Day 22 - starting this week off with fresh water, nutrients, adjustment in lights and controlling the PH back to 6.0. I am happy with the size and colour of the roots, the fan leaves have grown big and strong and the stems are looking healthy. Going to be topping plants at five nodes is the next couple of days.
Day 25 - topping day for the ladies and had some thinking to do - do we keep node 3 or node 4? Because of their height, decided to top at node 4 and keep node 3. That meant cleaning node 1 & 2. Light LST on Max because the stems of the axillary buds are already well developed.
Day 27 - In general, both ladies look healthy and happy. I have adjusted the light for Chong because the leaves show some signs of stress and rechecked the PH. Light LST twice a day to the mainline
Beautiful mainlining bro! Are you gonna have 8 true mains on Max and also leave those 8 "secondarys" in the center also? I normally like grow pretty much the same way but I leave only 4 "secondarys" after the second main-lining and this looks way more better/uniform! Will definitely try training like this the next time. Chong is also looking way strong for a cripple😊
@Budophile, I definitely understand and agree. A lot of energy is lost there. What I will try do is leave the main 8 going up, any others that start stretching I will try bend and use that space.
We can call is v2.0 for sure,
This is the first time I’m mainlining this way. I’ve done it the other way for years. But maybe this way allows more equally spread of everything…hopefully!
Yeah of course they'll take some energy from the "mains" but I dislike the conventional main-lining where you get 8 branches and the center gets left open if you don't tie some of the mains toward it. This way we'll get 8 nice big fat colas and with proper trimming of the lower nodes on the secondary shoots 8 decent sized colas as well and all the space gets used. Never have I seen a "tutorial" doing it this way so shall we call this method "Main-Lining v2.0"😊
@Budophile, thank you for such a nice compliment. Yes, there will be 8 main sites rising up. Trying to keep the plant from stretching too fast so the sites are closer, so they can fatten up nicely together! Let’s see what they look like in 5 weeks! I know that maybe the secondary will take energy from the plant. I’ve cleaned it before, willing to leave it this time.
Chong is trying, she has been through a lot but big ups to her for believing in herself😂