"Main-Lining" Ace Of Spades (tutoral)

nugbuckets

nugbuckets

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venom21 said:
yo dude 2 quick questions for you.. do you prune the lower nodes on the plant as they grow, or do hack it up before you flower it leaving the tops? cuase i noticed you cut a lots and lots of bottom nodes off pretty much leaving like 7-10 inches at top for buds. also when u trans from your 1 gallon to the 7 gallon smart pots do you do it like sub does mixing a buffer zone with the hot SS? cause those 7 gallon pots are wider than tall and if u fill it halfway up with ss like u said u do then there isnt much room and it would seem that the bottom of the rootball from your 1 gallon pot would go deep into the smartpot essentially already hitting the SS
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i prune a few times, once to establish the eight main branches.....then a clean-up usually three weeks into flower....these won't be pruned quite so heavy underneath as the pics........i decide what percentage of ss i want to run, then pre-mix it, and not layer it, not enough room in smarties......works fine......
 
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venom21

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i know you top a couple times to establish the main branches, but i was asking when you prune the lower nodes on the main branches. so it seems based on your answer you do let them grow out a bit before you hack them off
 
sine143

sine143

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look at the timeline of his posts. He's posting as he's doing it. I'm a solid 2 days behind him
 
nugbuckets

nugbuckets

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venom21 said:
i know you top a couple times to establish the main branches, but i was asking when you prune the lower nodes on the main branches. so it seems based on your answer you do let them grow out a bit before you hack them off
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yeah, sorry, i should have answered that more clearly....i know what you meant.......i do wait until about the second to third week of flower to prune lower nodes, and on some branchier strains, any secondary growth......because i believe that you can alter any built up flowering hormones in the understory if you remove them too early, or before the onset of flower.....i do most the pruning right at that point where a grower says to themselves...."man it is getting thick in there!".....which is usually right towards the end of stretch, when you want more ventilation etc...........i can be quite aggressive in my pruning at that stage if i feel the strain can benifit from it...which is where the term main-lining starts to make more sense....because sometimes you have to prune a few semi-dominant heads that may even be part of the canopy, to distribute the plants energy most efficiently into the most dominant branches....
 
nugbuckets

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....so the plant is about 5 inches tall, has eight established leaders, while the plant is still symetrical, short, compact, and heavy structure, each leader will be treated the same by the root system, we set up a "hub" on the trunk, and then a "manifold"....now we will simply manage the eight tops to our desired height, then enter flower, and create eight matching "donkey dicks" with tops like the one in my avatar......stay tuned.
 
bshdctr

bshdctr

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Love this thread Nugbuckets! Its funny, when I first started growing I grew out a ShivaSkunk from SensiSeeds that yielded HUGE for me.....and at the time I didn't know it but looking back on the grow....I had inadvertantly "mainlined" the plant not really realizing that I had made 6 main branches coming out of the same "node/hub".

That plant is still one that sticks out in my mind as one of the largest yielding, sturdiest plants I've ever grown :)
Awesome stuff, keep it up!
 
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Wilksey

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Hey nugs, great thread, thanks for sharing your approach.

I've got a question for ya concerning this set of pics in post # 66.

In this first photo, it looks like you've got a topped plant with 4 branches coming off of the main stem.



And in this last photo, it looks like you removed 2 of the branches, so now the plant has only 2 branches coming off of the main stem, and these two branches will form the "mainline". Is that correct?

Thanks, dude.

 
Budologist420

Budologist420

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Wilksey said:
Hey nugs, great thread, thanks for sharing your approach.

I've got a question for ya concerning this set of pics in post # 66.

In this first photo, it looks like you've got a topped plant with 4 branches coming off of the main stem.



And in this last photo, it looks like you removed 2 of the branches, so now the plant has only 2 branches coming off of the main stem, and these two branches will form the "mainline". Is that correct?

Thanks, dude.

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Those other two stems in the first pic are the fans leaves bro

in the second pic you cant see them becuase of the angle he took the pic at

-BUD
 
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Wilksey

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nugbuckets said:
correct!.......we got 1-2-4-8.....ready to roll.
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Hmmm....

O.K.

Excuse my ignorance, but I'm still trying to wrap my head around pruning technique.

Would the stems on those fan leaves produce offshoots and more leaves, or did you leave them on to help the 2 branches above develop their own leaves, and do you intend to remove those lower fans once the two branches get further established?

Thanks in advance nug, and you too bud.
 
nugbuckets

nugbuckets

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Wilksey said:
Hmmm....

O.K.

Excuse my ignorance, but I'm still trying to wrap my head around pruning technique.

Would the stems on those fan leaves produce offshoots and more leaves, or did you leave them on to help the 2 branches above develop their own leaves, and do you intend to remove those lower fans once the two branches get further established?

Thanks in advance nug, and you too bud.
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yeah, just left on for now......there will be some more understory pruning down the road a bit..
 
Budologist420

Budologist420

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Heres a few shots from this morning.

Querkle x Agent Orange (AO dominant)


LD50 (Aliendog x Ripped Bubba)


And Timewreck soon to have 8 heads.


Thanks Nugs!

-BUD
 
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