Flux training

Harvested my alaskan purple today
Amazing dark purple looking buds and dence as rocks...

Malawi gold is growing out very very fast....just love it

Training out the FFT03 test strain by fastbuds

Fruity pebbles doing so great and looking simply amazing with those pinecone shaped buds on her

Gorilla glue auto by fastbuds is coming along so nicely...still a few weeks left...

Nice dude, what lights are you running?

Axion42 said:

Nice dude, what lights are you running?

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99w spiderfarmer SF1000

Looks great. I'll be trying my hand at this flux training coming up, popping some new genetics to see how they fare.

Hey SS, how long do you veg for after you've acquired the X amount of tops you want? Let's say 18 tops you have them tied down and even, how long would you veg at this point. I'm asking because I plan to try this in my stealth grow which is only 56inchs in head height, minus the 5gal bucket they are sitting in. Should I expect to flip right after getting my acquired tops?

I know this also depends greatly on strain and I only plan to grow indica dominant strains in this cabinet and I also use blue supplement LEDs during stretch to keep the plants shorter.

Axion42 said:

Hey SS, how long do you veg for after you've acquired the X amount of tops you want? Let's say 18 tops you have them tied down and even, how long would you veg at this point. I'm asking because I plan to try this in my stealth grow which is only 56inchs in head height, minus the 5gal bucket they are sitting in. Should I expect to flip right after getting my acquired tops?

I know this also depends greatly on strain and I only plan to grow indica dominant strains in this cabinet and I also use blue supplement LEDs during stretch to keep the plants shorter.

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This is a Malawi gold at day 48 from seed...she has 18 mains on her and is already in flower so 42 day aprox

but

Axion42 said:

Hey SS, how long do you veg for after you've acquired the X amount of tops you want? Let's say 18 tops you have them tied down and even, how long would you veg at this point. I'm asking because I plan to try this in my stealth grow which is only 56inchs in head height, minus the 5gal bucket they are sitting in. Should I expect to flip right after getting my acquired tops?

I know this also depends greatly on strain and I only plan to grow indica dominant strains in this cabinet and I also use blue supplement LEDs during stretch to keep the plants shorter.

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but usually i veg for 1 week longer after i have my amounth of branches so that they can come up a bit

I

Axion42 said:

Hey SS, how long do you veg for after you've acquired the X amount of tops you want? Let's say 18 tops you have them tied down and even, how long would you veg at this point. I'm asking because I plan to try this in my stealth grow which is only 56inchs in head height, minus the 5gal bucket they are sitting in. Should I expect to flip right after getting my acquired tops?

I know this also depends greatly on strain and I only plan to grow indica dominant strains in this cabinet and I also use blue supplement LEDs during stretch to keep the plants shorter.

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i have 46 inches of total height in 2 boxes and i grow led so i am obligated to grow as flat as possible

And sorry i mis calculated the Malawi has 16 mains....i cut of 2 at one side to give them more space

Silky_smooth said:

so i am obligated to grow as flat as possible

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so your plant manipulation makes alot of sense.

Do I see this correctly you top at the first node? How about the timing?

Kassiopeija said:

so your plant manipulation makes alot of sense.

Do I see this correctly you top at the first node? How about the timing?

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Second node and i guide them out in a T-Shape from there and next as they grow out i only keep the horizontal secondaries and remove the vertical ones to not overcrowed her and when they are a week into flower i start binding and bending 4 inward to fill in the middle part....like in this next session i did this morning on the Malawi gold

Fruity pebbles is finishing up very nicely still a week left on her but she looks so amazing with those pinecone shaped nugs on her....

Malawi gold by anesia seeds is coming along nicely

Starting a flux:strain: BlackBerry moonrocks autoflower:
Grow out untill 4th node
Next step is to top down to second node(placed a sissor)

And cut of the first node

Next let recover and when she is just starting to grow out
Guide her in a T-shape to start

Now this is how a flux training or turtlemainline starts

Very interesting, I'll be following allong. Who did teach this technique to you, or is it your invention? The carcass whats left after harvest looks like these facehugger creatures from the Alien movies.

This Fruity Pebbles strain looks amazing.... its a really remarkable budform plus the color and then these top leaves look like ears

BTW can you say from experience how many nodes will be there with a pair of leaves, or does this change from plant to plant? It seems to me your only using the pairy nodes, isn't it?

Kassiopeija said:

Very interesting, I'll be following allong. Who did teach this technique to you, or is it your invention? The carcass whats left after harvest looks like these facehugger creatures from the Alien movies.

This Fruity Pebbles strain looks amazing.... its a really remarkable budform plus the color and then these top leaves look like ears

BTW can you say from experience how many nodes will be there with a pair of leaves, or does this change from plant to plant? It seems to me your only using the pairy nodes, isn't it?

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Out of exp i use the pairy ones because they are more open(meaning the inner works of the stem) to guide the nutes arround in a more even way then the unpairy ones....for what reason i still am figuring out but she recovers faster from topping when you top at 2nd-4th and so on like you would with basic mainline and the flow of nutes

You can also see when i take a sideshot over the stem of the Malawi that the base is lower then all the ends in the flux...its only a difference of 1inch but it improves the flow of nutriënts arround the girl significantly and helps for faster growth

And there are books published over the technique but i found out after i did it myself and before the book was published i perfected it over the years of practice so i can preform it also on auto’s but the slightest mistake with this technique in auto’s can be a dissaster to your final result
But if all Goes good you can become results like this:gorilla glue auto by fastbuds 195gram of dried buds at harvest she yeilded shy of 900 gram of trimmed wet Bud and lost 1 to mold unfortunatly so she could have reached 210-215