i think LST'ing takes from your juicy colas. you are essentially taking a branch, which would be a cola, and spreading it around evenly, a cola, is a mixture of little buds on a stem. by taking the stem you are essentially separating the cola. by LST'ing you take the cola and divide up the buds on the stem. the little buds that will make up the cola will grow up off the stem since the stem is now sideways or slanted down. with SOG you will get nice shaped colas. just filling you in. i have the same problem going with my Skunk. shes at 5ft, and i had to tie her up BONDAGE style!! its nasty! but i had to. all the buds that would make up a nice fat juicy cola are now going up off the branch. makes me think if i had put her into flower a few weeks earlier i could have had her stand up straight and tall. which wold have made for some nice juicy colas.