Just hacked my plant while LSTing.

So I was about 4 days into flowering when I came across supercropping and LSTing. I read about them before but forgot about it until last night.

Well I decided to go for it and did a bit of a hack job on a couple.

Any feedback would be appreciated on what I should do. I have already switched back to 18/6, since they had not yet started to flower.

The first two (#1, #2) are from a very good bag that had 4 seeds in it, and the other 2 (NYD1, NYD2) are New York Diesels. All from seeds. The NYD's are 27 days old, and #1, #2 are 38 days old. All in Fox Farm soil/WormCasings, and getting fed Fox Farm nute schedule (on week 5).

Seed #1 Pre LST


#1 After LST


Seed #2 Pre Super Cropping


#2 After Super Cropping


#2 Top view Pre-SC


Seed #2 Top Post SC


NYD1 Pre hack job of LST.


NYD2 Post Hack job LST




The top was looking horrid so after some advice I just topped it and went back to 18/6.

NYD1 Post Topping


I put some clone gel on it and put some athletic tape over the opening to try to help seal it.

NYD1 Clone


NYD2 Pre LSTing


NYD2 Post LST

Group shot (Pre Changes)

Group shot (post changes)


There are two clones because I snapped off one of the tips on Seed #2 too.

Updated: I guess that the pics were not showing up. So I reposted it with some that hopefully do.

low stress training, keep those bends gentle and increase them over time, hope this hackjob dosnt herm any of your plants. also LST is better when done in veg, not flower, right? good luck bro

Theres the pics! Those are beautiful hanni !
yea the other cat is right that to me is HST , but i dont know much about the terms used here, when i tie mine down (LST) then i call it "tie down" but everybody has their own terms. Bending those stems like that is what you call SC ?
anyways give the broke one around a week before going back to flower. the setup looks very nice! and that clone is SUPER healthy!
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Thanks man, Yeah I for sure went too far on the stressing of them. Hopefully it works out. But how many first times ever work out great eh. But I have learned a very valuable lesson.

But I do have another question. There are two stems that are trapped under the mains fan leaves. Should I prune the leaves to let them get to the light?

You can see the two fan leaves (very obvious from top) here:


This side view shows what they are covering.





Here is my NYD1 now two days out from the hack job. It was not stretched at all before, but now that it is missing the top 1/4 of it the side branches are thin. Should being back on 18-6 help them thicken up? Or is it boned, and just need to look forward to it hopefully being female and not messing up its clone?




And lastly the clone of the NYD1 is drooping. I thought that I would leave the leafs on so that it could drain the nutes from them to help it survive, but now am not so sure. What do you all think I should do leave it or trim the fan leaves off?

Yeah here is the thread that I got the idea to supercrop the one from: https://www.rollitup.org/advanced-marijuana-cultivation/136974-super-cropping-7.html#post1869880 People where saying that it was ok, not ideal but ok to do a week into flowering, so I figured it would be safe. Little did I know the power of my ability to mess crap up.

Ya thats what i did, i trimmed the clones leafes tips, becaus for some reason, the more the leafs, the quicker it gives up. i also foliar spray my clones at least two times a day.

Edit: O. You def want to support it somehow too to get the leafs out of the dirt so they can do there thing.

cover those clones up with ...... anything clear, that way the humidity stays way up! thats the only reason it is droppin. Put some kinda dome over those and they will point back up in ONE day!