The Main-Lining Thread

JohnNeedsMeds

JohnNeedsMeds

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gr865 said:
This is so cool, I sent it to my bud in New Mexico who mainlines outside and he said he will do a couple of those in next years grow.

How wide would you say that thing is?

Wondering if I could do 3 or 4 of those in a 30 x 36 cabinet. Been trying to figure out if I can do three mainlines in that size cabinet.

Peace out,

GR
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If you keep them small enough I don't see why not. If memory serves Nugbuckets started in a small cabinet almost just like that. :) He was really good at size training his gals. Awesome stuff. :)
 
hyroot

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^^^^ it was more for an even canopy if anything. Look at all his outdoor ones nugs did prior to the cab. Some were 6 ft x 6ft x 6ft.
 
JohnNeedsMeds

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hyroot said:
^^^^ it was more for ab even canopy if anything. Look at all his outdoor ones bugs did prior to the cab. Some were 6 ft x 6ft x 6ft.
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Yes I remember those. The cabinet had him squirming for a bit because there was so little vertical space, and with an HPS over the plants it made it really difficult but he managed it and grew some amazing colas in there. :)
 
whodatnation

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First post of the thread is what Im talking about.

nugbuckets said:
....i started growing in a closet.....it was a 32" by 32" by 48" (tall)......and i was determined not to out grow my space.....i would grow 4 plants in 3 gal. nursery pots under a single 400 watt HPS......i learned very quickly that if i wanted to end up with something smokable, i had to learn bonzai techniques in a hurry to manage my heights......so i started in with LST (low stress training), and managed a very, very modest harvest my first few attempts.......as each run progressed, i would find myself getting really anal about properly managing my 32" x32" canopy where i would jam up to 48 colas in my tiny space, and strive to make the canopy as flat as possible......
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The very next post is titled "and mainlining was born"
 
whodatnation

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Here we go.

nugbuckets said:
I am getting a lot of requests to put a formal "main-lining" thread together to make it easier for ya'll to access, and reference....so here goes......


"Main-Lining"

definition. a form of training and managing canopy for cannabis.....to build a "hub" off of a single node creating a "manifold" for equal energy distribution from the root mass to the growing tops.


....it really is that simple....i am sure it has been done before, and a lot of folks do it, and probably even has a name, but I just call it "main-lining".....my theory being, on a plant from seed, if all branches came off of the same node on the trunk, they should all get the same amount of hormones and nutrients ...or energy, from the root mass.....like building a "hub"........make sense? I am all about an even canopy, of very similar sized stems, and colas.....like green lady soldiers lined up ready to kick ass and take names......no weak ones, no runts, no spindly ones.....just all solid and consistant......

.......so if they all come off the main stem, like spokes on a wheel, they should all be pretty much the same.....right?

....i started growing in a closet.....it was a 32" by 32" by 48" (tall)......and i was determined not to out grow my space.....i would grow 4 plants in 3 gal. nursery pots under a single 400 watt HPS......i learned very quickly that if i wanted to end up with something smokable, i had to learn bonzai techniques in a hurry to manage my heights......so i started in with LST (low stress training), and managed a very, very modest harvest my first few attempts.......as each run progressed, i would find myself getting really anal about properly managing my 32" x32" canopy where i would jam up to 48 colas in my tiny space, and strive to make the canopy as flat as possible......


…...... i began to reap some pretty respectable harvests.......of course i would be topping the main, and spreading out the footprint of each plant, but my finished colas were not very consistant overall as far as size and weight were concerned.....and i would still end up with a fair amount of "larfy" popcorn bud from the understory, which was undesirable for me because i, and my newly found patients, were primarily flower smokers........so i dug deeper........and soon found myself in a slighty larger grow space, in a completely legal situation, allowing me to openly work on my developing theories.........



........my next grow i topped the main, and left two nodes off the main trunk, built my bonzai type structure, managed my canopy really well, but still noticed a huge difference in the energy output of the colas originating from the upper and lower node, even though they were separated by a mere inch on the trunk.....they were similar, but still varied quite a bit.......i did however end up with a decent canopy, and harvest.....i was getting closer......

.....then it hit me, that single inch on the trunk separating the two nodes was the key.....so my next grow, i decided to build the entire structure off of a single node....
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FuckJeffGoldbloom

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Yeah i was going to say, i thought he started first in the cab, then graduated to a better growing space, legal etc.

Either way it was born and nugbuckets is the fuckin man!
 
hyroot

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whodatnation said:
Here we go.
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Main-Lining"

definition. a form of training and managing canopy for cannabis.....to build a "hub" off of a single node creating a "manifold" for equal energy distribution from the root mass to the growing tops.


canopy where i would jam up to 48 colas in my tiny space, and strive to make the canopy as flat as possible......

began to reap some pretty respectable harvests.......of course i would be topping the main, and spreading out the footprint of each plant, but my finished colas were not very consistant overall as far as size and weight were concerned.....and i would still end up with a fair amount of "larfy" popcorn bud from the understory, which was undesirable for me because i, and my newly found patients, were primarily flower smokers........so i dug deeper........and soon found myself in a slighty larger grow space, in a completely legal situation, allowing me to openly work on my developing theories.........
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thats what Im refering too. he started after
 
FuckJeffGoldbloom

FuckJeffGoldbloom

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Yeah, i think your right, the time line is just confusing the way it's worded i guess, but i concur, as he shows that pic with the extra 2 shoots out the bottom.

Fair battle.

lol

point hyroot. point whodat

we all winners around here when we talking nug buckets method
 
hyroot

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^^^^^ I think you are allowed so many a day or something. It does that to me sometimes too. thanks for the rep though.
 
FuckJeffGoldbloom

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Just by main lining my current plants, I have learned so much about the plant that i have never even considered. I never considered how aggressive you can be with cannabis, or should i say strains of cannabis. But the desire to strive for the light, the strength in the plant to always be resilient and grow, even after being bent 90 degrees down, and be in perfect formation for the light in 8 hours is amazing. Its bondage and bonding lol, great method I am loving every minute of it.
 
whodatnation

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Its very hands on :-) My type of learning. I will agree with you. I knew a thing or two before mainlining but it def opened my eyes more to how plants respond to training throughout their lives.
 
JohnNeedsMeds

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FuckJeffGoldbloom said:
Just by main lining my current plants, I have learned so much about the plant that i have never even considered. I never considered how aggressive you can be with cannabis, or should i say strains of cannabis. But the desire to strive for the light, the strength in the plant to always be resilient and grow, even after being bent 90 degrees down, and be in perfect formation for the light in 8 hours is amazing. Its bondage and bonding lol, great method I am loving every minute of it.
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LOL It's as if they were meant to be treated this way and respond ever more aggressively after the mistreating. :D
 
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