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Hey guys if you wanna check out a great grower click on that link.. he grows some beautiful plants in his cabs. Happy to see you guys are up and running again man!
Hey does that mean Toasted is one of the cool kids?! .
Hey Toasty, great to see your girls. So ponytailing prevents vertical growth? Do you do just the flowers? Cause your plants are gorgeous and short, the way I need to do it. 
Toast is one of the cool kids on the block, yup! Thanks for the kind words brother, were not even out of paper towel yet lol
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I think its just to help bottom growth.. i havent tried it yet. Look up ponytailing weed on google and click on the first link.. should be a quick vid by growpotcheaply on ponytailing. He will guide you along better then i can. My plants are nice and short from my training.. let me know if you want me to explain my method. It works well until they go buckwild during the stretch lol.Hey Toasty, great to see your girls. So ponytailing prevents vertical growth? Do you do just the flowers? Cause your plants are gorgeous and short, the way I need to do it.
Yes they say no more then 9 hours of it from a you tube video . Idk
But yes it opens up light to lower fans and bud branches for them to grow better..
They can get rowdy when they hit puberty.
YES PLEASE Toasty, I would love to learn. Class is in session everyone, pull up some chairs and tokes. PW, let all the prepubescent plants in, if we must...lol.
Hey Toasty, great to see your girls. So ponytailing prevents vertical growth? Do you do just the flowers? Cause your plants are gorgeous and short, the way I need to do it.
PT is good technique to push lateral growth via increased light to lateral tips. Won't keep overall plant short. Good to use together w/ fims of main stem, which will temporarily slow vertical growth & help lateral growth through increased hormones to the laterals. Ok to go ~12 hrs. each time but better only every 2 or 3 days. Mostly useful for indica growth pattern where young plants look like a dense mushroom.
PT is good technique to push lateral growth via increased light to lateral tips. Won't keep overall plant short. Good to use together w/ fims of main stem, which will temporarily slow vertical growth & help lateral growth through increased hormones to the laterals. Ok to go ~12 hrs. each time but better only every 2 or 3 days. Mostly useful for indica growth pattern where young plants look like a dense mushroom.
Perfect well said sir...
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Hang on the light is about to come back on after 24 hours of darkness.. then i will snap a couple pics and explain. Thanks for the help brightlight!
PT works like a charm .
I use it on my heavy indicas
Those fat leaves don't let a shade of light through lol
No rush of course, I'm gonna research it anyways. I knew that technique for clones, but never saw it done throughout the grow, so that fascinates me.
I knew that technique for clones, but never saw it done throughout the grow, so that fascinates me. 
Dabby Duck
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Hey Toasty, great to see your girls. So ponytailing prevents vertical growth? Do you do just the flowers? Cause your plants are gorgeous and short, the way I need to do it.
Here is what you are looking at.
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Well shoot looks like they are going through an iron deficiency.. darn ph must be too high... should i add ph down with ANs ph perfect nutes? The ph shouldnt be over 8 though.. but maybe its not jiving with the soil or whatever. Ill have to keep a close eye on it..
Anyways the training goes as followed... once they reach their fourth node top them if they are big enough. Once those two branches grow a bit and the plant grows, lst the plant and tie her down. So the stalk is at maybe a 45 degree angle to the dirt. Doing that opens the middle of the plant up to the light allowing the inner growth to catch up big time, giving me that even canopy.
See how much she is bent over? You will only want to do that when she is young and flexible.. . so after you have your way with her, a few days later those two top branches should be the tallest. Mine are at the top and bottom in this pic.. next i will show you how they get there and stay there.
What you wanna do is start to tie them down like you did to the stalk, except to the sides of the pot so it all fills in in the middle.
Just wrap the string around the branch and pull down.. you can tighten or loosen or move it as she grows. Then ill tie down the other two bigger branches on the other sides of the plant if needed or any others around the sides that grow too tall.
I also supercrop or hst the top branches over if they are growing too much as well and the side branches get a weekly bend down until flower time. Imo lying the stalk down like that and letting the branches grow out allows for a much more stable plant then if you were to grow it normally. Otherwise you get one strong main cola and a bunch of floppy buds around the sides. Imagine a big erect penis surrounded by little flaccid penises.. wonderful imagery i know lol. .
Anyways the training goes as followed... once they reach their fourth node top them if they are big enough. Once those two branches grow a bit and the plant grows, lst the plant and tie her down. So the stalk is at maybe a 45 degree angle to the dirt. Doing that opens the middle of the plant up to the light allowing the inner growth to catch up big time, giving me that even canopy.
See how much she is bent over? You will only want to do that when she is young and flexible.. . so after you have your way with her, a few days later those two top branches should be the tallest. Mine are at the top and bottom in this pic.. next i will show you how they get there and stay there.
What you wanna do is start to tie them down like you did to the stalk, except to the sides of the pot so it all fills in in the middle.
Just wrap the string around the branch and pull down.. you can tighten or loosen or move it as she grows. Then ill tie down the other two bigger branches on the other sides of the plant if needed or any others around the sides that grow too tall.
I also supercrop or hst the top branches over if they are growing too much as well and the side branches get a weekly bend down until flower time. Imo lying the stalk down like that and letting the branches grow out allows for a much more stable plant then if you were to grow it normally. Otherwise you get one strong main cola and a bunch of floppy buds around the sides. Imagine a big erect penis surrounded by little flaccid penises.. wonderful imagery i know lol. .
bignugz420
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Great job on the pony tailing, it works great for lateral branch growth I was doing that on my autos in my journal, and toasted I am super excited about your dark period being over, I hope you get a beautiful stretch lots of great sitesHere is what you are looking at.just the top fans wrapping up the top nodes for a few hours. I found that if you ponytail then pull the light back about 4 inches the bottoms really stretch then when you untie them put the light back down again.
Okay I'm getting it, wow, never thought of doing it that way. Thank you so much for sharing, gave yah some reps for your effort. I just love learning.