Bending?

I have been told of a technique where you bend the top of the plant down to expose more of the plant to the light. Does this work? What kind of results does this achieve? And if I were to do this, what stage of the growth is best to do it?

Lst look it up

just prune it

I tried but I cant find much info. Would it be known by a different name? Or is bending the technical term lol

it`s called Lst. do it in veg preferably. it gives more light to the side branches to make bigger nugs. mostly done on topped plants because they get to bushy if not

GROWFAQ here is a link to the faq

Heres a one I tied down today,it should start to get bushy now

Heres another LST pic,this one was topped and tied down

I love tying my plants seeing i have a limited vertical space... I would in no way use it to get more light to the plant...

It is more to spread the canopy over a horizontal space and keep the plant lower...

Depending on the strain you might end up with multiple "main" colas similar to toping but with less initial stress...

the whole point of lst is to get more light to the lower branches. if hieght is an issue for ya flower sooner mabee. it dosen`t matter what the person does it for it was meant to allow more light to the lower and side branches.

I let my clones grow to about a foot and then tied them pretty much sideways. Not limited in space just trying a little experiment.

whatch the heat i see abit of it on the tall one

heres a good totorial; How-To : LST (Low Stress Training) - Grasscity.com Forums

bonz said:

whatch the heat i see abit of it on the tall one

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I'm already doing all I can to keep the heat down in the room. With not being able to exhaust the heat outdoors or even far away from the room I'm kinda limited right now on what i can do. I would like to go with inline fans that move more cfm but money is an issue right now. The heat doesn't seem to be killing them just a little heat stress on the leaves so far. We're also getting some of the hottest days around here right now which doesn't help. I have 2 - 50 cfm bathroom exhaust fans pulling off the top of the 1000w light and i have 1 60 cfm fan bringing fresh air in. The room is about 4x4x8' so it's about 128 cu. ft but I am able to bring the cardboard pretty much right around my setup to close in the room even more. The light is also only about 4' high right now so it makes that 128 cu. ft. probably less than half of that. maybe 3x4x4' so that's 48 cu. ft. that I have to worry about light getting to. I just changed to the 1000w also from a 400w and even with the bigger light my room has only gone up about 2 degrees celcius. So I figured I'd leave it.

your air venting is way off.
dosn`t matter were the light is you need to vent the whole room.your room needs to be a seeled room, without that you dont get proper negative pressure to vent the rooms and the fans arte kind of useless. bathroom fans cfm rating are not accurate. i feel they blow more than suck and thats not how you measurer cfm, fine for a small flouro grow but definately not a 1000.

do you have any pic`s, you realy should fix that up. if your walls are cardboard and you can move them how do you seal it and contain smells. it dosn`t need to vent outdoors or even far away, i have built cagbinets where my fan and filter were right on top of cab. intake and exhaust away from each other thats all

I'm not worried about smells, I also think my air venting is FFN hahah. But any suggestions are more than welcome. I do have pics or wait... I will go take some right now.

So this should show the two bath fans on each side wall which pull through ports in the top of the reflector right on each side of the bulb. They exhaust that air outside of the room to the room beside it. It actually blows the air onto the transformer to hopefully cool it down (no pic sorry). The shade goes to each side of the cardboard making it like a little hut in there. On the warm days I will leave the door open and open up the cardboard a little to try and keep it cooler. All I can do until it gets cooler outside.

There's also some pics of the bending I tried on my clone I'm keeping for a mother. That one is 420 and the other ones are blueberry.

your blowing hot air from the lights on the transformer to cool it down??? not good.

those fans hardley help a cfl grow never mind a 1000 watt. does that actualy have a door on the room

by the time the air has exhausted to the transformer there is not much heat left... more like it moves the air around in that little metal box. Yes the room has a door which is closed *almost completely* except for where the cord for the light goes into the room.

Also how can you say that they hardly help a cfl grow? They seem to be doing fine in my situation with circulation and keeping the air in the room fresh. Even if the two ex. fans aren't pulling 50 cfm.... say they pull 25 cfm. And the 60 cfm intake... well maybe it does 30 cfm. so lets just say... now i'm exhausting 50 cfm and pulling in 30 cfm. I know these numbers should be the same... i work with what I got or can get my hands on. This still should exchange the air completely every... hmmm... 4x4=16x8=128cu.ft. with 50 ft a min ex so approx. 3 mins to completely exhaust. Also bringing in the 30 cfm from a diff space should fill the room every 4 mins approx.

I did take a look at one thread that had a link to some cheap inline fans that seem like a good idea. So ideally yes I would like to go with bigger stuff, it just doesn't work for me at the moment. I would like to be able to pull from a seperate space do all my exhausting outide as well which isn't the case. I do pull my air in from a diff. space but my air only exhausts to the room beside it which doesn't really help the heat prob.

wow you think i`m slamin you? i`m not , just trying to help out. get the stuff if you want and when you want. cfl`s actualy get hot in a small set up like they were kind of designed for.
you cany even begin to calculate your cfm or anyhting about it till the room is sealed or the math dosn`t jive.
just thought by telling you this info now it gave ya time to read about it and make a good choice on dialing the room in. sorry if i seemed pushy