The Main-Lining Thread

[Six9]

My first mainline chopped in half for drying. I had a mindset to clear all growth to first ring tomato cage, and her stretch led me from there. I learned a lot, will apply better practices next time, but wow I like this..

 

[slinkysaurus]

My first mainline chopped in half for drying. I had a mindset to clear all growth to first ring tomato cage, and her stretch led me from there. I learned a lot, will apply better practices next time, but wow I like this..
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Looking great bro!
I've noticed from this thread (yup I've read every last page) that people trim farrrr too much off the bottoms of their manifolds !
I think you could have easily got away with it much further below your ring. crops looking awesome tho

 

[BM9AGS]

My first mainline chopped in half for drying. I had a mindset to clear all growth to first ring tomato cage, and her stretch led me from there. I learned a lot, will apply better practices next time, but wow I like this..
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Looks awesome!!!
Care to share your lessons learned? I just began my mainlining.
Except I'm leaving all fan leaves be. No reason not to

 

[Six9]

Looks awesome!!!
Care to share your lessons learned? I just began my mainlining. View attachment 3736169
Except I'm leaving all fan leaves be. No reason not to

I was using a large diameter tomato cage and wasted too much vertical by "shooting for 1st ring" on both veg and growth nodes. With COB I'll be able to get closer than the ~28" distance Mars LED required. So different lights, less wasted vertical, and keep tomato cage installed! I removed it thinking branches would never get that heavy under LED. They did and I had to use yo-yos when top ring tomato of cage would have worked like a charm. I think keeping under canopy clear of larf helps bigtime. I'll probably not exceed a 7 gal pot size either, 10gal was a heavy beast after watering. I may try four 5 gal mainlines next, focusing on tighter, narrower growth. Cheers yours looks great so far!

 

[BM9AGS]

I was using a large diameter tomato cage and wasted too much vertical by "shooting for 1st ring" on both veg and growth nodes. With COB I'll be able to get closer than the ~28" distance Mars LED required. So different lights, less wasted vertical, and keep tomato cage installed! I removed it thinking branches would never get that heavy under LED. They did and I had to use yo-yos when top ring tomato of cage would have worked like a charm. I think keeping under canopy clear of larf helps bigtime. I'll probably not exceed a 7 gal pot size either, 10gal was a heavy beast after watering. I may try four 5 gal mainlines next, focusing on tighter, narrower growth. Cheers yours looks great so far!

Thanks for your info. This should be awesome

 

[citeh]

25 days above ground, topped 3 times so far.

 

[slinkysaurus]

I've stopped counting now at over 40 tops...
4 weeks from seed. Best plant I've ever come across. White Lemon.

 

[Growdict]

Chop day. These 2 crown royale went 68 days but turned out great. A few pics from before i started chopping. Going to be a good yield. Probably 5-6oz each under the cmh315

 

[slinkysaurus]

25 days above ground, topped 3 times so far. View attachment 3736445View attachment 3736446

Hey Citeh,
Assuming that's you on 8 heads now (3rd topping)
How come you left one large fan and not 2?
(One for each branch node)
I would be very interested to know if you manage to keep all 8 now growing equally, as 4 are missing a big fan!
Let me know

 

[citeh]

The 8 tops are even. I removed the inner leaves to get more light to the new tops and to make it easier to train. Mostly the latter. I'll probably pull the other 4 fans tomorrow because they are getting in the way of pulling the branches around and they are so close the the coco it's making it difficult to water evenly.

She's resting now, but I'll post pictures tomorrow.

 

[Pat666]

Anybody mainlined I'm DWC I'm interested in trying and am starting to try and design a good support ring that attaches to the buckets lid. Looking for any info or suggestions. Thanks

 

[PiercerNC]

A few pics of some Nirvana WW and Sin City Nightmare OG

 

[PiercerNC]

Anybody mainlined I'm DWC I'm interested in trying and am starting to try and design a good support ring that attaches to the buckets lid. Looking for any info or suggestions. Thanks

My last run was mainlined in DWC.

 

[citeh]

@slinkysaurus Here you go, nice and even so far. Squat little thing. (Day 30 above ground).

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Front

 

[Pat666]

My last run was mainlined in DWC.

Awesome how did you support it as it started getting bigger and then budding. I'm hoping I can use these yoyo hangers I've been using and maybe try to fabricate a support ring to bucket lid. Also any suggestions or issues you came across is love to hear. Thanks

 

[PiercerNC]

Awesome how did you support it as it started getting bigger and then budding. I'm hoping I can use these yoyo hangers I've been using and maybe try to fabricate a support ring to bucket lid. Also any suggestions or issues you came across is love to hear. Thanks

http://m.lowes.com/pd/47-in-Powder-Coated-Galvanized-Steel-Wire-Square-Tomato-Cage/50373256
A 5 gal bucket will fit right in the middle of it. I used yo-yo's as well.

 

[Mohican]

Drill holes in your bucket and use 12-14 gage insulated copper wire. When you are using fabric pots you can use the velcro garden tape.

 

[Mohican]

Great looking harvests and manifolds all!

 

[Pat666]

http://m.lowes.com/pd/47-in-Powder-Coated-Galvanized-Steel-Wire-Square-Tomato-Cage/50373256
A 5 gal bucket will fit right in the middle of it. I used yo-yo's as well.

Thanks for the tip. Do you run an RDWC? I'm wondering cuz I'm thinking it might be hard to have bucket inside that cage when I go to do my weekly bucket clean and refill. I'm thinking about attaching a rig to the lid so when I need to do Res change I can lift whole thing off as mine piece.

 

[PiercerNC]

Thanks for the tip. Do you run an RDWC? I'm wondering cuz I'm thinking it might be hard to have bucket inside that cage when I go to do my weekly bucket clean and refill. I'm thinking about attaching a rig to the lid so when I need to do Res change I can lift whole thing off as mine piece.

I just removed the soft ties that I used to attatch the plant to the cage, the cage opens, slide out, slide in and reattatch soft ties. I was running dwc buckets, no reservoir.