ads420

hey everyone,
Im looking for some advice...
I was wondering which of the training methods would be best suited for my situation. or which of these possibly combined as well, would work best for me and my grow. Ive been looking alot into all of these methods and cant settle on which one i should use or which ones can/should be combined.
any help please??

here are some specs on my grow space.
26"L x 24"D x 63"H
400 watt MH and HPS
DWC setup.

and a pic so you can have an idea of what i am working with

i need help soon because ill be going to get my clones very soon.



thats alot everyone.

scrub

Hi, ads420. I think that your situation is as follows:

• Clones = female
• Method = hydroponic, two position plastic tote
• Space = Cabinet. Roughly 2 by 3 by 5 feet grow space. I'm guessing.

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• Experience =
• Light source =
• Strain =
• Strain projected dimensions: Height and Width =

Both ScrOG and LST are great. I am less enthusiastic about Super Cropping and Topping.

Check Grow Journals where the gardener has a grow Environment or Situation similar to yours.

I hope this helps get the ball rolling for you.

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kushbush13

i've looked into it quite a bit and I think LST is the way to go.

super inexpensive

doesn't make your plants look BA and symmetrical but it works wonders in allowing light to reach evenly throughout the plant

gl bud i'm lookin forward to seein' your journal!

-Kush

edit: and as far as topping goes I wouldn't top them more than once. dueces

CamperDon

Good afternoon,

First off Welcome to the Garden
IMO
1. scrog and LST are one in the same except LST doesn't use a screen.
2. Topping I usually do to create (through cloning) a new mother plant
3. FIM is an acronim for something I never thought I missed, more like I purposely did it -

"This involves taking a very sharp knife and cutting off the top new growth, while leaving the two nodes below it. This results in the branch having two tops instead of one. If you leave the bottom 30% instead of taking the entire new top off, it will grow multiple new tops instead of just two. This method is called FIMing."

"These methods make for bushier plants making more, smaller colas instead of one dominant one. Another popular method to increase the bushiness and yield of a plant is supercropping, which involves bending down the top foot of the branches of a plant to an angle parallel with the ground. The plant will recover from the bending, and the branch will grow out at a right angle, exposing more nodes to light."
both these quoted paragraphs were taken from: http://ripatients.org/cms/uploads/Fi...wGuideFull.pdf

Each of them would prob work in your enviroment except mabe supercropping which is better in a larger room or outdoors I think because of the horizontal growth but, I grow in a one room op and flower in a smaller cab and LST my way to harvests.
I hope this helps you a little and gets you started soon

Good luck
don

ads420

thanks for all the advice!!
i think im gonna go with LST and probably top the plants once in order to create 2-4 Cola's . we will see though. this grow will begin on tuesday!

Sso

you can easily make multiple tops with lst, without topping.

id personally lst, till id filled the space with tops, then 12/12.

ads420

Sso, thats exactly what i think im going to do. get a nice even canopy with tops then switch to 12/12 and let them shoot up!

ads420

check out my grow journal guys. finally got it started.

1st Grow DWC 400watt growbox LST - Marijuana Growing

StickyScissors

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UpNorth

For newbs I've gotta recommend topping as it is too easy to mess up. After you get a couple grows topping, add in some LST. Then you'll be comfortable, and knowledgeable enough to LST the best for your plants

I'm LST'ing right now and finding that it takes much longer than topping to achieve similar results.

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