Is Mainlining worth it?

[calvin.m16]

With mainlining if you micro manage the plants and use stakes to keep all the branches equally spaced like a table top start to finish you can achieve record yields but it's 5 times more work than just topping them and if you don't do it right you can ruin a plant.

The plant on the left is not main-lined it's only topped whereas the plant on the right is main lined. If you notice, there isn't a huge difference other than the topped plant has less equal height branches, even with training and moderate net training. They are different strain plants but as you can see I can speak for both methods.






The last picture, that plant yielded 36 ounces (2.2 lbs) of dry trimmed bud under a 1,000 W HPS Double-Ended Gavita. The plant was so hefty that the dual layer netting couldn't even support it with stakes as well....

 

[Willy B. Goode]

With mainlining if you micro manage the plants and use stakes to keep all the branches equally spaced like a table top start to finish you can achieve record yields but it's 5 times more work than just topping them and if you don't do it right you can ruin a plant.

The plant on the left is not main-lined it's only topped whereas the plant on the right is main lined. If you notice, there isn't a huge difference other than the topped plant has less equal height branches, even with training and moderate net training. They are different strain plants but as you can see I can speak for both methods.
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The last picture, that plant yielded 36 ounces (2.2 lbs) of dry trimmed bud under a 1,000 W HPS Double-Ended Gavita. The plant was so hefty that the dual layer netting couldn't even support it with stakes as well....

Well done.

 

[MTD78]

Most definitely

 

[MTD78]

Excellent job

 

[calvin.m16]

Well done.

Thank you, only getting better with time. Definitely never perfect!

 

[Boatguy]

Scrog can certainly give you more yield, but there's a bit of a tradeoff in regards to ongoing work/maintenance, lack of mobility,

That i agree with. Major pain in the ass.

arguably a lack of airflow in the lower canopy in comparison, general plant inspection, and post harvest work like trimming - to me that is the biggest selling point

Not so much there. In a scrog their is no lower canopy. Maintaining under screen airflow is quite easy with no leaves. The fastest trimming job i ever had was a scrog with 0 larf and nothing but colas to deal with.

 

[calvin.m16]

That i agree with. Major pain in the ass.

Not so much there. In a scrog their is no lower canopy. Maintaining under screen airflow is quite easy with no leaves. The fastest trimming job i ever had was a scrog with 0 larf and nothing but colas to deal with.

I agree airflow isn't a problem if you defoliate and lollipop/strip the lower third or so of the entire plant, personally I defoliate all big fan leaves off the plants Day 1 (flip) and on Day 20 of bloom leaving only small leaves. If a plant herms from it or can't take that training stress I throw it out.

Lower airflow is very important and the easiest and cheapest way I've achieved it is mounting oscillating fans low in between the upper fans in a V pattern like upper fan > low fan > upper fan > low fan.

 

[Boatguy]

Airflow isn't a problem if you strip large fan leaves off the plants on day 1 of flip and day 20 of bloom. Sounds extreme but personally if a genetic herms from it I throw it out. I'm growing in a basement with 10,000 watts of HPS canopy can't have all that humidity added in I've already got TWO Quest 155 units running half the day even with defoliated canopies.

As for airflow you should always be stripping the lower third of your canopy all the way up including auxiliary nodes unless you want a bunch of LARF (Leafy And Really Fluffy) buds.

You misunderstand me. I am talking about an actual scrog. All growth under the screen is completely removed leaving only the tops.

 

[calvin.m16]

You misunderstand me. I am talking about an actual scrog. All growth under the screen is completely removed leaving only the tops.
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That still shouldn't be a problem with airflow? Mount a fan high up blowing down into the canopy.

 

[Boatguy]

That still shouldn't be a problem with airflow? Mount a fan high up blowing down into the canopy.

That is exactly why i was disagreeing with the post i quoted.

 

[calvin.m16]

That is exactly why i was disagreeing with the post i quoted.

Ahh I see now, sorry need more coffee.

 

[MTD78]

No longer and more developed the plant is the more it will yield, I veg for about 4 months but your getting 2 harvests off the same plant only the second harvest will already have a super highway for nutrients and produce an even larger harvest that the first. In a much shorter window

 

[MTD78]

Updated 1/8/2022

 

[Watters]

Topping.

 

[MTD78]

Update

 

[MTD78]

Update

 

[MTD78]

Update

Mainlining

 

[Dank Bongula]

How thick are the stems getting?? I got one mainline drying while the other two mainlines finish up in the tent with a midget white widow.

 

[Cannabinoid Froyd]

Everyone's girls are looking really nice.

 

[MTD78]

Huge