Gifted clone

Reefslinger

Active Member
Sorry for the long post

Hey guys. I’m pretty much a new grower although messed around with the concept 20sh years ago but for the most part feel like I’m pretty green at this so very open to any guidance.

When covid started I spent 2 months at home and decided to dive in to this hobby (studying it at least). On June 10th a family member gifted me this clone out of the blue (amazing how the universe works). It was handed down a cpl times before it got to her (nobody really knew how to deal with her) so even though I wasn’t ready (equipment wise) I felt I was going to be able to take a good stab at this.

It was a rough start with the dog knocking her off a chair that I was positioning her to get some sunlight and the rootball separating from the pot and watering her twice with RO water which turned out to be a ph of 5 (guessing the filters needed changing) so although I kept her alive she pretty much stopped growing for 3 weeks while I tried to bring her back to life.

In the mean time I ordered most of my equipment and she is now in a 4x4 tent under a 240watt quantum board. I potted her up once into some happy frog potting soil mixed with about 5-10% super soil, mycos and some beneficials.

The plan is to to put her into a 30g sip in the next cpl of weeks and create a living soil for her to thrive in. Beginning a perpetual grow where I’m vegging 4 plants in a 4x4 under 480w of qb, then moving them over to flower in a 4x8 under 1440w of qb. And therefore looking to make large plants.

The strain of the gifted clone is unknown so I’m running a little blind. Right now she’s only about 7inches tall and has about 16 nodes on her already (is this crazy?) I’m looking for specific suggestions on how I should train her with so many nodes to get a large plant. She will be going into a 4x8 tent to flower with other girls following in her wake, so I should have plenty of room to give her the space she needs. Tia
 

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Gentlemencorpse

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I would mainline her and take that top from the mainline to use as a clone.
Sure ... OPs a new grower with a bushy clone of unknown origin ... let's suggest an advanced and time consuming training technique that works best when plants actually branch out a bit...

Okay, on to the actual question at hand ... there is no best way to train... a lot of it comes down to personal preference...

You have big plans and a lot going on already, honestly I wouldn't worry as much about training your first plant for a huge yield, Id worry about getting your environment dialed in for a successful grow. Super soils are awesome but they arent easy, you have very little control over the nutrients after your initial mix... so when you have a deficiency or toxicity its hard to make adjustments. Especially with toxicity... flushing out the nutrients would kind of defeat the purpose

I always advise new growers to keep it simple ... treat it like a science experiment... limit your variables... if your gonna go all nuts with SIP containers and super soil on a plant thats already had a stressful life dont go nuts with the training... honestly that girl is so bushy already I wouldnt do much of any training, Id get her into her final pot and see where she leads you ... when she starts branching out you can do some LST to get an even spread, but you don't need much else... worry about maximizing yield when you know you can get a plant to the finish line using the methods you want... imo anyways
 
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