sorry about that KL4 i guess i didnt explain that part

what i do is just tie them back down going in a circle around the pot, so at first you tie her off at 90degress then a few days later the cola catches back up, now when you tie back down just follow the edge of the pot until you either made a complete circle or she is ready to flower.

this can takes weeks before you make it fully around the pot plus she gets a bit taller over time so becareful to leave room to water her somehow.

you dont have to leave multiple ties on her either just move it up a node or 2 and retie her down and thats that

Good thread, Invision. You do good LST work. I always like it when someone starts a thread like this with the NAME in the TITLE so people can search for it easier.

I think you meant SCRoG.

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hey thanks Fog

yeah i did mean scrog but SOG is just another method without the screen so either can be the same i suppose, you should LST a crop one time to see what you think of it Fog you may like it.

When should you top if your LSTing????

Well, Invision...SOG is not really the same as SCROG without a screen. They are completely different growing methods, from what I understand.

SCROG = Training your plant so that it bushes out, then training each branch through a wire screen to direct light onto all budsites equally. This requires massive training and lots of attention. You can get a good harvest off of just a couple plants. See justaseed's lovely ladies thread. Pimp shit. Canuckgrower has some plants that could probably be thrown under a screen nicely.

SOG = Growing MANY plants, all with one main cola. This requires lopping off most of the bottom growth of a plant, to let the plant focus on the top cola, which also means you can fit many more plants into the same growing area. Look at MULLETMAN's grow for something SIMILAR to a SOG. He had 12 plants under one 400w.

ToKAlot, you don't really HAVE to top if you are LSTing. Many people actually don't. They just bend the top of the plant over to get the main growth tip BELOW the other tips. This allows the plant to devote the main growth hormones to the other tips instead of the original main tip. There is a really cool diagram out there somewhere (for all I know, It is in this thread) that shows how you can LST the plant in a spiral pattern around the pot.

Another way is to top the plant when it has about 5-6 nodes, then train all the remaining shoots so that the plant ends up like a Pimp goblet. Check the JOURNAL to see what I'm talking about. It's buried in there somewhere.


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im giving myself a bump cause its just a damn good thread to waste

yep now find us that diagram!

OK, now if I can make my plants grow like pimp goblets, I will be the shit...

I have 6 new rooted plants coming from my co-op at the end of the month, so after they've settled in I'm gonna go goblet style.

I know with my first grow, which is coming to a close, I started lst'ing them and then all hell broke loose in the rest of my life and I had to let them go, so I didn't get the main cola all the way round the pot like I wanted to, so I got some crazy tall side shoots, but they're making huge colas ala the main cola, in some cases bigger than the main cola.

LST works, that's for sure, even if done half-assed as I did...

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If you do top it's best to get them when they're very young so the split will be low and it gives the plant plenty of time to recover. I usually pinch off the 4th or 5th node as soon as it is pinchable. This way you can train both stems resulting from it to grow in two opposite directions. Once several inches have grown on each stem I take a 1" thick strip of duct tape and wrap it around the trunk where the split begins to stop it from tearing once the training begins.

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great thread all my questions answered

looks great, but what does the 1-6, 2-6 etc mean on that diagram, is that weeks one through six?

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first number is the step and the second is pot size.

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