed sometimes during stretch but for training the plant I like this way. I have no hard data to back it up, but lst is messing with the stem, this only messes with leaves that will later be overgrown anyways. Seems to me like this is less stress.
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If you can bend the growing tip down without breaking it and retain the leaves (and growth hormones) the plant has already produced it just seems like a win/win. Cutting material that would be available to harvest more light seems counter productive. Two steps forward (plant grows new stuff), 1/2 step back (take new stuff off)?
 
Or_Gro

Or_Gro

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led1k said:
If you can bend the growing tip down without breaking it and retain the leaves (and growth hormones) the plant has already produced it just seems like a win/win. Cutting material that would be available to harvest more light seems counter productive. Two steps forward (plant grows new stuff), 1/2 step back (take new stuff off)?
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Hormones are in apical meristem (tips) not leaves...

It’s all about light after dealing with apical dominance: you can do it by bending and positioning or removing, one way is faster effect than the other - removing
 
INF Flux

INF Flux

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led1k said:
If you can bend the growing tip down without breaking it and retain the leaves (and growth hormones) the plant has already produced it just seems like a win/win. Cutting material that would be available to harvest more light seems counter productive. Two steps forward (plant grows new stuff), 1/2 step back (take new stuff off)?
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I dunno, doing it this way seems to not slow it down at all while still signaling the rest of the plant to branch.
 
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