LST in real time

[AGH]

I've done some manifolds and they're awesome! Just remember to keep training the branches to be nice and wide, especially if you have a taller strain. One of my Blue Dream runs I stopped the training too soon and those girls get really tall so I ended up having to keep my light a little dimmer than I wanted because I ran out of room to raise the height of the lights.

Below you can see how great they filled out the tent but the side shot shows how I could have kept them trained out and wide a little bit more so that they weren't so tall. Always learning!

[90Gizmo]

A couple months ago - I wasn't trying to keep it "neat" last time but then I saw Nebula and other's manifolding looking so pretty I decided to try harder this time. I picture the end result looking like the keel and ribs of a boat. The main stalk is the keel going mostly horizontal until it curves up at the end and the stalks growing at the nodes will go perpendicular to either side and then curve up like the ribs. The result should be a flat top.

[90Gizmo]

I wish you luck. I had really good yield last time. Really through I'm hoping to get new ideas from the group too.

[90Gizmo]

I won't drag on the little stuff until it get's bigger. For now I'm making tiny bends and twists on the main stalk by pulling on the fan leaves to keep everything on the proper sides. I miss stealing paperclips from work. I have a small roll of stainless steel wire that I cut up. Next size up will be kabob sticks.

[AGH]

I'll be running Northern Storm Auto at the end of this year...it'll be my first auto and I'll be copying your technique! Thanks for the 'grow along'!

[SoOrbudgal]

They are hard to work with these tiny little plants LOL i do the same with mine also. It's hard to separate the main stalk from the node growths there so friggin tiny. My 2 autos are about 1wk behind yours. I used large paper clips cause my bigger wire was thicker than the stalk till they were about a month old LOL

[90Gizmo]

Day 19 - I'm being careful with the tiny growth making sure that my j-hooks are on the bottom of the nodes so that they don't interfere with the new growth. You can see how the nodes and internodes receive direct lighting. I continue to turn the leaves so that every node will have one stalk on each side and none of the will cross. When large enough I will start to pull the secondary stalks to out from the center so that the main stalk continues to get direct light.

[90Gizmo]

Day 18 - the leaves are spread to either side but it is the secondary growth at the nodes that's interesting. Each bit of secondary growth at the nodes will turn into a stalk with a cola on top.

[90Gizmo]

Day 15 - I'm starting to train this Bourbon Berry Auto. It's my first grow of BBA but it's parent is Whiskey Zulu which I've grown twice before. The way I trained the last WZ netted me more than a dozen colas so I'm trying to do the same thing here before I forgot what I did. This picture is two weeks (15 days) since I dropped the seed in water. I begin the LST by pushing the plant over in a direction half way between the "x" of the leaf pattern.