Excellent work. Keep her low and stretched out for a while. I'd keep training her till she starts flowering which isn't far away. At that point the stretch will give you many large colas.So, this morning I checked out @InTheShed LST post again and tried to recreate what I could with my plant at this time. Not sure if I accomplished what I was set out for. But this is now how the lady sits. If anything could be changed please let a brotha know.
I don't think so. Just continue to add a further tie as the plant's main stem grows so the plant is gently encouraged to continue growing out on the comfortable lean she's already on, what you are doing is considered 'low stress', higher stress training can trigger the plant to hermie in some strains, but so far, touch wood, that hasn't happened to me and I've given my plants quite a lot of stress with my training needs as I can't let them get above 2.5 feet high, it's not ideal but I still got a useful yield of 23oz off 3 plants last grow.
So what will happen to the branches that are on the bent side of the plant, will they eventually grow upward and get more sunlight?
Yes they will respond to their 'new' bent over position and grow upwards to the light. It will start showing quite quickly and the growth the follows will all be upwards. The resulting shape will be a canopy where the buds/colas are more level and therefore getting very good similar light, as opposed to an untrained 'Christmas tree' shape. You can see that on InTheSheds pictures.
Lovely looking plants BT. I think ogkev has a height limit that he is applying LST to ensure it doesn't start getting his neighbor's attention. I'm the same, on my balcony I can only let them get 2.5 feet tall but wish I could grow freely outside and grow some real trees! Cheers.
I'm living it. Let them grow out about 4-5 inches and tie them in directions that expose new growth. Once your done remove any fan leaf blocking the youngsters. Dont be shy...shes going to grow many more. I'm glad to hear stunger mention broken limbs. Hence the reason I use pliers if I fear a break. Softens the bend. Don't be gentle with them. The more you bend n twist the stronger the stems will become. Yep, stress can cause a hermie. I agree with stunger on that but like he said you rarely see it. Most are from heat, light leaks, or that guy growing out a seed he found in a good bag of weed.. Then goes on to explain that he was taking pics during their light cycle....lol.UPDATE:
Hello all, today after leaving the plant bent over for about 24 hours, I decided to take a look and see how everything is responding. I as well at the same time did a little pruning by removing 3 fans. I can now see why people use the LST method, this lady has made herself very wide. After removing the fans, I can see what people mention as the canopy, shes grown everything in a uniform height. I did however have to take a couple of the lower back branches and manipulate their location. I have some bamboo skewers from kabobs to redirect them so they now sit in a better location. Ill keep this method going because shes looking super fine with it.
Hey, stop showing off you prick...No wonder you dick is green. Its wearing off of your thumb......I used to prune all my plants and train them but now i only do that indoors under lights because that is were you see the best results.When outdoors now i feed heavy and let the sun do all the work.No training or pruning outdoors.
Absolute torture to see those but gotttt dammnn theyz pretty.
I had noticed I think the same characteristics that you are seeing in my last grow. There were lots of little pin prick marks appearing and eventually I noticed when blowing up close up pictures, there was lots of tiny tiny black dots that seemed to be little mites, not spider mites altho I got them too. It is in my journal but I can't remember whereabouts offhand. The upshot was I sprayed a mix of Dr Bronner's liquid castille soap, insecticide soap and neem oil. Which seemed to work well but in hindsight I wished I'd jumped on it sooner. My next grow I wont wait for the bugs to come I will be preemptively spraying.
If you can, try to spray under the leaves too. Cheers.
