New Grower to lst or not to lst?

[gonza]

yes ayas - first thread

my plants are 3,5 weeks old now and i never done this before so im looking for some feedback on the development.

Set up: 3 1000watt hps,18/6 cycle, soil 1/4 perlite mix
started with the seeds straight into 5 liter pots,soil 1/3 perlite mix.

All seeds came up nicely although a few seedlings did bend and broke the stem,1 of them survived and is a
midget.

I probably had too much light on them at the beginning,lights were too close and too much heat,did not know about proper temps,luckily none got very damaged,slight upwards curving on the leaf edges.
Temps are much better now,around 24c-30c daycycle and around 14c-18c darkcycle (still working on a fix,im changing the cycle so its the lights are on in the night and off during the hot part of the day(northern hemisphere climate).

just gave them a mild fert. and got some brown tips on the upper new leaves on some of them,i hope they willl b arite.

heres a pick on 1 of the plants,there are some bigger and some smaller but this one represents the average.

Is it to late too start lst on them now?

Id appreciate some feedback on the overall development

boom!

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[Balarama]

Not too late but approach carefully, you can just open the branches a bit and so let more light to the bottom.

 

[stepside]

In my opinion its never to late to start LST. I think plants love it. Phototropism look it up

 

[gonza]

nice-ill do it then, thanx for the help!

 

[stepside]

I'm by no means an expert but I think LST is way better than cutting.

 

[BigBowlBaggins]

I am still a noob to the Auto but I have spent a LOT of time researching and I have heard overwhelmingly so that supercropping can stress out an auto. Balarama said it right. Place some wedges between your branches to open them up and allow more light to the center of the plant but i wouldnt bend or supercrop to much. With a auto you only have so much time to get as much growth as possible so be delicate and they wont have stunted growth. Another tip is to tuck your fan leaves under new or smaller growth good luck bud!