Man those look really good @MickFoster!! I’m about to let my two hempys drain in the next hour or two and then I’ve got two bubble Gums that just popped above the rapid rooters!! #Stoked Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum
You know they’ll be just as bushy as they were again in two weeks. Nice job!! I love it when people show the pile. It makes those that don’t beleive in defoliation cringe
I will defoliate and trim as needed to create my 8 colas and not a bush. If I go vertical from here, how long do you think it will be before I should flip?
Not sure if they're stretchers. I was thinking another week of vertical and then flip. What do you think?
Here's my mainline timeline, hope it helps. 19 Dec set up training ring as my hight goal. 22 Dec most tops at or near ring, final strip before flip. 24 Dec she's recovered. I flipped to 12/12 on the 26th of Dec. As of today, my tallest main is 15" above the ring. Unfortunatly, I didn't do a very good job of keeping my tops even. They've broken themselves into 3 hight groups. 2@15" 4@12" and 4@10". I'm not sure how much longer she'll stretch.
So I know this may be a stupid question but what are the pros to main lining vs just LST or tying down branches? Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum
Not a stupid question. I think all methods of training have advantages and disadvantages. I had never done mainlining before so I thought I'd try it. I may or may not do it again but I will always LST and never go au natural.
The idea behind a "mainline" manifold is that each arm is at an equal distance/node. So traditionally you grow one main cola with a bunch of smaller secondaries, or with LST/SCROG creating a "more" even distribution of growth between the tops. With a mainline you creat 4, 8 16, etc main colas with little to no side branching. Each of your arms has a "main line" directly to the roots.
Not necessarily. The idea is that the 8 or 16 colas will grow the same and be the same size because of the symmetrical topping. All of the tops are exactly the same distance from the main stem which in theory means they will grow the same.
Thanks it's one of the rings from an old tomato cage I had sitting around. I just used a set of bolt cutters to nip it into three separate rings. Sent from my SM-N920V using Grasscity Forum mobile app
Not sure what I did on the earlier post, actually had some input, if you long press it you can see what I said, I was on the pc at work, lol Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum