When, or how, do I begin LST?

[TorturedSoul]

EDIT: Er... Never mind .

 

[Enjoying]

So this info is really late and you have a lot of answers here BUT I wanted to share this thread in case you want to train next grow or for ideas down the road for this one.

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[cbdhemp808]

Hey @bobj, I like to just let my plants do their natural thing... no LST for me. The most radical thing I might do is top a plant once, to help it bush out, but I normally don't even do that. I also do some pruning while they are in flower.

 

[Regrowth]

@bobj, How are they looking now?

 

[Phytoplankton]

Here are a few more screens shots of the plant I was telling you about. Maybe it can help you kinda gage how resilient the plant really are. These plants are topped and trained.

Just a tip, keep an eye on that zip tie, I did something similar once when I performed LST on a plant (with string), I forgot about the string, and one day, a few weeks later, I noticed that a branch was drooping, like lack of water. I then saw that the plant had grown so much the string was cutting off the circulation to the branch.

 

[Phytoplankton]

Here's some pics of my latest grow and the LST. Pretty easy to do, top once at about the 4th or 5th node. I simply pinch off the growth tip when it's still very small, so minimal auxin disruption. The day before topping:

A few days after topping:

About 14 days after topping, with LST:

I recently strung a wire fence and and some top wire left over and made these, you can adjust the length to suit your container: