Hello fellow growers first indoor/training grow. I have a few photos of me trying my hand at some intensive training. I want COLA'S. HAHA Definitely adds a good bit of time to my veg cycle. Hopefully pays off in the end. I topped one plant 7x and the other (Frankenstein) 10x this round. Now I am going to let them reach up to my desired height about 24 inches before flower. The bush is a cotton candy I topped once and letting her do her thing aside from leaf tucking.
These were just some random beans I through in to practice. I figured I could just use top of bucket for a support ring of sorts and save some soil. It has probably 3 3.5 gallon of soil. Then I got attached and wish I would have filled them. My autos I just started I filled to about 2 inches from top.
I know I ALLLLLWAYS have to deal with "settling" of the soil......so mine always "drops".....but it's not by a ton....so im always good to go. Those branches still have to grow up and over the lip of that bucket....so the "real" training will start then.......IMO
I think you kind of cherry-picked that pot. The others are FAR lower in soil. But... you did not ask for advice. Rock on!
What makes them weak? To many to soon? I should have added that ya advice is awesome trying to learn.
It's just that the more branches you make it have, the thinner they get...as though the plant divides it's structural strength equally among it's 'bones' , if that makes sense...
If there's no knowledge or ideas in old threads why keep them so long. I just see guys get bashed for referencing old threads and in same breath why don't you read do some research first... just sayin
I am TOTALLY FOR people bringin up old posts....that AT LEAST means they did a search.....might not have READ any of it to get any knowledge...but bringing it back up will also bring up the opinions of ones not necessarily here anymore.....
Mainlining is usually topped 3x to create 8 tops, sometimes 4x for 16 tops, but not 10x. That's the reason one of the posters said that the stems are thinner.
