LST ring was introduced on 6/8/20 and actually helped a lot as some of the lower branches were starting to get to strong for my yard staples to keep a grip in the soil. I made sure to get the longer pieces to the outer side of the ring because that causes it to grow at least a little more horizontal. Plant was given an inoculation tea on 6/9/20 consisting on 2 cups great lakes worm castings and 2 tbsp unsulfured molasses in 5 gallons of water brewed for 24 hours with air stones and ph'd to 6.4. The 5 gallons was shared among 8 plants only 3 of which are thriving so the outdoor ones did not get as much. I would say she was given about 1 gallon of tea to herself with about 30% runoff. Runoff was around 6.0. Seems there was not a lot of activity with this girl during week 5. Tea promoted some great growth even within 24 hours.