So When Should Training Be Considered? | |
First of all, i'm getting this out of the way. It matters not if the plant was from seed, or is a clone.
This is more of a "feel" than an exact science.
I'm tired of useless time frames that simply don’t apply to everybody. I’ve seen some people take months to do the same thing others take weeks to do. Literally.
So we will do this instead; we will use characteristics.
You need the plant to have developed a decent root structure (we don’t want to be pulling the sucker out the soil now do we?).
Now, it’s obviously hard to know what the root structure looks like (as we cant see it), but we can take an educated guess.
You want there to be a certain amount of plant to actually be there to tie down. I used to think that "stretch" was the end of the world, but now I think otherwise. The amount of stem stretch has nothing to do with the future denseness of the bud.
In this picture here, we see a plant that’s definitely NOT ready; better give it some more time. |