tying down plants to increase yield !!

dill786 · Post by **dill786** » Sat Jan 28, 2012 12:17 pm

I have tied down my cannabis plants to increase yield and it does work,

i am wondering if you can tie down flowers and some vegetables like this to increase yield, when the plant is growing in vegetative growth, cant one tie branches down for a few days to bush them out a little and increase the flowers... ????

apart from tomatos ( bushy variety) i can think of any other vegetable that can be tied down to increase its yield ??

is it possibe though ??

Sun · Post by **Sun** » Sat Jan 28, 2012 12:45 pm

dill786 · Post by **dill786** » Sat Jan 28, 2012 2:25 pm

what other veggies would tieing down help??

Sun · Post by **Sun** » Sat Jan 28, 2012 5:58 pm

You can train just about any plant or tree. Grapes aren't a vegetable but it's best to train them by tying them down.

Intrinsic · Post by **Intrinsic** » Sat Jan 28, 2012 7:31 pm

Dill I can’t really think of any veggie plants that tying ‘em down as ya would a canna plant would benefit yield. But then I haven’t grown much of a variety.

Grapes, cucumbers, melons, polebeans, peas and such viney stuff of coarse needs to be trained. But not tying down? Maybe bush beans, more beans if they’re tied to spread out, but not for the same reason as canna to manipulate the apical growth.
I tie out my chilies and pepper plants for support for when the fruit gets heavy.

I’ll being trying some of that hubbard squash this year and I’ll fer sure be tying it up not down

dill786 · Post by **dill786** » Sat Jan 28, 2012 7:55 pm

thanks ^

thats why i was wondering, i cant think of any veg plants that could be increase in yield by tying them down...

Sun · Post by **Sun** » Sat Jan 28, 2012 8:28 pm

I've seen people force plants in the cucumber family to the ground to force them to form a second set of roots, tomatoes and peppers do better when you plant them in the ground horizontally.

bentech · Post by **bentech** » Sun Jan 29, 2012 12:11 am

tying down is simply a method of getting better fruiting results indoors with artificial lights

outdoors, its of no benefit to cropping

youd be better off injuring the plant soas to promote vigorous growth response

Mud Boy · Post by **Mud Boy** » Sun Jan 29, 2012 1:47 pm

They've been doing it with fruit trees for years.

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Some coffee farmers have also started to train their plants to get a bigger yield, and
there's a technique to keep coffee trees short where they tie the plant down horizontally, allowing one of the lower branchs to become the main trunk and then everything else is cut away.

bentech · Post by **bentech** » Sun Jan 29, 2012 3:38 pm

none of which increases the yeild,
it merely put into easier reach of the slave children the landowners uses to service his bottom line