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This is the predicament I just got passed. I decided to lose the lst completely although I had originally planned to use it during flower to continue the management of the plant. A common practice for many growers. However, it does increase stress and would ultimately increase the chance of a hermie to what extent.... IDK I am thinking not by much. A chance I couldn't take in my current position of one seed, no access to addition. Anyways I decided to lose the lst and bring back the implementation of the scrog. Now in just the first week of flowering, and now just getting into the stretch it is a decision I am not upset I made. The scrog, although the stress seems to be just as much as the lst........ has benefits that seem to outweigh the lst. The control of the plant is quiet superior in my opinion atleast to bring you into and finish flowering. From scrog you can still control and manipulate height, and the biggest advantage ive found is the ability to control penetration of light without defol, and pulling branches away from eachother like in lst. With the scrog another advantage is support of bud sites, atleast with true scrog. You have some tall plants with nice long branches so LST would probably be very usefull. My plant went 47 days of veg and only reached 8'' of total height. Topped on 2 occasions for 4 main colas and some lollipopping was also used. This also included removing complete nodes. Haha I just rambled a whole lot and got no where. Lol as I look at your plants in my inexperienced opinion I would use supercropping. Lower the overall height even the canopy a bit and still not lose the size. Youtube it your plants look like primo examples of a plant to use it with.
Ah here you are. I bumped into you on Phantomgrow's scrog journal the other day when you were asking whether you could still scrog at this height. To which I say yes, for sure. Looks like you'll have to do something anyway, with the two taller plants especially. Interested to see what you come up with.
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I'll be doing two triels netting, on for lower manipulation and one for higher elevation. Possibly fan the leaves out.
Later this evening I'll have natural light photos
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Also, when changing the light cycle should I tranistion 24hr absolute darkness or go straight in to new light cycle
Later this evening I'll have natural light photos
!Also, when changing the light cycle should I tranistion 24hr absolute darkness or go straight in to new light cycle
I would just flip it straight to 12/12. People try all sorts of funky transitions, but they don't seem to make much difference from what I can see.
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PTSD 4 ME
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Just a small fyi.... Im sure you are fine with your clones they look like good clippings. But they hate the exposure to air. Idealy you would want to clip, and immediately either get them into direct water or into their resting place. The exposure to air is just a no go as far as clones go. Good luck on em!!!
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Most def brotha, those were just snippings. I just was a bit lazy to get natural light photo... It's a pain these plants want to countiue to grow any place possible... So these low shooters had to go lol
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Oh I thought you were cloning. I took off some of those too, kinda just nutrient suckers.
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Not necessarily growing any differently,
altering the way I'm going to scrog/trilse.
My larger plants are pretty much 30"L x 26"W NLB
While the LS is 38"Length x 34"W
None of the plants ever had stress applied to their stems, so I'm pretty much making my own net, or conventional bamboo or gardening stakes
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Drop a net on em let them figure out how they want to grow. Like I said too look up supercropping on youtube. I really think it would be a good option if you have some time before flowering. If not then just net em down.
I think it was Hiker who was using tomato cages stuck in the pots as a scrog alternative. Worth a google.
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Has anyone tried a section of utility panel or field fence for a scrog? A friend used a cut-to-size utility panel (4"x4") and it worked well. Yes, tomato cages work well too, I have a few ready to use when the time comes.
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Hi Keef happy Saturday's night! 
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PTSD 4 ME
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With rope or twine whatever you can get a bit of movement in the ropes to change where exactly you want the tops to come up or go under. If its metal you lose that choice.
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