Hi Grow Community! I am trying LST for the first t...

Hi buddy ive been training plants for years like most growers and like my fellow growers have said LST or training is a very long game and it requires a lot of patients though you can achieve some very impressive results if you are patient enough check out my current galetog from seeds man I have trained that plant for 11 weeks and almost manged to fill a 4ft x 4ft tent with one plant. I have never used any HST methods in that grow as I find it can cause a little too much stress and slow a plants growth down. I start training at maybe week number 4 or 5 of veg I don't bend branches or gently snap them I use a 2inch net and I simply guide the new side branching out wards keep doing that everyday and you will eventually create and even canopy with little to no stress :) LST= Patience instead of bending the branch try and manipulate it with plastic ties like you are doing I use this method combined with grow stakes to support the ties then when I have the plant growing the way I want I remove the stakes :) best of luck buddy your doing really well.