LST tips

I have a 17 day old chocolate skunk auto flower growing in fox farm ocean forest can anyone help me with LST I wanna make sure I’m doing it right, this is only my 2nd grow and first time doing lst,

Turn off light for pics. Only thing i would of done is put another support at the base to help keep the main stalk base upright vs pull the whole thing over

Red is where i would of put one green is the effect it would have on main stalk but thats me not saying right or wrong

bam0813 said:

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Red is where i would of put one green is the effect it would have on main stalk but thats me not saying right or wrong

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Added a tie to the base of the main stem,

Topping would be better

budman111 said:

Topping would be better

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I thought topping was bad to do on a auto flower?

Dino2434 said:

I thought topping was bad to do on a auto flower?

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Search these forums, I'm half certain there was a guy who use to top early on and was getting quite good results for autos. Lst is normally better to do after topping once, because it leaves some room between the stem and soil, creates a better structure to lst with, and is much better for airflow later on. If you really want to get into that kind of thing though, it is much easier to use normal feminised seeds.

Dino2434 said:

I thought topping was bad to do on a auto flower?

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Bro Science has gotten to the point that people believe and treat Autos like a completely different plant. It's still Cannabis sativa, indica with added ruderalis genes. I personally prefer pinching, twisting and supercropping instead of topping.

I've never treated autos any different than photos. It's fine to transplant, just don't do the mistake and touch, break and disturb the roots.

I only really top when I take cuttings from a mom. I think it's way to early for LST.

I thought we covered this.

Keep topping until week 3 then look for hairs. Thats when you want to transplant it and leave it on 24 hour light. It will reveg and you can trigger flower when you want after that... I'm going to try it next batch of autos. But I top it and it does fine. Lst too...

Dino2434 said:

I have a 17 day old chocolate skunk auto flower growing in fox farm ocean forest can anyone help me with LST I wanna make sure I’m doing it right, this is only my 2nd grow and first time doing lst, View attachment 4970760

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So, this my third grow, but first time with Autos, instead of bending branches I’ve decided to just tilt my plants entirely in their in 3gal. bags. I tilt them about 45deg. So that the sun gets directly into plant. I will reverse sides of plant getting this attention throughout the day. Seems simple, no stress at all and plenty of light on inner bud points.