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Cozy Amnesia
fvk, thats something I need to figure out too before I start flowering, but I think you'd be safe either way, whether you left them tied up for the whole flowering or if you untied them. I think that if you untied them too soon the branches would "untrain" and bend back upwords. But like I said, I don't know for sure so do some research first.
I know you've seen the picture quazi, but I'd like to think it's a great example:
Can you tell which are the colas (there are two plants, other than the seedlings)? I can't. Thats because all shoot apical meristems (side branches) are just as big as the dominant apical meristem by continually training (like quazi pointed out, you gotta keep on training to get it that bushy). Let's see what I can remember from botany class...
Apical dominance is just as it sounds: one apical meristem towers above the rest and prevents/inhibits the growth of other branches. In most all plants the tip of the main trunk bears dominance over the whole plant and same is the case with cannabis.
If the dominant meristem is cut off, one or more branch tips will assume dominance. If, instead of removing the dominant meristem, we simply pull it down so that the top cola is no longer dominating over the rest, then several side branches will move in to take it's place. Why? Auxins.
It's a fairly simple concept, but a better understanding of LST than "the plant thinks it's injured," and another way to look at how LST works. Both auxins and apical dominance are the reasons why LST does what it does.
I know you've seen the picture quazi, but I'd like to think it's a great example:
Can you tell which are the colas (there are two plants, other than the seedlings)? I can't. Thats because all shoot apical meristems (side branches) are just as big as the dominant apical meristem by continually training (like quazi pointed out, you gotta keep on training to get it that bushy). Let's see what I can remember from botany class...
Apical dominance is just as it sounds: one apical meristem towers above the rest and prevents/inhibits the growth of other branches. In most all plants the tip of the main trunk bears dominance over the whole plant and same is the case with cannabis.
If the dominant meristem is cut off, one or more branch tips will assume dominance. If, instead of removing the dominant meristem, we simply pull it down so that the top cola is no longer dominating over the rest, then several side branches will move in to take it's place. Why? Auxins.
It's a fairly simple concept, but a better understanding of LST than "the plant thinks it's injured," and another way to look at how LST works. Both auxins and apical dominance are the reasons why LST does what it does.
