Questions about bending

I understand trellacing your plants is beneficial for obvious reasons, but what about bending the branches for more light exposure or training the plant to grow in certain directions. Im sure someone's got some insight on this topic!!

That's why people do it, is to offer more exposure to the branches and create multiple tops. It's called low stress training. This is a beginners question and there's lots of info on it in other sections of roi.

The UK members might get a laugh out of questions about "bending"... Its called LST, and as mentioned there is lots of LST action here. I am doing a couple myself. Any hieght plant can be only a couple feet high... plus an even canopy {rather than a Christmas Tree} means even spread of available lighting.

Hey Punk, relax. No need to play forum partrol. Don't pass judgement as to the simplicity of my post just yet-it gets more complicated. I have been told by a few people that the bending sort of "strengthened" the plant. The bending causing micrscopic tears in the plant tissue and promoting stronger re-growth and stalk fortification, sort of like when your lifting weights!

chacehart said:

Hey Punk, relax. No need to play forum partrol. Don't pass judgement as to the simplicity of my post just yet-it gets more complicated. I have been told by a few people that the bending sort of "strengthened" the plant. The bending causing micrscopic tears in the plant tissue and promoting stronger re-growth and stalk fortification, sort of like when your lifting weights!

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IDK the science behind it, but yeah it strengthens your plant and allows light to penatrate deeper into the canopy reaching more bud sites, giving you bigger buds. You could also look up scrog.
Its in the advance techniques area of the forum, but scrogging isnt hard. Check it out

It sounds like you are talking about super cropping more than LST. In super Cropping, you gently crush the plants tissues in the stems to create strength and a larger delivery system for nutrients.

Little Tommy said:

It sounds like you are talking about super cropping more than LST. In super Cropping, you gently crush the plants tissues in the stems to create strength and a larger delivery system for nutrients.

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This sounds more along the lines of what I might of heard. Both sound intriguing to me, how do I utilize them effectively. Something tells me i don't go randomly bending branches back-mother nature didn't intend that.

For super cropping you just find a place on a branch that you want to grow in another direction. You grap the branch and pinch between two fingers making you feel a small snap. After this you can easily bend the branch. After about a weeks time the plant will have built a small bulky bulb where it was bend. This bulb should be able to transport even more energy than the stem without the bend.

Instead of supercropping where you actually snap the branch a bit you can just bend it without snapping. Just bend it a little and keep bending more until you're happy.

If you bend, snap, remove a grow tip all the grow tips below this will start growing faster. In this way you can form a very branchy plant before putting it into the flowering room ready to produce a lot of big colas instead of just one.

chacehart said:

This sounds more along the lines of what I might of heard. Both sound intriguing to me, how do I utilize them effectively. Something tells me i don't go randomly bending branches back-mother nature didn't intend that.

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Scrog isnt supercropping, but if you supercrop AND scrog, youll probably get an even bigger yield. Scrogging doesnt bastardize mother natures plan, all it is is training your plants to grow sideways so that you can maximize light to the lower bbranch bud sites.

This is awesome, thanks for the patient feed back everyone!

We're bending our plants to keep them on the DL since we live in a city. They look healthy enough, unless something goes terribly wrong (please God no!!) I think we'll be able to call it a success come harvest time. We've learned some neat tricks in just the month we've been on here. Will we be knee deep in bud? No, but the colas look happy. I'm just proud 'cos I thought of it

i LST every plant in my garden on the regular & it really does work.

i drill small holes around the top edge of the planter (soil) & utilize pipe cleaners to pull the plant down & pull it apart & pull it this way & pull it that way.

every couple of days shorten the distance from where you tied to the plant & the anchor point.

if i have to make a long connection, i twist several pipe cleaners together by the ends.

in my dwc set up, i attach 3M hooks around the bucket & then use pipe cleaners to do the bondage.

when you pull the main top(s) down far enough over time, that will stimulate vigerous growth ofthe secondary branches ... & they will compete (so to speak) to become the new main top.

and, if you pull too hard, tie down too far, or basically make a visual tear in the plant tissue... paint the torn spot with clonex (on a brush, drip it in the cut with a clean nail, whatever) and wrap a pipe cleaner around the effected area to hold it together... & in a couple of days, viola, good to go.

be fly. stay high.