I understood this part recently.... after sexing my plants. My first time around, I was fimming and sometimes weird things would happen, and it was hard for me to tell which were the 2 dominants. Now I top and it's very clear!Main-Lining.............
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i top the main and everything under the (clone) node below the hub......in other words leave the "hub" and the "clone" nodes....everything else goes away.....as long as each axial stem has a nice big fanner to power it, it will not stunt.......then the next pinch is determined by how long you want the 2 mains .....the clone stems are removed as soon as they can make a nice sized clone with a symetrical axial scar to dip into the gel....about 5 inches long from the bevel cut to the growing top (with the scars being 1/2 inch to 1 in above the bevel )...basic cloning.........then you are just left with the hub to manage, and its up to the grower how spread out he wants the manifold, that usually tells him exactly when to prune for 4 and 8......I understood this part recently.... after sexing my plants. My first time around, I was fimming and sometimes weird things would happen, and it was hard for me to tell which were the 2 dominants. Now I top and it's very clear!
When you top your plants after sexing, do you top them and let them recover and get fatter before cutting everything below or you cut everything at once?
congrats on your article for weed world
Thanks Nugs. I'm gonna run with that and see how she does. Much appreciated.Anytime i run something i don't know much about, i just figure OG's, other kushes and indicas dom. strains are lighter feeders........A good rule of thumb with Sub's strains is 50% average across the board.....little less for indica dom. strains, and a touch more for sativa doms.....but one should always go light for the first run of a pheno, and have the ability to supplement if needed by watching the color of the plant throughout the cycles....always best to run light, than heavy...heavy will stress the plant, sometimes stunting if she decides to lock out, missing her full potential by a wide margin.....under feeding, you will may end up with a heavy fade, a slightly lighter yield, but extremely clean-tasting herb....with an accurate expression of terpenes.......i could go on and on.....
...so i guess to answer your question...if it were me, i would go 20% on the OG...and 40-45% on the AO........nugs
THANKS!i top the main and everything under the (clone) node below the hub......in other words leave the "hub" and the "clone" nodes....everything else goes away.....as long as each axial stem has a nice big fanner to power it, it will not stunt.......then the next pinch is determined by how long you want the 2 mains .....the clone stems are removed as soon as they can make a nice sized clone with a symetrical axial scar to dip into the gel....about 5 inches long from the bevel cut to the growing top (with the scars being 1/2 inch to 1 in above the bevel )...basic cloning.........then you are just left with the hub to manage, and its up to the grower how spread out he wants the manifold, that usually tells him exactly when to prune for 4 and 8......
...the reason Main-Lining is considered advance method, is it operates on the assumption the growers knows how work a plant within his system already....simple things like knowing how to take a perfect clone, or make a plant stretch out, or stay compact....its common knowledge stuff.......that is the main reason i don't/won't offer day-to day instruction guildlines, or measurements etc...its so much more of a communication thing between the grower and the plant, and some of these concepts can only come from experience....
some extremely dank phenos have some pretty strange traits....i would run her and see how she turns out, you just can't argue with dank, no matter what the leaves look like....Nugs another question for you......
When your pheno hunting and come accorss a plant that starts to get random extra blades in the leafs do you automatically rule it out or continue to give it a shot. The last plant I had with this has serious issues so I'm wondering if the plushberry of mine that just showed extra fingers in the center of the more mature leafs is worth cloning.
Weed World Article...........
....the word is out, my three page article on "Vortex Modular Scrog" hit the news stands this week......Thanks Subcool......
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Not just true with plants
[QUOTE=nugbuckets;8389082]It takes a lot more skill and attention when the plants are older and the stems are woodier as far as pinching and bonding is concerned....the younger the plant, the more supple and takes bondage easier.