doug1627 said:
am i better off just letting the plant grow, i have room to let them get 4-5 ft tall. the only reason i want to use LST is because i read it gives bigger harvest.
If a MJ plant is allowed to grow with no modification, and another MJ plant is given full LST, HST, and any other growth modification you can think of, and both plants are given unrestricted height and indentical treatment, then both will have almost the same exact yeild.
This has been proven many times.
The advantage of growth modification is when one or more of the major growth variables is altered, the altered variable can be compensated for by in turn, altering another variable or more to negate the growth modifications and produce an identical crop despite the changes in growth variables.
Now, that's a mouth full.
In other words, if you limit the possible height of the plants, you can modify other growing variables to compensate for that lack of height and still produce the plants normal yeild.
That, is the advantage of LST and HST.