Did I begin mainlining correctly?

@euphoria526 - yeah the spacing is something that is learned after a my first run. My first time mainlining I didn't maintain the training enough and they ended up more vertical than I wanted.

For any mainliners here, I have been documenting my progress with the method (nebula). I'll link my grows for reference. Note: I am not claiming to be a mainlining expert, but there may be some information people may find useful.

Here's my first mainline grow: https://www.rollitup.org/t/second-home-budget-micro-grow.1034406/
Here's my second and current: https://www.rollitup.org/t/3rd-times-a-charm-6-plants-96-colas.1048278/

BunnysBeasts said:

I use bubbleponics with my new plants and the plant in question. I cloned the stems I cut off so there's three now. Blue dream bagseed. It's actually close to a month old now and has what looks like female parts which I've read is rare to show on a vegetative plant. I'll post pictures of what I mean shortly and y'all can see if it's a mutant plant or not lmao

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So here's the pictures of the FIM cuts one went well but the one in focus is haywire idk what's gonna happen there. Also a picture of what I assume to be an early indication of female, the devil horn shape growths are coming up where I cut the growth away. So what I'm about to do is find a way to gently pull the growth tips away from each other with plant tie or something so they space out. Especially since we may have extras growing since the FIM.

Lagged said:

@euphoria526 - yeah the spacing is something that is learned after a my first run. My first time mainlining I didn't maintain the training enough and they ended up more vertical than I wanted.

For any mainliners here, I have been documenting my progress with the method (nebula). I'll link my grows for reference. Note: I am not claiming to be a mainlining expert, but there may be some information people may find useful.

Here's my first mainline grow: https://www.rollitup.org/t/second-home-budget-micro-grow.1034406/
Here's my second and current: https://www.rollitup.org/t/3rd-times-a-charm-6-plants-96-colas.1048278/

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Thanks for the links. Trying to figure a way to tie em down in hydroponics, there isn't much to hook anything to and I may need to do a net of sorts like SOG to space it all apart.

BunnysBeasts said:

Thanks for the links. Trying to figure a way to tie em down in hydroponics, there isn't much to hook anything to and I may need to do a net of sorts like SOG to space it all apart.

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Looks like you are in those square plastic pots? I’m using binder/alligator clips and soft ties, should work for you too. Should be able to work for you also. Just make sure it won’t dig into the stems.
When it starts getting bigger, everyday go in there and spread out the steams to each cola, bit by bit. No need to supercrop them but they will shape to it with consistent pressure.
milk probably continue to mainline plants in the future. Might try a quick SoG run with 12 solo cups to get something to smoke for a quicker turn around. Maybe 1 gal’s and mini manifold 6 plants to 4 cola’s a piece lol

euphoria526 said:

Looks like you are in those square plastic pots? I’m using binder/alligator clips and soft ties, should work for you too. Should be able to work for you also. Just make sure it won’t dig into the stems.
When it starts getting bigger, everyday go in there and spread out the steams to each cola, bit by bit. No need to supercrop them but they will shape to it with consistent pressure.
milk probably continue to mainline plants in the future. Might try a quick SoG run with 12 solo cups to get something to smoke for a quicker turn around. Maybe 1 gal’s and mini manifold 6 plants to 4 cola’s a piece lol

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Rapid rooters, clay pebbles, 3.75" net pots, in 5 gallon bin reservoir. Only the one pot with the one plant until the clones root then I'll add them to the reservoir since there's 6 spaces, and only one plant currently. DWC Bubbleponics but not top fed. Currently bread tie 'hooks' on string binder clipped to the lid of the reservoir.

You should be able to use the clips with soft ties for the first bend or two with no issues I believe.

If you gents do soil and try a 10+ gal bag, you can see how a manifold really takes off. With a huge root ball they can build into trees. The bigger the bag or pot, the more spread out it becomes both above and below the soil line.

I can only imagine outdoor what kind of monsters could be built with a manifold. You could make a plant with a 15 foot circumference at the bottom easily.

Tomato cages are so key guys, I have manifolded using bamboo and also w cages. Although more support than a cage is needed, it still works amazingly well to hold up about 80% of the plant.

I'll give a single 10gal pot a run next time just to see what happens.

Looks like the fim is gonna be one or two extra on top of the usual two from topping.

those things with the arrows pointing to them aren’t preflowers, most nodes will grow those.

Dank Bongula said:

I'll give a single 10gal pot a run next time just to see what happens.

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Even taking out a 10g bag from the pack will cause a laugh. They look 10x bigger than a 3g and 2x bigger than a 7g.

But the ability to spread them out wide to as much as 16 to 20" before having them grow upwards creates beasts. I had 8oz min per 10gal last run. At peak they take 2gal of water every few days.

charlieo said:

This only will work under a 6/3 lighting schedule the buds won't stack and swell st the end.

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What will "only work" under a 6/3? Hopefully you're not referencing mainlining.

charlieo said:

I'm referring to that "asswedging" you call a main line it's not going to yield unless you use 6/3

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Oh..I don't see any reference to asswedging but I'm assuming you're talking about OP's picture? I think you are dearly mistaken though, friend. I know that @MickFoster mainlines and has some wonderful harvests. I pulled 8oz on 3 plants with like 12 LED flood lights on my first grow ever. This run I'm looking on track to pull 14oz or so with my Mars Hydro TSL2000.

Both grows I used 20/4 and then 18/6 into 12/12. I'm interested in this 6/3 method though, care to explain more?

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Oh..I don't see any reference to asswedging but I'm assuming you're talking about OP's picture? I think you are dearly mistaken though, friend. I know that @MickFoster mainlines and has some wonderful harvests. I pulled 8oz on 3 plants with like 12 LED flood lights on my first grow ever. This run I'm looking on track to pull 14oz or so with my Mars Hydro TSL2000.

Both grows I used 20/4 and then 18/6 into 12/12. I'm interested in this 6/3 method though, care to explain more?

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I've seen and complimented Mick's grows too. He has a super fast veg even though he heavily trains and gets big harvests of top buds. I can attest that it works just fine under standard lighting and with the right size pots (larger than normal).

Because you can veg for any length of time it would be easy to get a lb, 2lbs or even more off of one plant if given enough room and time and pot size.

I have only grown WITHOUT manifolding once, just to try it. It made sense in my mind and I have done it since my first grow. Risk / reward, it takes a few more weeks and more space and will grow (ime) 1.5x - 2x or more per plant of quality.

Your mainline is fine don’t worry about it.

the only part I found a little tricky was trying to keep them all the same height when the flower stretch happened.

I gave mine more than 8, turned out perfect even not knowing what I was doing. Pretty tough to screw up.