This past week has consisted of training everything flat with soft plant ties and topping for the 2nd and final time. With this plant, I am doing something a little different than a manifold. I topped but instead of only leaving 1 set of branches and stripping everything else I have left 2 sets of branches. Other than that the manifold technique will still be used and when I topped the 2nd time I topped to the 3rd node of each branch and stripped off the 3nd node. Doing it this way you wind up with 16 main colas. I'm curious as to how this will affect the plant's growth compared to a regular manifold. So far it seems like this one has slowed down a bit in growth since the 1st topping compared to the gorilla zkittles. I'm not sure if that is due to the different training or something else. It would make sense that having left more branches the overall growth of each branch might be a bit slower than a standard manifold that can just focus on 2 branches. She fell to #2 for vigor and growth amongst the 4 strains. after the gorilla skittlez took off after being topped. Have also stopped adding calmag as I don't think they really need it anymore and Mega Crop provides a decent amount of calmag, to begin with.