The Main-Lining Thread

....Quarter of a million hits in 375 days!!!!!......that's 670 hits each day over a whole year!......fucking awesome!!!!.......thanks for the support, even though I have not been around....busy, busy....and I always believed in passing the torch, and it certainly seems like that is the case with Main-Lining....thanks again everyone....pass it on!.......nugs....:leaf:
 
Thanks for all your hard work nugs,I love this style for my setup.I'm on my 3rd run with mainlining and my first from seed,it's so much more effortless from seed than clone I'm finding out.Here's my critical kush from seed mainlined to 8.
 

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broke and rebuilt itself on this side. the back side with the blue tape broke months back and it ended up gettin grown over, so now its stuck in there.....PEACE
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Mainlining will be a commonplace occurence in Canna-gardening some years to come Nugs, thanks for the knowledge and `passing the torch` ;)

KC :weed:
 
Since nobody answered I am gonna ask again. I have been reading a lot in this thread but there is one thing I did not see or maybe missed. I see from the pics on page one that you pruned your main lined plants a good bit. How many nodes do you leave for each head? For a 8 Head plant would I prune everything and just leave 3-4 node on the top?
 
Looking forward to my baby taking off soon. Felt like I may have cut too much too fast and set her back, slow growth but she is now set for 8 and just needs to be put into 5 gallon smartpots and tied back again when she is ready. I see what you mean by learning curve and watching how she responds. Thanks for all the great info Nugs!

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003n1gm400 said:
Since nobody answered I am gonna ask again. I have been reading a lot in this thread but there is one thing I did not see or maybe missed. I see from the pics on page one that you pruned your main lined plants a good bit. How many nodes do you leave for each head? For a 8 Head plant would I prune everything and just leave 3-4 node on the top?
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It`s a matter of taste really mate. Generally speaking, if you`re trying to harvest for just tops ... you`re only leaving the top 30-40% maybe to bud in term of node numbers. You can leave more ( I did a mixed experiment, and left up to 8 nodes down), but it depends what you`re after. I found the plants I left to grow additional under nodes produced less up top ... just some food for thought ...

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**Edit - 8 headed Cataract with undernodes intact ... **

KC :weed:
 
003n1gm400 said:
Since nobody answered I am gonna ask again. I have been reading a lot in this thread but there is one thing I did not see or maybe missed. I see from the pics on page one that you pruned your main lined plants a good bit. How many nodes do you leave for each head? For a 8 Head plant would I prune everything and just leave 3-4 node on the top?
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Like the previous post say's it's up to you. My current run ML'ed to 8 I let get about 6 inches above the ring and trimmed everything below the ring then put it into flower. Then about 2 weeks into flower when stretch was about done I trimmed off most all the lower stuff that grew to look more like a branch,if it wasn't going to hug the the main stem most of it went. Not sure if this is the recommended approach but that's what I did.
 
KushCanuck said:
It`s a matter of taste really mate. Generally speaking, if you`re trying to harvest for just tops ... you`re only leaving the top 30-40% maybe to bud in term of node numbers. You can leave more ( I did a mixed experiment, and left up to 8 nodes down), but it depends what you`re after. I found the plants I left to grow additional under nodes produced less up top ... just some food for thought ...

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KC :weed:
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Great post KC.

This is where I cannot confirm which is the best route to take.

Leaving the under-nodes to grow reduces the growth of the top,
but does their growth end up yielding greater weight? Is there
sufficient flavor/strength differences that would make a lower
weight acceptable if tops were increased?

This is like the question of whether to rotate plants, to avoid
weak spot that sit away from the light. i.e. this will increase
the size on "the dark side" but at the expense of "the light side".
So, it is not clear which is better....I am thinking that bud quality
might settle the matter.

...but I expect that this might end up a matter of personal preference.

Thanks as always for taking the time bro.

JD
 
Javadog said:
Great post KC.

This is where I cannot confirm which is the best route to take.

Leaving the under-nodes to grow reduces the growth of the top,
but does their growth end up yielding greater weight? Is there
sufficient flavor/strength differences that would make a lower
weight acceptable if tops were increased?

This is like the question of whether to rotate plants, to avoid
weak spot that sit away from the light. i.e. this will increase
the size on "the dark side" but at the expense of "the light side".
So, it is not clear which is better....I am thinking that bud quality
might settle the matter.

...but I expect that this might end up a matter of personal preference.

Thanks as always for taking the time bro.

JD
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It depends on your plant type Java as to whether or not it will affect the `top` yield. If the strain naturally grows large tops ... then leaving undergrowth will affect their development in terms of size. The flavour matter however, I`ve never found the lower buds to have a different flavour quality than the tops, so in the quality department it won`t be a noticeable difference.

In my experiment, the plant left to grow just the 4 dominant heads out yielded the one with 4 + an undernode set ... not by much, but still out weighed. What I gathered from that was the plant with the undernodes had more to support up top in terms of heads (only 4 being dominant), whereas the other was able to put all the bulk into her 4 dominant heads without having to support the `leechers`. Happy growing all :D,

KC :weed:
 
Just very simply put ...

This with 3 heads ...
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... out-weighed this with 7 heads (each plant lost one during training) ...
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The plant got to use all of it`s energy to drive weight into the lesser head count. They were similar in weight, but one with less than half the number of heads :D

KC :weed:
 
so what your saying is more heads = less yeild???

nugs nice to see you about, at least if ya cant stop n chat throw us a few picks lol

DNA LEMON SKUNK......one will be 8 head the other 16 to find out if more heads influences yeild! (so tell me kushcanuck)

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KC is pointing out that in that instance, the fewer heads won.

General statements would be more difficult, if not impossible, IMHO.

I bet that this is also highly affected by the strain being used (said already).

JD
 
Mainlined Mulanje Gold, Mulanje x Mozambique Poison (MuMo), Marion Berry, Scott's OG, MuMo Bubblegum#1:











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Mo
 
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