"Main-Lining" Ace Of Spades (tutoral)

Cool idea and thread Nug. Ill be watching as well. But the clone vs seed aspect is something, as far is the symmetry gos. How do you get around it with clones?

Oriah said:

Cool idea and thread Nug. Ill be watching as well. But the clone vs seed aspect is something, as far is the symmetry gos. How do you get around it with clones?

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bonzai magic of course! i have a clone that is almost ready to go....if ya'll promise to be gentleman, i will show you how to gently torture this lady.

we best start a timeline, to determine the extra days it takes to get the intended results...

1) AOS bean sprouted Mar. 15th

2) D-train #3 clone taken on Mar. 20th

Thanks Nug for posting something we can all follow and learn from. Like a live MMJ research project


I'm along for the ride.

Jakebake420 said:

Thanks Nug for posting something we can all follow and learn from. Like a live MMJ research project


I'm along for the ride.

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...its a never ending research project as far as i'm concerned!

....here are some pics of some clone mamas and bonzai's with a properly built hub......i will started building one tomorrow for ya'll.........also notice in the first two pics how the main stems are the same diameter.....now imagine 8 of those! it is like growing eight separate plants off of one trunk......ooooooh, the possibilities!

Gotta love Ace of spades for sure,

....prune for four

...notice how the clone node shoots are gently LST'ed at this point....this is very important, because it directs the energy to the four nubs we need to flourish.

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prune for four, and LST

and this is the young clone.....starting young is key......everything comes off but three tightest nodes each with a healthy fan leaf.....hard to see in second pic, but the top is taken out.....you just want three alternating nodes, but you want them close together, and with similar sized fans...they need to power each node equally.....you can do 4 also, but it can be harder to get them close enough together.

Im really wanting to do these with 2 of my seedlings (when the time is right of course). However, I'd be doing hydro...

bigbillyrocka said:

Im really wanting to do these with 2 of my seedlings (when the time is right of course). However, I'd be doing hydro...

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works for hydro too!

......major bondage......

This is a really great thread nugbuckets....Or should I say Don Juan. You really make those ladies bend. Thanks for sharing such a great technique to canopy contol. The pics really help to lend clarity to the "main line" concept

i am loving. you truly are the master of LST and topping...

so, main-lining and topping? what is the diff?

budman678 said:

i am loving. you truly are the master of LST and topping...

so, main-lining and topping? what is the diff?

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what up budman....hows the querkle looking?

i call it main lining because it is all about the cambium.....which is what moves nutrients and water/energy through the plant...inner bark essentially....anyways, think of it as a manifold on a moter...distributing what the plant needs from the root system into each branch equally, like each branch is a port to a cylinder....this being a V-8...hee, hee....

....it will all come into focus, when we do the main pruning.......

....the difference between "main-lining", and topping is this........when you top, generally a few nodes are left on the trunk to develop the branches and colas....say you leave three nodes....there wil be two mains(top), two mediums (middle), and two small (lowest)......each set gets treated differently by the plant, because right off the bat, they compete for light, and therefore nutrients, and energy from the root system......when you mainline, you build a hub off the trunk, and all branches originate from the same level on the trunk.....stay tuned.......it will be worth it.

Got through the first 6 pages. Im pretty convinced this is the way to go. Excited for my QT plants to grow a little bit more so I can start main lining.

few more pics of where we are taking this mo-fo......

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