The Main-Lining Thread

[tick tack toe]

here are mine at day 21. So far they have had the first 2 weeks of 12/12 and for the last week I have been using 13.5/10.5 with 5 minutes of my 730nm red at the end. This helped them flower quicker. In total there are 4 plant with 16 mains. The bottom left and top right are Trainwreck, top left is blue dream and bottom right is amnesia. The all stretched the same apart from one trainwreck that was slower. When you see the mainifold, you can see one plant has been lifted.

Not the best picture of the canopy. It is pretty flat and organised.

 

[Mohican]

Well done!

 

[PiercerNC]

First attempt at mainlining....

 

[Jad3]

Purps... you're an artist.

 

[Javadog]

Control Freak Heaven around here!

 

[Reggie Mack]

You guys are killing it!

 

[HATORI HANZO]

4 plant mainline 5x5 tent day 37. Plants are about 2 feet tall and trellissed for support. Not the cleanest mainline my timing was off with these unruly sativa's.

 

[Mohican]

Looks great! It is hard to keep up with all of the training!

 

[Reggie Mack]

Trying some LST vs. Mainlining arm...

 

[Reggie Mack]

Anyone else tried a side by side?

 

[ArcticOrange]

More of the Main Lined NL5XHaze some where around week 8/10ish

 

[PiercerNC]

 

[Mohican]

Perfect!

 

[PiercerNC]

Perfect!

First attempt at mainline/manifold and second grow attempt. First, was one female from bagseed, this one is 4 fem from seed, purple gsc x animal cookies. Hope it goes well.

 

[gr865]

So I am currently doing the nebula manifold technique, only topping twice, on Nirvanna Fem Bubblelicious and Fem Blackberry. This pic was taken a little over a week ago, the two on the right are the blackberrys with 8 tops, the two in the center are the bubblelicious, one with 8 tops one with 4 because of slow growth. The others are just freebies.
They are 41 days from seed under a 1000w mh in 10 gallon smart pots with pro mix hp. I plan on letting them veg until 3/12 so that they can grow big because I have the head room to do it. I'm hoping for at least 4 zips a plant.

Yes please post some more pics, I am curious of your pruning technique.
GR

 

[FredFlintstoner0420]

Hello everyone. This is my first post. I've been reading this thread and love Nugbuckets technique. I'm following Nebula's technique to save some time in veg as I initially let my plants go too long prior to making my very first cuts.

I'm growing Cold Creek Kush by TH Seeds and started from 5 seeds. One turned out to be a male and he got chopped down.

I'm in 5 gallon pots, currently vegging under 400w MH and plan on going to 700w HPS once I flip to 12/12. I have one 400w lamp setup and two 150w lamps.

I'm in a 4'x4'x7' cabinet I built, mylar lined, 171 cf/ps 4" hurricane exhaust leading to a carbon filtration system for now.

I'm at about 81-83° with humidity around 35% with lights on 24/7 while in veg. I noticed the jump in temp once I put the 400w lamp in and stuck the ballast inside the grow cabinet with the brighter and warmer lamp. Plans are to get the ballast out of the cabinet when I go to flower so I can take my temps down 7-9°.

Currently watering with R.O. pH to 5.8-6.5. I'm in 50/50 mix of Happy Frog and Ocean Forest and on a feed, water, water schedule. My feeding is at half the recommended dosage and I'm using General Hydroponics Grow, I'll be switching to GH Bloom when I flip, and I intend on using black strap molasses during later flowering.

Here are some pictures for you to see what I got going on. This is before I took the male out. Now there are 4 main lined Cold Creek Kush girls and one topped Sour Diesel girl in the cabinet.

I'm hoping to throw tomato cages in the planters and vegging to about 20-24" before flipping to 12/12 as I'm expecting the Cold Creek Kush to grow 2.5x before harvest.

This is my third grow, first manifold / main line technique. Any suggestions, hints, tips or tricks are greatly appreciated.

I'm praying for big, fat, beautiful colas!

 

[kmog33]

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[Purpsmagurps]

So what killed my yield yhis time around was letting undernodes stretch during flip. I only got about 6 inches of stretch!!! Fyi gor first time mainliners

 

[Mohican]

@FredFlintstoner0420 - looking beautiful! You will have donkey dongs!

 

[FredFlintstoner0420]

@FredFlintstoner0420 - looking beautiful! You will have donkey dongs!

Thanks Mohican! I'm starting to get some really good looking growth going on. At what point should I start staking my 8 mains down? Basically, how many nodes should I have before more training?

I'm assuming enough growth to allow each branch to start growing upwards once I'm about the perimeter of my container?

Sorry for the newb question and to anyone who may have already answered this!

I'll post new pictures in the morning, I just watered the girls after a four day dry spell and I'm sure they're going to have some awesome growth while I'm in bed!