It's looking pretty good. I would tie one lower and tie it where it's pulling in the opposite direction. So therefor u will relieve some stress off the roots that the main stem may be pulling up while it's being tied down. Hope this makes sense. Here are a few of mine that I am LST'n.
Looks good, as Mari-Meds suggested though tie a string the opposite of the way you will bend her. Also pull her down more, she will not break, just be careful. \t
Oh man they're beautiful. How old? Cool, thanks a lot both of you. I originally wanted to bend her further, but the bottom half of the stalk has bark already, and it's pretty rigid.. so yeah, erring on the side of caution with that one. She's five weeks old with 5 nodes but the spacing is so tight the plant's only like 6 inches high.
Thanks bro! I've worked my butt off to get them this way ðŸ‘😜 These babies pics where taken this past Monday the 13th so that makes them 6 weeks exactly ðŸ‘😄 Today they are 6 weeks and 3 days. I put them into flower Monday right at 6 weeks from seed. So u said urs is 5 weeks? What nute's are u giving her, if any? Type of soul? Lighting?
This is my first time around, so I have a feeling the knowledge will outweigh the buds.. I made a few mistakes early on- like growing in 60/40 coco with (almost) no nutes for the first three weeks, no cal mag, nuthin. I didn't start 'em in the finish pots and ended up transplanting.. Then I went from CFLs to a 700w Mars II about two weeks in and blasted them from 10 inches away for a week before wising up and raising the lights. Worst of all, I wrongly decided it would be easier to do autos for my first grow. Now I see that was a mistake as the clock starts ticking the minute the seed hits the soil. As much as I fucked it up, I'm learning a lot and hopefully the next ones will be better.
I always show this picture of one of my males I let die, ignore that and look at tie offs and you should get a better idea of what the posters above mean.
There is really no "Wrong way" IF you aren't having your plant just growing straight up, you aren't doing it, that's about it. I use a Yo-Yo Puller to basically pull my plant toward one side, then when the other 1-3 sprouts try and grow up because of it, I pull them to the other end of the plant and just slowly fasten and tie branches to the sides of the pot until I have a good 8-12 all around it and it basically looks like a bush With that being said, a lot of others basically take the head of the plant and pull it to the side, tie it down, and then just tie it around the top of the pot, that is not wrong either. You just want the light hitting the sides of your branches. If you want to see the effect of the way I do mine, it's what I did with the plants in the link in my sig.
Wow, your grow looks great man. Looks like you're about a week ahead of me so I'll definitely watch to see how it goes. So do you feed molasses right from the beginning through seedling?
As others have said - you can tie it down a little lower. You can up-root it without that other tie though. You can also break it, idk why it was said that you can't. I like to tie down shorty after watering when the plant is most flexible. As it grows more I put another tie to hold the new growth down and move the old tie slightly down the plant to keep more of an even pressure throughout the stem than being pulled down from the top twice now. Thats me though.
Yeah, all that makes sense. I took a couple more pics last night.. about 48 hours after the pics on top, so figured I'd update. I did add the second tie and it was pretty obvious how much stress it took off the roots. Anyways it's been growing like a champ with all the newly exposed inter-node shoots really coming to life. A couple things I've noticed- -Growth now appears more chaotic and the larger fan leaves are really starting to need moving to allow continued light where I want it to hit. A couple fan leaves I've had to loosely tie back to other branches, but hopefully not so much they don't get light access. There are a couple large leaf sets that I've had to tuck back and they now lie over other large leaf sets and, when I'm running lights and lift the top leaf, the underlying leaf is drenched with beads of condensation. Is this ok? -Also- since the alternating nodes grow in pretty much regular 90 degree quads, that offers two choices for tying down as I see it- tying down so two nodes are parallel to the ground, one facing straight down, and one straight up... or tying it so that all nodes are "diagonal", no perpendicular or parallel... creating a V-like node growth on top of the lst. Which is better? I chose #2, but I'm starting to think #1 might give a little more exposure.