What is lst

Slowly bending the plant sideways tying it down to help increase your yield with more colas pretty much.

 

ScRog and LST are alike in that your goal is to create many colas. LST is like scrog but without the screen with similar results. It's basically saying using a screen versus using something to tie it down with. Another goal in common is the even canopy. Both take advantage of what happens when your plant grows horizontally. .

 

I prefer LST but to each his own as long as it works for you.

 

LST is very easy. I have holes I drilled all around the top edge of my pots to have ready-made anchor points, and then I use pipe cleaners to hold down the plants. Fast and easy to adjust. To me, scrog is much less convenient with the plants woven into the screen, harder to rotate the plants throughout the grow to expose light to all sides and to take the plants out of the grow space to tend to them and haul them up to the bathroom for flushing, etc.

But you're really asking what to do about a too-tall plant. For that you can tie down the plant but you won't be able to tie it all down at once, the main stalk will be too stiff. So pull it down until there's some good tension on the string and leave it like that for a few days, you'll find that the stem has adjusted to the tension and you can tighten the string pulling it down some more, and so on adjusting every few days and so lowering the plant gradually without snapping it.