First Time Grow Please Let me Know If I'm LSTing this plant right or if it wrong

jgrowth

Member
first time doing this and was very worried after place were i bent has turned sorta yellow but plant still looks very alive after 6 hours in light after starting stress training im just worried so some one please let me know what you think =) many thanks :joint::joint::joint::joint::weed::weed::weed::weed:DSCN0645.jpgDSCN0644.jpgDSCN0647.jpgDSCN0642.jpgDSCN0648.jpgDSCN0643.jpgDSCN0650.jpgDSCN0646.jpgDSCN0649.jpg:joint::joint::joint::joint:
 
u will be ok mush they love bein snaped and bent what will happen is is u will get a big nuckel around the bend they be sound
 

killeroxx

Active Member
Bending them like such is HST "High Stress Training" but yes u seem to be doing it just fine just care for your bent parts and make sure they heal properly..by which they should look normal stem color/fuzzy and such...ull knw if somethings wrong ;)
 

Green Giant84

Active Member
WRONG!!! The name of the game is 2 bent your plant over by tying it down 2 something. Your's looks like u litterly bend the main stem to a point where u broke it. From how it looks, it looks like u started LST a lil late to where your main stem go to hard to where it won't bend, should've started it while your plant was still bendable and younger.

But you'll still get a lot of good branch growth that should turn to some main tops.

Bend It Dont Break It!!!!!
 

jgrowth

Member
im very interested in the HST Killer i thank you all for the reply's very helpful and makes me feel a lil more safe knowing my plat still should grow just fine it does look pretty healthy for first time grow right??? and i wasn't sure if i broke it or not i don't think so i is just bent to one side is not really cracked open i made a crack sound once and that's it other then that i tried to be real gentle i was wondering if it was to late to do it maybe i should have gone higher up on the plant ????? but i hope it grows and gets a nice yield thanks again guys and if you have any more tips on HST killer plz let me know man and what to look for to know if things are going bad it smells really fruity best bud i have ever smelt in my life i really hope it works my ma who has cancer and my step dad who has had strokes could really use it thank you again i know i said it alot but i really thought i might have killed it but just going to check again now seems to be still alive and kicking so far
 

nickhdsn

Well-Known Member
just let it go and it kinda looks like supercropping so look into that because you didnt really bend down over like 2-3 day period (if needed) so it can get use to being bent
 
Yup those look super-cropped, which is basically bending all the growths at the same height, evening the canopy and light distribution. It is actually high stress since you have to hurt the plant but as long as you didnt break it all the way through, it should be fine. As far as i understand it, you are breaking the outside of the stem which will heal. If you break through the middle part, nutrients cannot flow to the rest of the branch, obviously. Wish I was more technical with scientific names but I think thats the general principle. LST, or Low Stress Training, is where the plant is tied down but not broken.

TLDR your plant looks fine but its not LST
 

Dj1209

Well-Known Member
Lol the hst isn't real that means it is bad in low stress training the point is to inflict as little stress on the plant as possible by slowly bending the shoots by tying them down. What you did ie more like super cropping which in my opinion stresses the plant, next time tie the shoots down while its young. My plant was lst'd check out my grow journal.
 

jgrowth

Member
to tell you the truth man not sure i planted a bunch of diff kinds i think i have 1 or 2 purp plants and then the one you see above i think is a kush or Hulk or maybe even chronic i know i planted chronic in this batch so this could be the chronic but i think it is Hulk because of the hairs they look like the hulk bud i had all feminized only reason i even know the strains is because i got da seeds from the same place i got my Bud if it weren't for that i wouldn't even no lol but for first time grow seems to be going good that plant is only and month and a couple weeks old so its doing good i think and just looked at it and its allready growing upward the the top that was strait is now curved and the plant is deff getting the sun it likes =D thank you again killer and nick and bob dude deff is a supercropping and it is working so ima happy stoner lol
 

jgrowth

Member
and as for yield i should get 3'Os or more because it will be a year around grow i wont harvest till prob start of winter not sure depends on if it starts budding or not really im just letting nature do its business and i water once a day i use about a 3rd of a gallon on 7plants i started my LST on my younger ones and they are taking to it very nicely thank you guys for the lst tips as well 1 out of 7 is a male and the seed i planted to get that male was just a tester so im not really disappointed i just wanted to learn how to get it started before i planted my good seeds witch are doing good so im glad i did it that way
 
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