Huge
Update 3-3-22 (3.5 month mainline veg, huge branches) week 1 Flower
Personally I think manifold is a better option. Mainlining is nice but takes far too much time. Outdoors, in the free sun, mainline away but it hurts my feelings to cut away growth and pay for power etc... Plus wait extra weeks. I just let it grow up 6nodes bend over and top, allow branches to come up a bit too then top to 10-12 branches, strip off the underneath then let them come up for a week or so and flip.View attachment 5111618
Dont mind my pjs
Also mainline (w/o bending) Can make for tall plants. I don't have the verticle space
I always weigh in whether I'd be able to get another flower room done in the time I'm vegging 2 other runs. I'd rather get 3 runs out than 1 or 2. It still takes me time to veg but I try to keep it at a min. I also veg plants in a diff tent while the flower rooms running. Take clones week 4 flower root by week 5-6 then plant and establish for a week and start vegging for a few weeks before even getting into the main flower room. By the time it's chop o'clock the new cuts are ready to explode.I have to mainline or my plants outgrow the allocated space. I'm doing a perpetual grow with a dedicated VEG room and dedicated BLOOM room. Plants move out once large enough for nets and are allowed to stretch into netting, tuck here n there and strip the lower third of the plants.
If I can keep getting 18-21 oz per plant doing that I'll be happy. Just topping plants or doing it the easy way doesn't seem as rewarding.
I just love the Hulk arms you get from some plants when the arms of the mainline are lined up perfectly. Lately I've topped at the 4th or 5th node and stripped the others but node 2/3 or 3/4, leaving 4 arms to build from. It's a little faster than building from a single node mainline, BUT you don't get as fat a trunk or the Hulk arms. Yields are identical no matter how I've topped/trained plants though, it doesn't really matter how you do it as long as you fill up your footprint with colas (if you are going for yield). I've always thought the main purpose of mainlining was #1. the fun of it and #2. Great pictures.
Actually, I honestly don't think the yield was related to the mainline, but my best yielding plant last grow also had the best mainline. It produced just under 1 lb, and that was due to the incredible vigor of the cross, but it did grow some nice Hulk arms. View attachment 5111632
oh god, that image is so accurate lolLooks like an alien woman spreading them legz. Yeah man mainline is scary process at first but once you try it its hard to go back to just topping or letting plants grow like xmas tree.
Rule #1. Never watch si-fi movies on acid!Looks like an alien woman spreading them legz.
@calvin.m16 What size container was that last plant grown in, and about how tall was the plant at maturity? Thanks.With mainlining if you micro manage the plants and use stakes to keep all the branches equally spaced like a table top start to finish you can achieve record yields but it's 5 times more work than just topping them and if you don't do it right you can ruin a plant.
The plant on the left is not main-lined it's only topped whereas the plant on the right is main lined. If you notice, there isn't a huge difference other than the topped plant has less equal height branches, even with training and moderate net training. They are different strain plants but as you can see I can speak for both methods.
View attachment 5054298
View attachment 5054299
View attachment 5054301
View attachment 5054300
View attachment 5054302
The last picture, that plant yielded 36 ounces (2.2 lbs) of dry trimmed bud under a 1,000 W HPS Double-Ended Gavita. The plant was so hefty that the dual layer netting couldn't even support it with stakes as well....
@calvin.m16 What size container was that last plant grown in, and about how tall was the plant at maturity? Thanks.