New member! Need help mainlining!

Hello everyone I just joined your forums to further my knowledge in cultivating medical marijuana. I have grown before from seed but I got my hand on a clone and I need some help, shes growing beautifully in my DWC I just have a question I wanted to try mainlining as I got 10 clones for free and wanted to try it on one but I'm having difficulties on locating where? Since it's not symmetrical I'm a little confused and would love some guidance / advice since I will be doing a journal which I will be updating weekly starting this Friday

Here are pictures of anyone can help out I'd greatly appreciate. If possible to copy my photo and drawn on it where I should be cutting and what I should leave ect thanks

the way I do it on a non symmetrical plant is to count ever node point and next one up as a node set, so for example the lowest node and the next 1 above it is a set of nodes. Grow you plant a little more before topping to train mainlining, then when you top at your desired node, the next one down will be the corresponding branch which you will have to add an extra technique of LST to get them to match up on an even plane, it will not look as pretty but it will even up your branching to make the hub of the mainlining

BAMS said:

the way I do it on a non symmetrical plant is to count ever node point and next one up as a node set, so for example the lowest node and the next 1 above it is a set of nodes. Grow you plant a little more before topping to train mainlining, then when you top at your desired node, the next one down will be the corresponding branch which you will have to add an extra technique of LST to get them to match up on an even plane, it will not look as pretty but it will even up your branching to make the hub of the mainlining

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Thank you for replying! So basically in this photo when it grows a bit more top where the red is and cut off the blue likes to clean it? And let it grow / bend the 2 fan leaves down?

I would top the plant at your first (most upper) blue mark, leave the node that is below that (at your current red mark) as its corresponding set, and clean up everthing below that. Up to whether you leave your fan leaves for a few days to help recover from stress, but its your 2 new mains that you will be bending at right angles

or better yet as I think there is a node hiding in that photo just above your first blue mark, use those 2 as your new mains (the blue mark and the one just above it hiding), as they seem to be better spaced together and less uneven training

have you got and are you going to use a canopy ring?

perfect advice, dig mainlining , i remember nugbuckets explaining mainlining from clones where the nodes are uneven like that, should work great man

yeah I have a hard time distinguishing mainlining to bonsai growing, my personal opinion is they are one in the same pretty much

here did a pic for you for reference

BAMS said:

here did a pic for you for referenceView attachment 3638873

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Thank you so in reference bottom 2 blue keep for new mains middle blue top and remove everything below ect or top the top blue one keep the 2 reds and remove lover growth?

option B....Blue indicates cut it off and Red indicates keep it

BAMS said:

option B....Blue indicates cut it off and Red indicates keep it

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You don't think I should top it at the 3rd blue and keep the 2 shoots below that?

BAMS said:

here did a pic for you for referenceView attachment 3638873

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@Pkeh this is exactly how I said to do it in your other thread.
https://www.rollitup.org/t/mainlining-help.903598/#post-12441891

BAMS said:

here did a pic for you for referenceView attachment 3638873

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Nice. Very nice.

Gary Goodson said:

@Pkeh this is exactly how I said to do it in your other thread.
https://www.rollitup.org/t/mainlining-help.903598/#post-12441891

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I know I appreciate I just want to further my advice and knowledge I appreciate what you said

where you top it is entirely your choice, just a matter if you want easy access to under the canopy after it fills out or not, for example when you scrog. a good comfortable level of the screen is about 10 inches in most peoples opinion, doesn't mean you have to have it 10 inches because "Larry in over in Whoop Whoop, Alaska is doing it that way". The things you do need to consider is how many main nodes you want or can comfortably fit in your grow space. Ideally you want 8 mains for indoor grows, 8-32 mains for greenhouse and outdoors, and 32 for scrog set up. just remember more will not necessarily mean bigger yield, as you have more mains, more energy is divided, so the lower the number of mains the more concentrated the energy is to each main

Mainlining a clone with alternating nodes can be pretty annoying and ugly but it's very doable. If you can successfully FIM, you'll get back 2 (or 4) symmetrical tops to work with. Instead of mainlining, I prefer to grow the clone tall, then bend the entire plant sideways at the base, to a 90 degree angle and hold the lateral branches and the apex of the plant down with some chains. Same concept as mainlining except not as neat and symmetrical and I don't cut off anything. With LST'ing, your plants suffers little stress (if any) and growth will stay vigorous - will not slow down. Too bushy so I don't know if you can tell, but I have 15 lateral branches in there that will all become top colas (as well as everything in between).