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here: Issue #275 - Sunday, July 23, 2017 Dear Fellow Grower,
In today's issue... - Learn how to use Low Stress Training to increase your yields for free!
- Get the tools you need to start LST'ing today!
- Learn about the 8 most common reasons for dry, crispy leaves!
- This plants in this weeks trophy pics are quite large and they haven't even started flowering yet. These are going to
be Godzilla-sized!
Nebula Haze & Sirius Fourside (founders of GrowWeedEasy.com) "The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit."
~Morihei Ueshiba
How to Use LST to Increase Yields!
by Nebula Haze
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Introduction to Low Stress Training (LST)
Low Stress Training or LST is like bonsai for cannabis plants. It’s the practice of gently bending stems and tying them in place to drastically change the shape of the plant. This is done to create multiple bud sites, even out the canopy, and overall help you use light more efficiently. Using LST can increase marijuana yields without changing your setup, and it's also surprisingly fun!
Example: All this bud is growing on a single 18" tall weed plant in someone's homemade grow box. LST forced the plant to stay short and grow multiple colas. Low stress training can be used to grow marijuana plants in any size or shape. This grower trained his outdoor cannabis plants to grow flat like hedges by training stems to grow
along a ScrOG net. How to Use
LST to Your Advantage
What is "Low Stress Training" and how does it increase yields for cannabis growers?
Low stress training is used to form a
relatively flat, even canopy. This exposes many bud sites to direct light instead of just the top main bud. As a result, trained marijuana plants naturally create more (and bigger) buds in the same environment or setup than untrained plants.
Two Papaya plants were LST'ed to produce many fat, thick colas! Benefits of Low Stress Training
- Bigger yields from the exact same grow lights
and setup
- Complete control over height, shape and size of plant (helpful both indoors and outdoors!)
- Plants produce many big buds instead of just a single main bud and a lot of tiny ones
This marijuana plant is only a foot tall yet is engulfed in fat buds. Now take a look at the "guts" of this plant to see how this shape was achieved with LST. It was trained to grow in a spiral! The main stem was first bent down and away from the center of the plant, towards the side. After that, the grower continued to bend the main stem in a circle around the plant. As
a result, several lower growth tips rose up to become colas with fat chunky buds, giving much bigger yields than if there was just one main cola.
LST allows a better distribution of light since all parts of the plant (and therefore all the potential bud sites) are located the proper distance from your grow lights.
When it comes to indoor growing, bud sites at the proper distance from your grow light (in the "Sweet Spot") produce the biggest buds.
As you can see, the light intensity drops off fast as you get further away from the lights! You need training to get more buds in that sweet spot.
Why settle with just one big cola when you could have many huge colas?
Tools for Low Stress Training
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Although you can get creative and DIY everything you need at home for LST'ing, there are some inexpensive tools specifically made for plant training, and they can make things easier on you!
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Why Are My Leaves Dry and Crispy? |
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There are many reasons that the leaves of your marijuana plant can get dry or crispy. Sometimes crispy leaves can be normal, but most of the time, this means that something is wrong with your cannabis
plant.
If you're seeing symptoms spreading through your marijuana plant, you need to react quickly! For example, these crispy, dry leaves with yellowing, curling and spots are caused by a mixture of heat and light stress. Simply moving the grow light further away would have helped keep the dry
leaves from spreading! Don't wait!
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G/day Nebula, Once Again you have shown me what was wrong, that i didn't know was wrong, (root rot), I gleefully look forward to your weekly newsletter it carries so much useful
knowledge.
I had that problem a while back, but did not pick root rot, but after reading the article and looking at the "preety" pictures, that was what it was.
Thank you, these newsletters and your site are greatly appreciated for the info and the ease at which it can be obtained.
Best ever regards
Shane |
Trophy Pictures of the Week! |
"It was extremely hot today so the girls are screaming for some more water right now. They have been cropped but continue to grow and frankly is starting to get a little freaky. They haven't flowered yet and its been about 10-11weeks. I grew last year for the first time and didn't keep a log."
Joeyz
Wow, freaky is right! I'd be careful about walking near that thing...you might get eaten!
Make sure that the plants are getting complete darkness at night (could
it be getting light at night from that window?) in order to make sure they start flowering normally. Amazing plants!
~Nebula |
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Nebula Haze:
I'll be honest with you, when I first started growing, I struggled. Now, it is my mission to
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"Growing cannabis can be a relaxing hobby in and of itself, but it also saves you money and keeps you from having to deal with shady characters. Cannabis is much easier to grow than people give it credit for, and growing in water
doesn't increase the difficulty much, if any. But whether you want to grow in water, coco, or a different medium, we'll show you how easy it can be!"
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