Greenfingers tips on topping lst etc

GreeenFingers;2915049 said:

Hey growtohealme


Your thread was revealed to me by Snid to see if I could help out with your SCROG and I'm delighted to be along for the ride and help you out in any way that I can


When training for SCROG you have a few options that I will try to explain the pros and cons here.


TOP Removes the very top growing point of a branch, creating 2 branches in its place. The plant, unless quite big, will slow its growth to make the repairs and create 2 new tops in its place, on a small plant this may slow growth down by up to a week.

FIM Fuck I missed, Removes a section of the growing tip, basically mutilating the top but I find this can slow the plant down even more than topping, but with this technique we can create 4 tops.

I usually only TOP and FIM to create branches to take clones from. Or if I have lots and lots of time to train the plant before it goes into the flower room.

LST Low Stress Training ( there are variations on this such as FLUXing which is just an advanced form with specific bending patterns ) This technique involves tying down the plant to one side and allowing all of the side shoots to become new tops. I find this technique to be the most efficient with cannabis. When a plant with say 5 nodes is tied down, you will have 10 tops shooting up in their place within the same time as TOPPING would have 2 and a FIMMing would have 4.

This is a great way to fill a SCROG quickly

SUPERCROPPING Squeezing branches and below growing tips of the tallest tops to damage the stem so that it becomes sort of floppy and you can bend it over below the height of the other tops. This tricks the plant into thinking it does not have a primary growing branch any more so all other tops explode in growth to try and become the new primary top.

This is a great technique for maintaining evenness across the canopy whether using a SCROG or not.


I usually SUPERCROP in combination with LST for filling my SCROG and get fantastic results.


If you would like to see my SCROG the Blue Link in my signature will take you there, I'm on day 27 of flower now so things are starting to fill up nicely I usually go into a lot of detail in my updates so there may be some helpful information in there for you.


I wish you the best of luck and hope I helped you out somewhat


Keep up the great work




GreenFingers

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