Explain LST to the old guy kids.

I have seen at least 50 newer threads wirh people talking about LST and LSTing their plants. From the pics ive seen.. This is just tieing down the plant and training it to grow at certain angles to produce nodes, also referred to as Guerilla Gardening. To take this step further is to pinch your vegging tops and to lollipop plants bottoms taking out any weak vegetation to let the energy concentrate on bigger tops.
Personally i even snap the core of some tops and let them grow back all elbowed wirh nugs beside it.

So... Define LST to me please.

Low Stress Training.

It is exactly what you said it is. Tie/Training down branches to produce more Tops.
Just new Terms
Like main lining. You might see that around the forums as well.

From what Ive seen about main-lining its just what I shoot for with my LST.
But then again, i never really read about it, just saw "main-lined" plants.

Main Lining is repeatedly topping a plant in such a way to get several symmetrical tops off of one plant. You top a plant early and get two shoots, you top those right away and get four, you top each of those and you get eight. Then you switch to flower and lollipop the lower growth. If you do all your topping at the same spot on each branch, and at the same time, you get very nice symmetrical growth, and get 8 giant colas from one plant.

https://www.rollitup.org/subcools-old-school-organics/517798-main-lining-ace-spades-tutoral-31.html

Guerilla Gardener said:

Personally i even snap the core of some tops and let them grow back all elbowed wirh nugs beside it.

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That itself sounds like super cropping.

I personaly only top once a plant.I will lollipop like crazy for bottom airflow and minimal light penatration on lower sites.
L.S.T. to me is gently bending a plant over time to expose more area to light for reduced height and light grow.I personaly only lst mothers to open up cutting sites for cloning.

Landing Ship (Tank). ~grin~ cn

You can bend your plants stalk down with a string or screen. Basically bend it horizontally. This can be achieve in a lot of different ways. get creative.

This causes the plant to send hormones called auxins out to the laterals (branches). The auxins cause the laterals to stretch out, thereby giving you a shorter, bushier plant.
Pics? ok!

thats just one plant. Never been topped. By bending it sideways using the trellis netting, it's sent the majority of its growth to the shoots, effectively turning it into a bush.


Hope this helps,
happy growing

As clown baby said, it's all about directing the auxins which determine the architecture of your plant. Really LST, Supercropping, topping, guerrilla gardening, mainlining are all just ways of changing Apical dominance, imo.

All this talk of mainlining, LST, its ALLL supercropping. you are right the technique of cracking the outer husk IS termed super croping, as LST and Mainlining are Guerilla gardening. Lollipopping is still lollipopping I guess... why confuse us.. you all have Ebonics and street slang.. leave our Marijauna lexicon alone dammit.

ya... Guerilla Gardening... mainlineing is just a fancy new lino for pinching tops... god damn dont make it harder then it appears.. Keep It Simple Stoopids.

Confused me to see all this new lingo for OLD techniques.
Thanks for clearing that up.