Lst?

I've been doing some reading on LST and have a couple questions if anybody has some experience. I'm new to growing so the thought of cropping or super cropping and all that type of cutting makes me nervous whereas with lst I understand you don't necesarily have to do any cutting but still get the greater yield benefits. My question is what is the best way to tie the plants down? Pipe cleaner to the side of the buckets or metal stakes right into the soil or anything else? Please let me know, thanks!

If you do your super cropping right you wont need to tie the plant down ... Have bean super cropping for 3 or 4 years and i love it !!!!!!! I have tied my plants to the sides of The pail eather drill a hole or i have used duct tape to tape the string/mono line just wrap the line around the tape and stick it to the container..... I dont recomend putting stakes in your soil but if you do be gentle. Good luck happy growing

Pipe cleaner, Plant wire tie, loose string, hell old shoe strings will do. Along side growing one has to be niffty and use a little engineuity!!! I lst all the time. I put a pick up here and let you know.
The best thing to do is know how you want your plant to grow. The idea of lst is to get light to all bud sites. Spread and Spread. The plant will do the rest.

elduderino10 said:

I've been doing some reading on LST and have a couple questions if anybody has some experience. I'm new to growing so the thought of cropping or super cropping and all that type of cutting makes me nervous whereas with lst I understand you don't necesarily have to do any cutting but still get the greater yield benefits. My question is what is the best way to tie the plants down? Pipe cleaner to the side of the buckets or metal stakes right into the soil or anything else? Please let me know, thanks!

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Either of the ways you mentioned are doable. I myself drill screws to the pots and run twine across making a net.

calicat said:

Either of the ways you mentioned are doable. I myself drill screws to the pots and run twine across making a net.

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So with having a net, in theory, its like each individual plant has its own little scrog? Interesting, I think I might try the soft pipe cleaners to duct tape for time being, thanks for the words all!

Hey, I'm doing this for the first time right now, and I think it's really successful in controlling height and creating an even canopy.

I have two hydro buckets in a tent, and here's how I'm doing it.

I needed something that attached to each lid independently so I could service my two reservoirs 2xday. I also wanted something super lightweight. And CHEAP. So I took 12" bamboo skewers and taped two together to make a 15" skewer. Repeated this until I had 12 15" bamboo lengths. I gaffer-taped them together so that there are three skewers on each side around 2 inches apart and a 5x5" open square in the middle (for the plant). I then taped this bamboo grid to the lid. And repeated for the second lid. This gives me TONS of places to LST to. Then to LST, I use long gardening twistie ties.

Cost: $1.99 in bamboo skewers and I think $2.99 in twistie ties.

WORKS GREAT!!!!

There is no need to be afraid of super cropping. The branch won't break in half like a dry stick no matter how much you bend it.

I've just been using nylon twine to bend the main stem down as far as it will go without it breaking.
You loop it around the stem once so it has room to get fatter, and loop it around the side of the pot.

Here is the lst i did with a plant of mine with nylon twine:

Yarn wrapped around the base of the pot, then tied to different parts of the plant worked well for me! My plants have grown to look almost like bonsai trees from it.