The Main-Lining Thread

well since they have to stay , They'll make for good Krispie treats ! I'll know for next time . Which is good to know now . Next round is Turkish cookies and Fruity pebbles x alien dog cherry . I been using fox farm just , the big bloom , tiger bloom , big grow , with mammoth p . & Flower fuel . cal - mag 1-0-0 .

Any recommendations on any better nutes ?
 
morugawelder said:
well since they have to stay , They'll make for good Krispie treats ! I'll know for next time . Which is good to know now . Next round is Turkish cookies and Fruity pebbles x alien dog cherry . I been using fox farm just , the big bloom , tiger bloom , big grow , with mammoth p . & Flower fuel . cal - mag 1-0-0 .

Any recommendations on any better nutes ?
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Nope. Right now I am running 4 plants each with a different nute system to try and find one to settle on. I'll have a recommendation in about 2 months though :)

I take that back. I have been pleased with the Fox Farms crystals. (Open Sesame, beastie blooms...)
 
H.A.F. said:
Nope. Right now I am running 4 plants each with a different nute system to try and find one to settle on. I'll have a recommendation in about 2 months though :)

I take that back. I have been pleased with the Fox Farms crystals. (Open Sesame, beastie blooms...)
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What size and kind of pots you growing in ? air , geo , hard plastic etc.
 
morugawelder said:
What size and kind of pots you growing in ? air , geo , hard plastic etc.
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Fabric pots, and I've done 2-5 gallon, but am leaning towards 3 as the best size for me. Big enough to grow a decent plant and not be rootbound by the end, but small enough not to weigh 50lbs wet and take many gallons to do a flush. The 2 gallons I have going now with the 4 skunk was just so I would have room for 4 at a time. They dry out really quick when the plant flowers though. Makes figuring out feeding a bitch.

Check out my thread (link below). I have every size going right now LOL. The one I have in a 5 gallon is exactly at the flower stage yours is. You can see what some of that pruning does. The 4 skunks are almost at week 3, and I'll be pruning them up tomorrow night when I feed them. I'll post before and after's and it might make more sense
 
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If I do 2 gallon pots in the future it might be figured out with lower ppm nutes, but doing a feed-feed-water to get 6 days out of it without too much thinking. I was having to feed or water them every other day.
 
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H.A.F. said:
If I do 2 gallon pots in the future it might be figured out with lower ppm nutes, but doing a feed-feed-water to get 6 days out of it without too much thinking. I was having to feed or water them every other day.
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I like the 3 gal. used them last winter , they was in a 2 x 4 . surprisingly I got about 8 oz. dry . no mainlining tho .

Think I'm gonna try the fabrics next time , I feed every other day also just half , I been mimicking what Northwest Jay watering program . .
Thats a beauty you have going in the 5 tho , nice big nugs ! I'm going for 4 next , now I'm in a 4 x 4 , the FP X ADC , Turkish cookies , sweet inszanity , and Alien orange gum x alien tech .
You have better results with fabric than the reg. plastic pots ?
 
Back to the mainlining stuff. Here is my (now) 5-top. Because of other stuff I have growing I have this one slow-vegging under a HLG65v2. It's chugging along, but will go under a 260 in a week or so after I harvest a plant.
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I had one limb that was slower than the others (top left) so I am just pruning it until flip. I topped one just because. I just picked the one with the best (most even) 2 sprouts to top. the sprouts with the red arrows are 2 shoots I'll keep, also just because. I'll keep pruning shoots above those two until I flip.
 
H.A.F. said:
Back to the mainlining stuff. Here is my (now) 5-top. Because of other stuff I have growing I have this one slow-vegging under a HLG65v2. It's chugging along, but will go under a 260 in a week or so after I harvest a plant.
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I had one limb that was slower than the others (top left) so I am just pruning it until flip. I topped one just because. I just picked the one with the best (most even) 2 sprouts to top. the sprouts with the red arrows are 2 shoots I'll keep, also just because. I'll keep pruning shoots above those two until I flip.
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I think I'm getting it , how long till you transplant from solo to final home ? 5 topper , cool to try different things . How old is she now ?
 
morugawelder said:
I think I'm getting it , how long till you transplant from solo to final home ? 5 topper , cool to try different things . How old is she now ?
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She's almost 7 weeks, and she's in her final 3 gallon pot. I hate repeated transplants, too much chance to fumble-fuck it up.

If you check out my page, I just had too many plants in flower, so I had to 12/12 my veg room and use my tent for veg. Only for about another week though.
 
I think I may have vegged a hair long than needs , she got really big across , will never get 4 in there next time , even mainlined .
Will move down to 3 gal. and cut veg time down . How long do you let them go before transplanting in final home ?
 
morugawelder said:
I think I may have vegged a hair long than needs , she got really big across , will never get 4 in there next time , even mainlined .
Will move down to 3 gal. and cut veg time down . How long do you let them go before transplanting in final home ?
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Usually about 2 weeks or so in a solo cup.
 
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so do you think its worth the extra time mainlining then just some topping and tieing down ?
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I'm testing that with my 4-pot grow as well. They aren't getting topped or anything, and I flipped them at exactly one month old. They should n be ready to harvest in 75-90 days total. If the weight and density are there, it might be a waste of time. I do know that it produces even, large buds. Mainlining my 4-top took about a month. She was right at a month old and had a good base when I had to move her and slow her down.

I like main-lining, and I think the extra month is worth the effort in the long run. Once it's set, you don't have to do anything. No constant training and pruning, and good light penetration everywhere. But weight-wise, I don't know if it matters that much. You get better quality produce though.
 
My mainlined plants are 10 weeks vegged this Saturday, 1 foot tall and the trunks are pretty unimpressive. Can't see how they'll yield anything close to a 10 week vegged tree
 
Here's the final stretch. 51 days old. The green arrow is the topped one, the orange ones are the extra sprouts I'm keeping. Since I am not flipping until there's room in the flower room. I'm going to let everything go north now and see what happens.IMG_8965.JPG
 
Hempire828 said:
Fellas have I screwed up? Have I taken too much off? Or maybe cut in the wrong places ... seemed easy to due until I started looking at it??? Is this a mainlining or a manifold.. or garbage?View attachment 4326632
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The good thing about manifolds, (look at mine above) is there's not a wrong way to do it. You topped it right for the 2 initial limbs, Just let everything go for a bit and watch. You have a lot of stretch, which might make it tough when you get to the pot edge.
 
I @Hempire828 I just thought of something that I was planning to try, As long as height isn't an issue for you, there's nothing that says it has to be flat-level. For me the goal is to keep however many cola I have right at the pot edge. So what I was thinking for a sativa is just keep lightly training it to the sides, but not worrying about the final position of them until I get to the "flip" point. So it would look kind of like what you see under a SCROG net - bare limbs heading mostly up until they get to the parts you are keeping.
 
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