LST turned HST

[dash]

I was trying to do some LST on this lil girl, and it turned into HST by accident. her stem is bent at a 90 degree angle. What I am wondering is should I leave her like this and will she continue to grow? Or should I scrap the LST attemp and take the parts above the break and use the peices as clones? Here's a pic.

 

[Guest]

ive been lucky enough not to damage a plant in lst, so couldnt tell ya. one thing i learned is that if you do it when the plants need water, they are much easier to work with.

 

[dash]

that's good to know now, if I had known that earlier then I wouldn't have watered her 20 mins before I tried the lst

 

[dre86]

You supercropped her, I had an outdoor male plant where I did little experiments with and I bended the stem like you did and suddenly the plant had 6-7 tops (including the bended branch) exposed directly to the sunlight..The plant (& the tip) will make it. If you want you could support the branch a little so it doesn't snap, but normally it wont.

 

[Tunefull]

Hi m8
As Was said
The stems are deff more flexable before a watering...

Also i have never creased/bent a stem by accident,I have done so on purpose a few times(for various reasons)
One reason was on a outdoor plant i had,It was growing way to big to hide.I did not want to do a simple bend over(i like experementing)
So i creased the stem(i crushed the stem a bit with my finger/thumb first)
Then i done it again 2 weeks later(splinted both breaks up).....My reckoning was i slowed the growth down for a month...Which is what the experiment was about(for me)..
Also tried it compared to LST on a grow.
Same strain
Some i done LST on
One i topped and done a bit of HST(only on a few branchs tho)

Infact there in flower with me at mo(only by a week tho).but all the plants look good(Dont see no real loss in growth with the HST one.....
Lol next grow(got some veggin about to do there first transplant/training in a week or so)
I iwll do one Purely HST,No Ties to hold it down,Just bends/creases...Lol should be fun*smileS*


K i am rambleing now
Yours looks like a nice bend/crease(the sides dont look to of split)
It will hardly need anytime to heal up(and dont need to do anything to it)
I would make sure there is no fan blowing on it to much for a few days,Dont want to agitate it at that point(i would imagine))))

 

[dash]

ok cool, I noticed today that the original tip has already started to point back up so I am relieved I will have to see how this goes in comparison to the LST and the ones that I top and see which strains like what best. Thanks again for all Ur help.

 

[purrpullkush]

I've grown with restricted vertical space before and sometimes used stem bending especially on taller strains to keep plant tops from getting too close to lamp and haven't noticed a drop in yield, the only negative I could see from the process is that if you do it early on you may need to veg a lil longer. I've accidentally snapped stems and within 24-48 hours the apical meristem went from hanging upside down to curving 180 degrees back towards the light. If it doesn't recover within a few days, it wont recover, and it will be obvious.

 

[Guest]

rember your growing WEED it will eventually sort of fix itself and the site where bent will ballon out and actuallyb become quite strong

 

[pieceofmyheart]

Leave it alone, she will repair herself and you see a kind of "scar" there, a bump where it bent. I would never remove a broken one unless it broke all the way off.

You will be surprised at how resilient these gals are.

 

[Guest]

that is true...My pop snaps branches all the time....they always seem to repair them selves...stay safe

 

[minds_I]

Hello all,

I purposely bend my branches like that when I need to change the location of a bud.

It will be fine in two to three days and growing as if nothing happened.

minds_I