Ok thanks for the comment. Also will it be ok if i leave em tied until the following day when i get home? Should be about 22 hours.
No, if you do that your plant is just gonna go to growing upwards again, Plants are very strong, I've lsted the actual top below one of the nodes below and when i anchored the plant it was flat, 2 days later 2 nodes from the top became the new top and actually made my stem bend from stretching for the light. Im very high so not sure if that made any sense, Sorry.
The whole point is that you're trying to redirect hormones. If you confuse it by tying and untying, the LST will never take.
Slap whoever told you that. The point of LST is to train the plants to permanently stay however your positioning them.
You've never heard of it because it would be a huge pain in the rear. Leave em tied down dude.
Keep em tied down basically for their entire life..
Exactly. There is no need to ever untie them.
But if im growing outdoors and i dont care about how tall it gets is there any benefit to lst?
LST allows the sun to penetrate down to the undergrowth. You get a better yield at the end.
To control height and promote even growth.
Well i have 11 blue dream plants growing and 4 other strands growing. As far as the blue dream they were all planted in the same size holes at the same time and they were all very close to the same size. I only tied down 5 and left the 6 others standing up. I havent done anything to them except feed and water them. So ill go ahead and see i notice a difference in the lst plants from the ones i left standing up.