Maximizing Your Indoor Garden
Super cropping
Super cropping is the technique of bending your branches to the point of almost breaking them so that you can spread a plant out laterally and increase yields. It also helps to contain vertical growth which is especially important if your an indoor grower.
This is done by squeezing a stem or branch and gently bending it over to whatever side you want the plant to go. Within a day the plant should recover and you should see increased vigor above the affected area.
This serves 3 purposes. The plant will send increased nutrients to the affected area giving it a spike in growth. It helps keep a level canopy, stunts vertical growth and allows deeper light penetration into the plant.
Super cropping is the technique of bending your branches to the point of almost breaking them so that you can spread a plant out laterally and increase yields. It also helps to contain vertical growth which is especially important if your an indoor grower.
This is done by squeezing a stem or branch and gently bending it over to whatever side you want the plant to go. Within a day the plant should recover and you should see increased vigor above the affected area.
This serves 3 purposes. The plant will send increased nutrients to the affected area giving it a spike in growth. It helps keep a level canopy, stunts vertical growth and allows deeper light penetration into the plant.
Low Stress Training/LST
What do growers mean when they talk about “low stress training”? To anyone new, it might sound like some workout for the weekend or a new diet plan, but the experienced grower will know right away that you’re trying to maximize yield, and use as little space as you can while doing it.
Low stress training, or LST as it’s more commonly referred, is the practice of bending plants to your will in order to get the heaviest fruits possible in the least amount of square footage available. The process begins when the plant is only a few weeks old, and will continue all the way through flowering in order to give it the best chance to flourish in an area that may be less than vertically or horizontally ideal.
As each node grows it will be tied down to a portion of the pot, watering system, or surrounding wall to give it an anchor. This anchor then guides the plant on its growth path, in order to effectively use as much of the box or closet as it can, without occupying a space it would suck up if left totally without tending.
How you tie your plant down depends entirely on the environment it’s surrounded by, so check out our guide on the best ways to accommodate your grow room with the low stress training method.
What do growers mean when they talk about “low stress training”? To anyone new, it might sound like some workout for the weekend or a new diet plan, but the experienced grower will know right away that you’re trying to maximize yield, and use as little space as you can while doing it.
Low stress training, or LST as it’s more commonly referred, is the practice of bending plants to your will in order to get the heaviest fruits possible in the least amount of square footage available. The process begins when the plant is only a few weeks old, and will continue all the way through flowering in order to give it the best chance to flourish in an area that may be less than vertically or horizontally ideal.
As each node grows it will be tied down to a portion of the pot, watering system, or surrounding wall to give it an anchor. This anchor then guides the plant on its growth path, in order to effectively use as much of the box or closet as it can, without occupying a space it would suck up if left totally without tending.
How you tie your plant down depends entirely on the environment it’s surrounded by, so check out our guide on the best ways to accommodate your grow room with the low stress training method.
Topping
Topping a plant means that you remove the main shoot located on the central stem by cutting it or simply bending it over until it breaks.. By doing so you will encourage the plant to grow into a bush with a lot of shoots instead of one big main shoot increasing yields and canopy coverage.
Every time you top a section, 2 shoots/tops will grow out of that branch/stem. When those shoots develop you can top them as well and so on . You can top as many times as you like.
Topping a plant means that you remove the main shoot located on the central stem by cutting it or simply bending it over until it breaks.. By doing so you will encourage the plant to grow into a bush with a lot of shoots instead of one big main shoot increasing yields and canopy coverage.
Every time you top a section, 2 shoots/tops will grow out of that branch/stem. When those shoots develop you can top them as well and so on . You can top as many times as you like.
Scrog
Scrog or screen of green refers to suspending a screen over your plant or plants and letting the plant grow through the screen while weaving the branches in and out. By weaving the branches through the screen a grower can spread their plant out keeping an even canopy. Resulting in better yields, support for the plant and extending the plant laterally while stunting the vertical growth.
Scrog or screen of green refers to suspending a screen over your plant or plants and letting the plant grow through the screen while weaving the branches in and out. By weaving the branches through the screen a grower can spread their plant out keeping an even canopy. Resulting in better yields, support for the plant and extending the plant laterally while stunting the vertical growth.