Alohasmiles731
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I was thinking about mainlining couple of my plants. Can anybody give me some advice step by step on how to do it? Is it like doing LST?
Mainlining?
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T macc
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Just follow the grow easy guide. Use the web browser
Some lady named “Nebula Haze” had a great mainlining tutorial, Google it, pics and everything and you’ll end up with some nice baseball bats although I still cringe with mainlining/lollipopping.....in personal expirements, while it was easier to trim and looked nicer, I ended up with LESS weight when I mainlined and grew the same plant with just LST or au-natural. Maybe I just suck at mainlining....i really like au-natural outdoors or vertical lighting. Good luck!
Bignutes
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Im mainlining now, some strains that i thought would be good aren't and some sativas are working out well, go figure. A couple of my plants starting alternating nodes way too early so so far I think I am going to have a variety of grooming methods. I'll let the plants tell me if they are good candidates and then just roll with the punches.
i love sativas and just harvested a bunch of Rare Dankness GTH#1, Medical Seeds 1024 and Jack LaMota, i usually top x2 and do the 4-way LST with landscaping-felt spikes (u-shaped metal spikes). I also think stringy sativas are the best for SCROG if you have a few months to wait. I thought I’d really like mainlining but it didnt suit my strains or setup, i felt like the plants were telling me “I’m being restricted from doing my best here guy”
Bignutes
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I agree, it knocks them down real hard stripping them. They look real good as I haven't stripped them full, left the two lower branches to use as clones or as colas, decisions decisions. Two look good for mainlining so far. I like the 4 way but not a fan of scrog net. Thinking of topping three on top and leave the lower two branches on the ones not being cloned for ten colas total. Seems like a good compromise.
Bignutes
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I'm liking the 4way lst better, mainling takes too much too recover and stuns the plants as nugbuckets does. The lower two branches are as beefy so the colas should be a good size from them. In the past I'd use the diameter of the branch, if it wasn't as thick as the rest the cola remains smaller. The 4 way distributes energy from the initial topping better into the lower branches, I like it, thank you for the tip!
exactly what I found compared to mainline, but again its about your setup and light source; I use both fixed and open, vertical bulbs thru flower and get full plants similar to outdoor, but if I just had my CMH fixture above mainling definitely would expose more bud to light. Glad you investigated....
