impact of LST

[budblower10]

thanks alot boss. u actually explained it very well, i am gonna do it in a few weeks and just want to make sure i got it straight. now i realize what people mean, it helped when you said "the top of the plant will want to grow towards the sun, kind of destroying the method of your LST, so tie it down further, and keep doing this until the bush shape forms and you have an even canopy." now it makes sense. one question tho: when should i do this. how old or szie of plant does it need to be? i apprecitace ur help...

[infiniteawesome]

Originally Posted by budblower10

how old or szie of plant does it need to be?

From what I've gathered, LST can be done at any time when the stem is long enough to pull it back so that the lower growth gets more light. One can start very early, but most people I've noticed tend to tie it back once it's about seven or eight nodes high, but you can start around the third node if you'd like.

[TheFxckingHero]

be careful. I've been doing it for a while with great success, but tonight just a few minutes ago I accidentally snapped a stem on one of my best looking females...

[p.s. if anyone knows how to help fix this.. look at my thread in the sick plants and problems forum and help me out]

[TheFxckingHero]

oh and about the impact, it really does make a huge difference. I won't be doing it next grow because that's going to be a sea of green, but I think for any future grow I do other than a sea of green I will LST every time. oh and a good idea if you plan on lsting your plants outside and haven't transplanted them into the ground yet is to put them in their holes at a 45 degree angle when you do go to transplant them. will make it easier for you to tie them down since they'll already be leaning one direction

[budblower10]

alright cool. thefuckinhero, that seems to be very a good idea (putting them in on an angle)....have u personally done it before with success? because heres my situation....maybe u can even help a litte. i have a few plants, about a week old and inch or two high, in 5 gallon buckets. i was going to keep them there and not put in ground because i started late (mid june) and i didnt think that the roots would fill up the bucket because if their immature size. but now im hearing and starting to beleive that just because they were started a little late, doesnt mean that they cant grow pretty big pretty quick and fill the buckets with the roots - becoming root bound and stopping growth. so first off, does that sound plausible...its now june and around here i think they start flowering in august(so it would be about 2 and 1/2 months grow before it began flowering) - so is it still enough time to get pretty good sized? and if so, shold i simply wait to tranplant into the ground before i LST, or should i do it in the bucket somehow and then transplant into the ground with it already LSTed? and it does seem to be a good idea to put it in on an angle, so that its bascically already starting to lean. i really apprecaiate the help

[Marie-jane]

My suggestion to you budblower would be to start lst right now or in the near furtur and only transplant them once the canopy is even. Your 5 gallon bucket should be just fine until you have to transplant them in a month or more b4 flowering starts.

M-J