i admire your LST skills
i'm always afraid i break the buggers when bending them over lol
can you take an above pic so i can learn some of your skills plz
thanks
Ofc, I will try to take some above pic at next update. Maybe some macros during tieing again. Hopefully some stem pics at harvest time as well.
But the way I go is simple, when the top or a sidebranch ventures too tall compared to the canopy I just try to find an anchor point in a part of the pot that is not as crowded and tie it there, so it fills that spot. The tops will be the hardest, since plants have way thicker stems than I was used to, already. So once one gets 2 or 3 nodes over the canopy, I have to act and lean it to a side or bend it over like a "C" shape, that will grow into an "S" shape once that top faces the light again. To avoid breaking them, I do this when they are drier, and not after watering. I also don't force them with the plastic ties, but bend by hand, then tie when pressure on it gets close to breaking. I even managed to break a top at last tieing (it was on a smaller plant that was still well saturated with water when others were dry already), snap left it hanging by the skin on just one side of the stem. I tied both parts of the stem (before and after the open wound) to the sugarcane stalk for suport and it seems to have survived and healed already.
A big mistake so far was that I been lazy at the first tieing session and put just a stalk on each pot, diagonally, instead of building a frame from more of them so i have more options for tieing. But plants grew and now I can tie to the underbranches that are supported by the stake , so I have more options. I should have also raised that frame from the pots a bit for air circulation and easier watering. But I never expected them to get so crowded down there. I guess I had to learn that the hard way. Pretty soon I will have to find a way to provide water, cause the canopy is getting too dense to put anything through or see what you are doing. I will also have to try to take more leaves from the underside, for air circulation.
So yeah, this will probably work, but it's not optimal. I should have planned it better and be lazy less.
Wow, I wrote a lot! It happens when you flying high on sativas....
See you soon for the update and hopefully some pics to make sense of what I said in here. Peace!