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ManiPawPatrol
ManiPawPatrolstarted grow question 2 years ago
DAY 22, Should I start LST soon? Or should I let them grow a bit more?
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Techniques. LST
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gottagrowsometime
gottagrowsometimeanswered grow question 2 years ago
Nah you should give it some time to shape a structure. But what you can do is get little bits of LST and softly tie the sticking up nodes so they are more level with the fan leafs that you can do to train your nodes out with your fan leafs until you have made a decent structure. Give it another week or 2 until the nodes at the bottom say have 5 inches and you want to tie it down say at 4inchs leaving enough room for the node to turn up. And the next set above tie down a 3 inches and so on. Now I'm not saying to use these as measurements I'm just giving you an idea of what you should do to make an kinda Xmas Tree shape or if she leans me on the bushy side clearly you'll approach it differently. Or you can get a little side ways action going and shape her to the way you get the best bud sites into the best place where they'll do well. Feel free to DM me when you get closer or just ask another Q and some1 will help u out. But the offers there. I've been very lazy with LST but I know how to do it and that. I've been focusing more on lollipopping this round but I've throw in late LST on day 40. Really you shouldn't do it that late as the nodes will be a lot harder to bend and manipulate to the shape you want.. The plant I LST late was strawberry gorilla with lollipoppimg mixed in have a look. I can see I'm going to get some killer top growth. Here she is, just to show you, you can apply LST late. So you are a little to early. Late her get to 5 nodes and you should be able to start LST lower nodes that will be longer and as the weeks go by you can start moving up to the top. Happy growing buddy. Very nice start you have given them. Good luck So with autos LST is great. But if even more important is energy management. So removing lower growth, stand alone bits of larf can be easily removed to focus that energy to make that larf into top bud quality on top. Happy growing.
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NobodysBuds
NobodysBudsanswered grow question 2 years ago
if you want maybe 4-5 tops each, sure. you gotta worry about rigidness of the stem, but in general you should wait until enough future virtical colas exist... i'm not a fan of lil axial buds with virtually no dvelopment.. i'd like to see a little branching at least start.. doesnt' ahve to be substantive, just more than a nub at a growth node. 8 plants in a 4x4? So, 4-5 tops might beright.. that'd be 32-40 tops.... so maybe a few more wouldn't hurt. how many colas you want to fit in there? work backward fro there. depends a lot on the plant you grow... if more of a lanky / non-branching type, you'll want more for sure. otherwise if it bushes out like crazy, it might be time to give those 4-5 branches apical dominance. getting it even early makes it easier to keep it even late... when you do lst, don't be afraid to temporarily bend some more advanced growth down and give some smaller growth a lions share of resources for a bit.... sometimes just bending down the bigger ones in morning is enough to break apical dominance for the day. other times you may need to phyiscally tie something down for a few days. anyway, much easier to do this when they are all just a few growth nodes long... their vascular tissue will develop at a similar rate etc... all things that domino into benefits later.
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crimsonecho
crimsonechoanswered grow question 2 years ago
oh you had a diary going you should have linked it :) i see you use a one part nutrient so use like .75ml/l for a while instead of 1ml/l then. just for a week to 10 days because you cant cut just the N. and one little pinch of epsom once. go low because you can add more but cant substract.
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crimsonecho
crimsonechoanswered grow question 2 years ago
i’d start very soon like one more node or you can start now as well. your call. and dial down your n just a tiny bit, they look very healthy except some tip curl which is usually a sign of n tox, its not there yet so just a little less n for now and maybe just a little tiny bit of epsom salts for additional magnesium. they look fine so these are really minimal corrections to make them look even better.
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