Plant training: Difference between revisions

Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
Paper clips can be used to pin the stem down as it grows. This greatly reduces the height of the plant by training branches to grow laterally. This method is better suited to more compact mediums like soil as pins require some friction to stay in place. Pinning should start as soon as there is a long enough stem to pin. You can grow a seedling in low light to increase the stem stretching in the seedling phase. This can increase the inter-nodal distance giving your branches more space later on in flowering.
 
[[Image:LST-pinning-down.png|200px|center]]
[[Image:LST-pinning-down.png|200px|caption]] Here the plant is kept low to the soil with blue paper clips. See how the clips can be used to twist the stem as it grows so that all nodes can emerge parallel to the soil
 
=== Ponytailing ===