LSD-25 & Blackberry - 12:12 Flower

Welcome week 2, this week the Quadlining training begins with Topping and removing nodes. It is recommended to do these two steps with a little time in between, to let the plant recover a little. A recent experiment from another grower (at 420Mag) has shown, that doing both at the same day, seems to be better for the plant. So stress all at once and let her be. I will try that next time, makes sense. I was inspired by another grower from here called Basementganja to top one node earlier and only remove the first node (Quadlining you remove the first two nodes and top above the fourth node) He starts training his plants very early. I liked the idea of that, since I wanted to get as much of the training done in veg, as I could. Both my Autoflowers and in general can start flowering at any time and I needed their growth to train with. I'm using Biobizz Heaven to make them strong, in this case, I think they took to it too well and I had really thick stems which are harder to train. To recover from topping I also gave them a little of Biobizz Activera. Day 8/15 (Day Veg/Seed) switched positions for better lighting. checked if they need watering. will wait till tomorrow. on photo they look dry. mmh... no food. Day 10/17 TOPPED over 3rd node. watered 1l each with 1ml activera fish heaven Day 12/19 REMOVAL of node 1. watering? top soil still little wet. no watering. quadline started. top fan leaf broke off of blackberry. but not the shute. fingers crossed 🤞 Day 13/20 watering and more training. broke one bottom shute in blackberry. taped. Day 14/21 looking so so. stems really thick. hard to bend. Edit: I am writing this entry after I already went through half the grow. In this particular week, I made some horrible mistakes. So if you want to try this training, don't make the same mistakes. I trained my plants too hard, I used green wire and tomato hocks and I didn't leave enough room for them. So just because you can bend them all the way down, don't but see it as a gradual bending process, every day a little more.