1xCC-COCO-COBs

Wow! So these two girls have really grown a lot this week , I’m pretty damn impressed with the results. I think coco and COBs make a great combo.. getting the nutrients dialed in and using some LST is making the girls short, fat and healthy green! I’ve focused on the LST training a lot this week and it’s something that needs constant maintenance for the next few weeks to keep up with all the growth. It’s a fair bit of work training the plants but it really improves the final product and yield in my opinion. So I bring to you my guide for training! Tutorial: The Easy LST Guide Items Required: Plant ties, string Garden Staple 6” So this week we are going to cover the basics of LST. For those of you that aren’t familiar with the term , it stands for Low Stress Training. It is a fantastic way to increase the yield of your plants and maintain an even canopy height. This ensures that you can maximize the potential of your chosen light source. We will also cover leaf tucking , this is an early growth booster that can be used to further enhance the benefits of LST. LST is actually quite a simple method of plant training , you can probably do it for free. Everybody has some extra string laying around somewhere, I’d assume. So the extra few minutes spent each week in your garden can add up to tens of grams more dried herbals for very little investment of time and basically zero cost. Also, who doesn’t like enjoying a bit more time in their garden? I sure do! So LST is essentially as the name implies, we are going to gently train the plant to a better suited way of growing for an indoor environment. The first week of training (I started training these plants mid week 2)will just bend the plant over, this will allow light to hit between nodes better and cause some off shoots to form. When these shoots begin forming between nodes is when you want to start thinking strategically and begin tucking leaves. The leaves blocking or shadowing new growth shoots can often be gently bent or tucked behind the newly forming growths. This will allow full light to the new shoots, which will eventually become colas, to get better light and faster growth. We want to spread out these off shoots in a different direction from each other in an attempt to maximize coverage and maintain even canopy height. Keep doing this step over and over until the plant is mid way through flower stretch. You should end up with a flat canopy and a short dense plant packed with nugs! It’s not something I can easily write in 1,2,3 steps as it’s based on each plants unique growth patterns, the best advice I can give is follow this journal - watch and learn! This is the ideal and recommended plant training technique for autos. The other plant training methods can stunt or severely reduce your yields with autos as the plants don’t have the time to recuperate like photoperiods. That’s it! Follow along with the journal and you’ll see some examples as I train these plants for some massive yields in Coco! Be sure to check in! Happy Growing! -TheWeedMan