First Time Using LST & Topping (so far)

Discussion in 'First Time Marijuana Growers' started by MotoAnt, May 12, 2024.

  1. This is my second time growing ever, last year came out better than I'd hope for so this year I'm getting a bit bold and decided to try some new techniques.

    Both started as clones and have been in their pots about 2 weeks.

    So far so good?? Feel free to comment away too.

    Pics are from today.

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  2. nicely done friend!
     
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  3. I thank you for that and especially your help in my other posts:wave:
     
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  4. i would suggest waiting 1 week then topping everything again and you will have a huge plant looking good so far what size pot is that? how big is your grow area? what light are you using?
     
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  5. Those are 10 gallon pots and outdoors.
     
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  6. I have the same light this go round ;) it turns itself on/off & is free. My 4 y/o led seems to have lost it's mojo. :confused_2:
     
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  7. Where would you suggest I top again? I'm still a wee bit unclear how this works.
    @leodicapario

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  8. BOLD? "mainlining" ? for a 2nd grow? :rolleyes: I'd call it Ballzy AF. No risk it, no biscuit. Whatever your doing, keep doing it. :metal:
     
  9. Good to know thank you good sir:thankyou:

    :metal:I'm having so much fun doing this sometimes I gotta touch myself.
     
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  10. Nice training and you're growing some healthy looking plants. As your post suggests you topped them and are LST-ing them. That is not how we mainline a plant @nachoboomer. If you're interested in mainlining or augmented mainlining a plant I have a journal on mainlining and another thread just about augmented mainlines. Both threads go into detail on when to top,how to top and why it's done in the way I show.
     
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  11. Thanks for the feedback upload_2024-5-15_20-42-6.gif

    I have no clue what mainlining is, is this something I should into or for now just stick with topping & LST'sing?
     
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  12. Mainlining? An advanced technique??? Not sure why I'm so hesitant to try it, after all I got 4 years under my belt now. 1st attempt with a "steady Eddie" photo like GDP??? indoors/outdoors?
     
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  13. Something like this
     

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  15. this was topped a second time and now has 16 tops and is 5 ft tall inside in an 11 gallon pot with yours being outside i would really think about going 20 gallon you have about two months of veg time and could produce a tree with enough root space
     
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  16. Your fine training just as you are. Mainlining is just another training technique we can use to train our plants. I prefer it for my indoor plants as it helps me fill out my tents with little wasted space and no need for the netting used in scrog training. I like to be able to move my plants out of the tent if necessary and scrogging doesn't allow that, mainlining does.
     
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  17. You can mainline outdoors too. I just see no real benefit from doing it outside. Outdoors we don't have issues with light reaching the lower bud sites and it's easy to clean up a plant for better airflow outside. Outdoors, I usually just top once to break the apical dominance. I find having one very large central cola usually ends up with botrytis. By topping we eliminate that possibility.
     
  18. Nice plant @sosogrow. But, that is not a mainlined plant that is just a plant that has been topped a few times. A mainlined plant works off from the first topped "Y" and everything is grown out equally from the first topping. With a mainlined plant every growth tip has an equal distance pathway to the roots.
     
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