Grow Room I need help with LST

[Melin]

I read lots of articles and watched planty of videos, but im lost...

I tryed to LST my girl today, maybe it was a little late, did i do it right, or how should i fix it? Im affraid to broke the stem

She is in airpot, about 4weeks old.

Please, take a look to my photo and help me to use LST right.

Thank you!

 

[Free Flow]

Nothing to be worried about, looks good, should be growing vertically again in now time, then you can bend her again

 

[7.62]

There used to be a thread on how to LST, but I can't find it!

 

[McDee]

You look fine, I would have done a little sooner. I start early into their life tho, and I'm hard on them. I do a lot of supercropping too cant be afraid of breaking them, they are stronger than you think. Sometimes an accidental break will help you out lol. If you break something tape up with electrical tape. When its healed you can take tape off but I'll just leave on normally.

 

[STILLSMOKIN]

I read lots of articles and watched planty of videos, but im lost...

I tryed to LST my girl today, maybe it was a little late, did i do it right, or how should i fix it? Im affraid to broke the stem

She is in airpot, about 4weeks old.

Please, take a look to my photo and help me to use LST right.

Thank you!

Looks fine, water an hour before training and they tend to bend a lot easier.

Might also want to lower light she's a bit too stretchy.

 

[Kinezokyprios]

No need to worry about LST . I practice it many years both indoors and outdoors (for stealth since it is illegal to grow weed in Greece). I also heavily defoliate my plants. With autoflowers I avoid topping FIMing and supercropping, but they do help in certain situations, like with accidents or to reduce height when the strain cannot be contained by
LST. Perhaps topping at an early stage can help with some strains that do not branch out a lot or they are very short and can help increase your harvest. you can do pretty much the same things that you do with photoperiods during vegetation, as long as you have the luxury to wait a few more weeks for a bigger harvest (instead of ten weeks to harvest on the 16th week).

 

[Tommy Bahama]

It looks like you just tried to "tip it over" when you did the LST. This works when the plant is very young, but as it gets older, then stem gets thicker and stiffer.
The trick is to just put a whole bunch of slight, easy bends in the stem using your thumb, forefinger and middle finger - or use both of your thumbs. Do this all the way down the length of the stem and you will get a nice comfortable curve.
You can use this method to do LST on much older, larger and stiffer plants than you have right now.

 

[Tommy Bahama]

Words may not make it clear what I was talking about, so I took a couple of photos.

 

[Kinezokyprios]

It looks like you just tried to "tip it over" when you did the LST. This works when the plant is very young, but as it gets older, then stem gets thicker and stiffer.
The trick is to just put a whole bunch of slight, easy bends in the stem using your thumb, forefinger and middle finger - or use both of your thumbs. Do this all the way down the length of the stem and you will get a nice comfortable curve.
You can use this method to do LST on much older, larger and stiffer plants than you have right now.

I agree about old branches. Watering one or two hours in advance helps a lot as well.

But LST must start at a very early age, 10 to 15 days old. You need patience, a vision of how you want the plant to grow, the right genetics and the right container. Bear in mind that the roots follow the canopy underground so in reality with LST you are shaping the roots not the above ground vegetation

 

[Loopdub]

try something like this you are on the right track just remember the objective is to kind of isolate each major bud site so they can grow to their full potential instead of turning to larf on the bottom of the plant. or if you are topping them go with something like the second plant first 2 is banana blaze by DP the rest are forbidden runtz by fastbuds.