Low Stress Training (LST) Guide

Is it too late to lst if your already a week into flowering?

CFlo92 said:

can you lst a plant a good ways and fim the new shoots?

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I'm LST, fimming, and topping for a big bush for scrogging

33 Days Flowering

gioua said:

1st attempt @ LST

before and after shots taken 10 days apart

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Update on the ladies..

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that's awesome gioua!

I've scrogged, topped, cropped, bend and pinched, but first time LST. Loving it so far.

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Plant in center front:

Here's a couple of views of the one I have going:

An earlier one:


More recent:


For the hooks, I use lengths of heavy wire bent over at one end. A roll of one or two hundred feet is only a few bucks, and I can cut and bend as needed.

grate tut man im guna lst my lemon og

The plants from before now look like this:

Here is my girl from outside that I have Lst some. I clones that were recently potted and I will be growing them indoors so I will be using this method. Great tutorial!! Any advice is appreciated if you see anything amiss!!

And I take it that your plants should be in their final pot for doing LST.

here's where 6 weeks and a bunch of LST have left me

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Lowes sells a roll of whats basically a 200 foot twisty tie...under $6. Might be too thin for a larger plant but then again who waits for a plant to get big before deciding to tie it down.

grasscropper said:

And I take it that your plants should be in their final pot for doing LST.

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Not necessarily. You do have to remove all the hardware, and rebuild it in the new pot. Obviously, the the more extensive the hardware, the bigger the hassle to put it back. When they're still small, though, there won't be so much hardware yet. I started my current LST in small pots, with only one or two hooks. Then, more elaborate in mid-sized pots, and finally to the bigger pots.

On my last grow, I couldn't get the light as close to most of the buds as I would have liked, because that big-ass main cola got in the way . With an even canopy, I figured I could get the light closer. LST works like a champ for me.

This morning:
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Nice. This is One type of LST called bansai, looks like you got it down.when I bansai I drill small holes around the top of the pot and use a combination of string and twist ties and it works well. U can even bend in the opposite direction in a week or two and fill out the other side if desired and then grow a very bushy vertical plant. Topping can also be considered LST if only taking a top node and not the whole top branch of at the level of the side branches, I like to HST as well with bending all branches in the desired directions and filling in the gaps creating a wide bush like this pic, also minor defoliation to give the inner nodes light to grow into sizable new tops, combine all of these super cropping techniques and you have monster cropping

Underneath, they look like this:


But upstairs, they look like this:

Hey guys. Lst is the shit. Seriously... its never too late either...i didnt start lst till just before (and into) flowering. Im still doing it. As branches spring up, i.tie them down. Ive also got some.very interesting plants that were topped and retopped like 20 times, the resulting bushes were then tied to horizontal.strings, much like a vineyard. The string are canted at a slight northward angle to.allownlight to hit everything. Additionally, every one ofmy branches on the "normal" plants (untopped) is perfectly horizontal, causing even the innermost buds to grow consistently with the outers. Additionally the buds look.great because they are free floating, not stuck.to.the side of a stem.. Everyone.is.perfectly.round. Im.trying to upload pictures, but my stupid phone wont let me. Grrrrr.

Anyway, if your not doing at least some sort of lst, or are losing.weight.

Great thread. I am definitely going to LST on my next grow. Those huge canopies with multiple colas look so amazing.

exactly what i was looking for!! thank you!
cheers