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8.16.23 - 1 week old, recovering well from the topping. Waiting for a bit more growth on the two new top nodes before LSTing them down for a proper Main-line. Should be ready for watering tomorrow or Friday.
8.18.23 - Accidentally snapped a branch on the left clone doing some manual LST. Taped it up and it recovered after only 24 hours, leaving the tape on until it comes off naturally. Watered plants this morning @ 6.4pH + 1/2 tsp of Recharge. New nodes starting to grow nice, wondering if I should top the two mains again.
8.21.23 - Knuckle forming nicely where I accidentally broke the stem. Will let that knuckle heal some more before LSTing the branch to not cause more stress. Both plants topped once on both new nodes, going from two mains to four. I plan on topping the four mains one more time to get to eight and will likely stop there. Both plants watered with 6.3pH water + 1/2 TSP of RECHARGE + 3 ml of CalMag Plus. They bounce back great from all this stress so I am thinking they can handle a bit of leave stripping from the bottom sites also. Gonna let the four mains grow for at least a week or so before topping agian.
Look at my last video and tell me if you would top the new mains again above the (4) new nodes or if I should wait and LST the entire branches downwards to let the new nodes come up. Ultimately I want to attempt a main line so I am thinking of topping them again.
If you want to mainline you need to top them aorund the 3 or 4th note and let them grow out. then top both of them again equally on each side while keeping the new growth pinned down to the ground via LST. Other things to note is stripping out the extra growth between your first node you topped to the medium and the next 4-6 node after that first node so they have some distance between the two apex growth sites. Think of it like a highway to two different cities, they need room to expand and turn into the metropolitan bud sites they can be. If they are two close they clash and space becomes to tight. The whole purpose is to create two main paints off of one root system. If one side of the plant is large or has more apex growth sites it will be larger in the end and may take away from the other side. they need to maintain the same height for the first bit as growth hormones in plant go to the tallest bits.
In my blue cindy diary I did something like mainlining with a SCROG and it turned out really well. lots of topping and made a kick ass canopy.
Not 100% mainlining but close.
Good Luck!
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