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8/8/23 - Two Rainbow Chip clones arrived today - transplanted into 1 gallon fabric pots - sitting 20" below my 300W light set to a little over 25%. PPFD about 250-300. Fed full dose of recharge and plain pH'd 6.6 water. Hoping they perk up within the next 48 hours.
8/11/23 - Both perked up as expected. Topped pretty low since they were so lanky, supercropped (first attempt anyway) the new main to try and get a symmetrical canopy. Was going to bend and LST but I want the new mainline portion to get a bit bigger before I start to bend them down. Both plants given 6.5 pH'd plain water since the soil was dry. They are thirsty. Left my lights at the same height but I added about 10% to my power level bringing me around 35% to keep the PPFD reading in the 280 range.
8/14/23 - Bouncing back nicely after an aggressive topping. Starting to see 'Y' shape as I try to mainline both plants for a semi-even canopy. Watered with 6.4 pH'd water mixing in 3ml of CalMag Plus + 1/2 tsp Recharge. Tomorrow they will be 1 week old in their 1 gallon pots.
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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