itsgrowinglikeaweed
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I like to tie my ladies down! 
So I'm starting the The Great RIU LST Thread. Where we can all share our techniques for LST (Low Stress Training). Discuss how, why, and perhaps where you have your ladies tied, strapped, tucked, stapled, or otherwise trained! There are so many ways to do it for and abundance of reasons. And its fun too! So hopefully we can get some people posting pics of their methods and have a nice resource here on RIU for Low Stress Training
My very first grow was shared here on RIU. I'm on my 4th grow now, and my 2nd using LST. I'm convinced that If your growing indoors (and that's why I put this in the indoor forum) you should definitely consider some form of LST.
I wanted to do something so I didn't have to put a hole in my pots to tie strings to, which seems to be a very popular (although somewhat destructive) method. So I came up Skewers! Its so easy and very gentle on the plant.
I take regular wooden skewer and I tape a small hook on the end of it. Its easily adjustable. Just pull out the hook and reposition as you need to. No strings attached! For the hook I use a piece of metal coat hanger. I have a couple different sizes. Sometimes a longer skewer is necessary to tie branches down. Couple times on my last grow she pulled the skewer out of the ground and tried to escape! But I was using shorter skewers then because I was a little worried about stabbing her roots ya know. But no worries, she don't seem to mind that a bit. I started with 1 skewer and used as many as 12 at one time.
My plants are 78 days old today and have been 12/12 for 24 days. The 1st 50 days they were under CFL's, that's why they're small for their age. Now they have a 400W HPS to flower. From the surface of the dirt she's only 15 inches tall. She would be 3 feet easy if she wasn't trained. I was doing my best to keep a nice level canopy, with light getting to as many tops as possible. In the 2nd picture the actual top of the plant is in the dead center. This plant has about 14-16 tops!
Ok I showed you mine, now I wanna see yours! All questions, comments, ideas, and concerns are welcomed and encouraged. This is YOUR thread RIU, I just started it for us.
So I'm starting the The Great RIU LST Thread. Where we can all share our techniques for LST (Low Stress Training). Discuss how, why, and perhaps where you have your ladies tied, strapped, tucked, stapled, or otherwise trained! There are so many ways to do it for and abundance of reasons. And its fun too! So hopefully we can get some people posting pics of their methods and have a nice resource here on RIU for Low Stress Training
My very first grow was shared here on RIU. I'm on my 4th grow now, and my 2nd using LST. I'm convinced that If your growing indoors (and that's why I put this in the indoor forum) you should definitely consider some form of LST.
I wanted to do something so I didn't have to put a hole in my pots to tie strings to, which seems to be a very popular (although somewhat destructive) method. So I came up Skewers! Its so easy and very gentle on the plant.
I take regular wooden skewer and I tape a small hook on the end of it. Its easily adjustable. Just pull out the hook and reposition as you need to. No strings attached! For the hook I use a piece of metal coat hanger. I have a couple different sizes. Sometimes a longer skewer is necessary to tie branches down. Couple times on my last grow she pulled the skewer out of the ground and tried to escape! But I was using shorter skewers then because I was a little worried about stabbing her roots ya know. But no worries, she don't seem to mind that a bit. I started with 1 skewer and used as many as 12 at one time.
My plants are 78 days old today and have been 12/12 for 24 days. The 1st 50 days they were under CFL's, that's why they're small for their age. Now they have a 400W HPS to flower. From the surface of the dirt she's only 15 inches tall. She would be 3 feet easy if she wasn't trained. I was doing my best to keep a nice level canopy, with light getting to as many tops as possible. In the 2nd picture the actual top of the plant is in the dead center. This plant has about 14-16 tops!
Ok I showed you mine, now I wanna see yours! All questions, comments, ideas, and concerns are welcomed and encouraged. This is YOUR thread RIU, I just started it for us.
