Vlad The Implanter
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Real World LST.
There are many threads explaining Lst on this forum, some are pretty hard to follow some are pretty easy. But the majority of them skip a bunch of real world scenarios which is why I am writing this for you folks.
I am assuming you already know what low stress training aka LST aka Training aka bending your freakin plant is. If not there are many threads explaining it. Look it up then come back.... (Elevator Music) .....
Ok Now that you are back there are a couple things you need
1. some sort of bendable wire like a coat hanger (I use a roll of 14g galvanized wire cause it is cheap and you can make a ton of hooks) If you have no wire I have seen zip ,string or anything that wraps around a stem. Get creative Use your old iPod head phones. Those things always are shit. Put them to use.
Other things you need are string, something to bend the wire if you have it like pliers or your teeth which is not recommended. You may also need duct tape just for the hell of it and of course a plant to bend.
Ok so in this thread I am using galvanized wire. ..Drive to your local mart and search for the wire after you stop by the little Debbie snack cakes to pick up a few boxes of fun foods. Get to the hardware DIY section and stare at the wire for a good 5 min before picking it up. Get half way to the check out and you remember you left your cash at home.... Yet you have your credit card. Stress about using your credit card for a few minutes because you think the cashier KNOWS it's going to be used for LST. Drop everything run home get cash.. Go back pick up your snack cakes.
Get home open snack cakes and you remember you did not buy the wire.
Go back buy wire.
Get to youre grow space and open it up ..You stare at your plants for a good ten minutes and maybe caress a leaf or two.
You remember the wire is all the way across the house. Get wire go back stare at plants again.
Grab wire and fight with the zip ties till they break and the wire unspools in to a huge pile. Think to yourself that sucks. Cut off big section of wire and kick pile across the room yet it hooks to your sock. You take a good 5 minutes getting it off your sock.
Stare at plants again. You look down and cannot find the chunk of wire you cut off yet you know it was right in front of you a couple seconds ago. You look and look yet do not move anything of course till you get desperate and finally find the wire exactly where you left it. Right in front of you.
Grab a section and go to cut off a good two inches.. Go find pliers to cut and bend... Now that you found the freakin pliers you go back to cut your first hook. Look for the stupid piece of wire again.
OK you got the wire and the cutting/bending pliers. ...Stare at plants.. So you cut two inches finally and you want to bend it in to an s shape. You find out that the wire is sharp and slice your thumb open. Suck on thumb till it stops bleeding ..You stop bleeding but now do not have good use if your thumb because every time you try to use it you start to bleeding again. Go find bandaid. The only band aid you can find is a My little pony band aid next to an oily rag. You wonder where it came from for a couple minutes. You grab the oily rag and rip a piece off to wrap your thumb up cause there is no way in hell some stupid pony is going to be parading around your finger.
Get back to your plants and smell them.. Smile. And chat with them a bit. Take string put knot in one end. Put knot in on curve of the S hook you made and take your pliers and crimp the string on to the hook. You pull on it with all your might because for some reason you think you are going to pull a truck with it.
Find a good high spot on your plant that you want to attach the other non-crimped end to your plant. You look and look and look then log on to here and read about every part of the plant and post a bunch of threads about where exactly you place the hook. Go get little Debbie snack and go stare at plants.. Offer plant little Debbie snack then in cute voice say No No No You cannot have these. You get gooooood Nutes.
Finally wrap the s hook around plant carefully lower down till you attach it to ..... Go back to forum and see what to attach it too.
Drill holes into of bucket or use the lip of the pot to attach S hook too. Hook it with one end of s again and feed the string through the other curve or the s that you made in to an eyelet and slowly tighten string till you get desired bend and crimp eyelet...Repeat this with bigger stems if you want.
Notice you cut off all access to your hydro bucket if thats your grow method, Cut all strings and place in good location again till you have secured your plant and can remove the lid still. ...Stare at plant....stare at bend.... smell plant..... Smell bend... see one small yellow something on one little leaf ... go to forum make ten threads... Go back.. Look for yellow spot.. Not there anymore because really you just looked at the light and you had one of those stupid floating spots in your eye.. Close up grow space and go eat.
There are many threads explaining Lst on this forum, some are pretty hard to follow some are pretty easy. But the majority of them skip a bunch of real world scenarios which is why I am writing this for you folks.
I am assuming you already know what low stress training aka LST aka Training aka bending your freakin plant is. If not there are many threads explaining it. Look it up then come back.... (Elevator Music) .....
Ok Now that you are back there are a couple things you need
1. some sort of bendable wire like a coat hanger (I use a roll of 14g galvanized wire cause it is cheap and you can make a ton of hooks) If you have no wire I have seen zip ,string or anything that wraps around a stem. Get creative Use your old iPod head phones. Those things always are shit. Put them to use.
Other things you need are string, something to bend the wire if you have it like pliers or your teeth which is not recommended. You may also need duct tape just for the hell of it and of course a plant to bend.
Ok so in this thread I am using galvanized wire. ..Drive to your local mart and search for the wire after you stop by the little Debbie snack cakes to pick up a few boxes of fun foods. Get to the hardware DIY section and stare at the wire for a good 5 min before picking it up. Get half way to the check out and you remember you left your cash at home.... Yet you have your credit card. Stress about using your credit card for a few minutes because you think the cashier KNOWS it's going to be used for LST. Drop everything run home get cash.. Go back pick up your snack cakes.
Get home open snack cakes and you remember you did not buy the wire.
Go back buy wire.
Get to youre grow space and open it up ..You stare at your plants for a good ten minutes and maybe caress a leaf or two.
You remember the wire is all the way across the house. Get wire go back stare at plants again.
Grab wire and fight with the zip ties till they break and the wire unspools in to a huge pile. Think to yourself that sucks. Cut off big section of wire and kick pile across the room yet it hooks to your sock. You take a good 5 minutes getting it off your sock.
Stare at plants again. You look down and cannot find the chunk of wire you cut off yet you know it was right in front of you a couple seconds ago. You look and look yet do not move anything of course till you get desperate and finally find the wire exactly where you left it. Right in front of you.
Grab a section and go to cut off a good two inches.. Go find pliers to cut and bend... Now that you found the freakin pliers you go back to cut your first hook. Look for the stupid piece of wire again.
OK you got the wire and the cutting/bending pliers. ...Stare at plants.. So you cut two inches finally and you want to bend it in to an s shape. You find out that the wire is sharp and slice your thumb open. Suck on thumb till it stops bleeding ..You stop bleeding but now do not have good use if your thumb because every time you try to use it you start to bleeding again. Go find bandaid. The only band aid you can find is a My little pony band aid next to an oily rag. You wonder where it came from for a couple minutes. You grab the oily rag and rip a piece off to wrap your thumb up cause there is no way in hell some stupid pony is going to be parading around your finger.
Get back to your plants and smell them.. Smile. And chat with them a bit. Take string put knot in one end. Put knot in on curve of the S hook you made and take your pliers and crimp the string on to the hook. You pull on it with all your might because for some reason you think you are going to pull a truck with it.
Find a good high spot on your plant that you want to attach the other non-crimped end to your plant. You look and look and look then log on to here and read about every part of the plant and post a bunch of threads about where exactly you place the hook. Go get little Debbie snack and go stare at plants.. Offer plant little Debbie snack then in cute voice say No No No You cannot have these. You get gooooood Nutes.
Finally wrap the s hook around plant carefully lower down till you attach it to ..... Go back to forum and see what to attach it too.
Drill holes into of bucket or use the lip of the pot to attach S hook too. Hook it with one end of s again and feed the string through the other curve or the s that you made in to an eyelet and slowly tighten string till you get desired bend and crimp eyelet...Repeat this with bigger stems if you want.
Notice you cut off all access to your hydro bucket if thats your grow method, Cut all strings and place in good location again till you have secured your plant and can remove the lid still. ...Stare at plant....stare at bend.... smell plant..... Smell bend... see one small yellow something on one little leaf ... go to forum make ten threads... Go back.. Look for yellow spot.. Not there anymore because really you just looked at the light and you had one of those stupid floating spots in your eye.. Close up grow space and go eat.
