The Main-Lining Thread

[Mohican]

20 to 30 more days of vegging depending on the growth. The plant needs to be a little bigger before you top it for the first time. I know how hard it is to wait. You will get better each time you do this and then you will be teaching all of us

 

[syphex]

I tried this... it seems good if you want a longer veg time. But I still wonder... wouldn't 8 plants with one head reach the same stage before one plant with 8 heads?

 

[grasscropper]

Grasshopper please follow my link in thread I will be updating often but my first attempt at main lining and relying on the lads in here to help me decide when to chop

Will do. Thanks. I am doing some LST with clones. Have not purchased seeds yet as I need to succeed at a harvest before picking out what I'd like for my needs. It's really interesting looking through these threads and seeing how well you guys are doing. I have an issue with fungas gnats in the veg room at the moment. My outside plant is 4 weeks into flower and has been easy to deal out outside.

 

[TimesNewRoman]

Is there cons with mainlining to 32 colas per plant as apposed to the normal 8 colas outdoor? would you get 4x the bud growing a 32 cola plant? same amount per cola or would the colas be less dense? Im working on getting a 25'x20' grow area outdoors. If I were to mail line each plant how could I get the most from my space? 35 16cola plants would make 560 colas. or 20 32cola plants would make 640 colas. 35 32cola plants would make 1120 colas but i think that might be pushing it... i dont know. OR as many 8 cola plants as i can? Potted or In ground? These questions may have been asked and answered already but hey, take it easy. Im not that tech savvy and there is 317 pages. not quite sure how to narrow it down. thanks in advance for any help.

 

[captainmorgan]

Is there cons with mainlining to 32 colas per plant as apposed to the normal 8 colas outdoor? would you get 4x the bud growing a 32 cola plant? same amount per cola or would the colas be less dense? Im working on getting a 25'x20' grow area outdoors. If I were to mail line each plant how could I get the most from my space? 35 16cola plants would make 560 colas. or 20 32cola plants would make 640 colas. 35 32cola plants would make 1120 colas but i think that might be pushing it... i dont know. OR as many 8 cola plants as i can? Potted or In ground? These questions may have been asked and answered already but hey, take it easy. Im not that tech savvy and there is 317 pages. not quite sure how to narrow it down. thanks in advance for any help.

I don't want to speak for nugs but I think the idea behind mainlining was for even distribution of plant resources. If you let a plant grow natural you will end up with a variety of buds,some large, some small, some dense, some fluffy depending on where it is on the plant and the size of the branch. You wont necessarily get a larger yield from mainlining but a more consistent type of yield,I think some here have even said they got close to the same yield when doing 8 or 16 but that can depend on many things like pot size and veg length and more. I like to mainline to 8 and every bud is great,no fluff of popcorn buds for hash. If you veg longer and use a large pot you can increase the yield from 8 to 16 but I think that's true normally. It also helps me by keeping the plant shorter for indoor growing and you can keep a even canopy with supercropping like a scrog. Your buds are more concentrated in a zone so your lighting can do a better job,with a tall plant you have to worry about penetration. You can also get better air circulation because you can arrange the mains for better air flow.

 

[budolskie]

finally in the new home lads under the 400w mh

 

[Shawns]

The main purpose of mainlining is space its a way for people with limited space to get amazing results, he proves that large yields in small spaces are achievable

 

[tusseltussel]

I don't want to speak for nugs but I think the idea behind mainlining was for even distribution of plant resources. If you let a plant grow natural you will end up with a variety of buds,some large, some small, some dense, some fluffy depending on where it is on the plant and the size of the branch. You wont necessarily get a larger yield from mainlining but a more consistent type of yield,I think some here have even said they got close to the same yield when doing 8 or 16 but that can depend on many things like pot size and veg length and more. I like to mainline to 8 and every bud is great,no fluff of popcorn buds for hash. If you veg longer and use a large pot you can increase the yield from 8 to 16 but I think that's true normally. It also helps me by keeping the plant shorter for indoor growing and you can keep a even canopy with supercropping like a scrog. Your buds are more concentrated in a zone so your lighting can do a better job,with a tall plant you have to worry about penetration. You can also get better air circulation because you can arrange the mains for better air flow.

+ less trimming and they are very mobile it takes 2 months to flower so if you veg while flowering it adds no time having to veg longer because your flower room only opens up every 8 or 9 weeks. the first run is a little longer at 4 months but for me that is selection time and I run a bunch on a 1 month veg take clones and pick out my keepers by the end it's a 2 month cycle and we're off

 

[captainmorgan]

The main purpose of mainlining is space its a way for people with limited space to get amazing results, he proves that large yields in small spaces are achievable

Sorry to disagree but you should re-read the OP. He says it's a form of training and managing canopy and the manifold for equal energy distribution and here's a quote.

• " I am all about an even canopy, of very similar sized stems, and colas.....like green lady soldiers lined up ready to kick ass and take names......no weak ones, no runts, no spindly ones.....just all solid and consistant......"
  
  There are benefits such as height control but that doesn't seem to be his main focus.​
  
  
  
  

 

[tusseltussel]

you might reread it because height control was his main reason for starting this journey. he used to grow in kitchen cabinets and needed an even canopy of short plants.

Sorry to disagree but you should re-read the OP. He says it's a form of training and managing canopy and the manifold for equal energy distribution and here's a quote.

• " I am all about an even canopy, of very similar sized stems, and colas.....like green lady soldiers lined up ready to kick ass and take names......no weak ones, no runts, no spindly ones.....just all solid and consistant......"
  
  There are benefits such as height control but that doesn't seem to be his main focus.​
  
  

 

[captainmorgan]

you might reread it because height control was his main reason for starting this journey. he used to grow in kitchen cabinets and needed an even canopy of short plants.

I've read it and that's what may have started his experimenting but I think his quote at the beginning I think sums up what he thinks is the most important to him. He could have scrogged and super cropped but you still are not as consistent.

 

[hyroot]

Imo mainlining tall plants at least 3 feet tall at very minimum will get you a good yield. Anything shorter will only pull 1-2 zips. Still big buds. I still mainline once in a while. But I get much much bigger buds and 4 times the yield just growing Christmas tree style. I only mainline when I get a new strain to compare. This method is very strain dependent. Nugs was only about height control in his cab. Its more about having an even canopy. His outdoor mainliners were huge. Some finishing at probably over 6 or 7 feet. The DNA one on his deck last year was 5x5x5 feet. He has grown some of the most beautiful outdoor that I have ever seen.

 

[tusseltussel]

I've read it and that's what may have started his experimenting but I think his quote at the beginning I think sums up what he thinks is the most important to him. He could have scrogged and super cropped but you still are not as consistent.

but my penis is bigger than yours so I'm right.

 

[Someacdude]

Nice thread, thank you

 

[captainmorgan]

but my penis is bigger than yours so I'm right.

I'm not even going there,you win it's to make tiny plants.

 

[Shawns]

Its to make big yield in small spaces

 

[shadyslater]

iv seen 16 32 headed main-lines on the tube @ 4foot plus

id say main-lining works in all spaces

 

[Mohican]

It is also about increasing the number of main colas while decreasing the spindly branches and the larfy popcorn buds.

Cheers,
Mo

 

[Mohican]

The Mulanje #1 ML reveg disaster is finally starting to throw serrated leaves and flowers. I don't even know how many heads there are now. 128 hehe







The MuMo Bubblegum is still building:







The north garden looks good. The mature flowers are adding frost and the vegging plants are starting to explode:












The Mulanje #2 is happy in the compost pile with a surprise melon plant:








Cheers,
Mo

 

[gr865]

Well here I am at around day 51, with all the problems I have had they are not looking that bad, a few days behind schedule but hey that's my life.

Should be going under 12/12 in the next week to 10 days, have to do a little more work on the cabinet and I go in for surgery on Thursday, that will set me back a few days.

Here are a few pics as of today. Q! under the SS400, before trim and re-tie, and after trim and re-tie. Note the three main shoots, so this plant will be grown out with 6 main cola.


Q2 under the SS400, prior to trim, after trim and re-tie.



I just love this lamp, growth galore and from those that I have talk to that have this lamp I am expecting some great buds off of these two, that is if they work with me an turn out to be females.

Peace Out,

GR

Man I can't get over how much this Querkle smells, even for such young plants.