Mainlining for colas? Or Low stressing it and letting it grow.

It depends on your situation, your strain, your space, your height. If you want to grow monster colas, get an indica heavy hybrid and trim for mainline of course you can clone all the cuttings for future babies. Or lst will get a similar result with slightly lower yield but I find its better suited for sativa dom hybrid.

My first grow I went with LST and defoliated in week 6 (excellent results from LST). I'm a big fan of LST and having done it until my plant was too mature to keep doing it, with good results, its my go to method this grow once my plant is tall enough (its only on Day 8 so too early yet). Topping is more time sensitive if you're growing an autoflower than LST is: LST you can start late in week 2 or in week 3 and do for a few weeks into flower, and its "no stress" training if done right. Topping or FIMing needs to be done in a smaller window of opportunity on an auto and unlike LST, the plant will not forgive you screwing up as cut stem is gone. Since topping is usually done with LST, I'd go with LST first and see what you can produce with it; the try topping the second time and compare yield.

Hello.. Hope you are well.. Personally i always grow 2 of the same strains in each tent at a time.. I usually lst my bk plant as its harder to reach wen everything is set up and have a play with sum hst on the front plant.. I tend to grow new strains each time so i like to try n figure out under the same conditions which training methods work better on them.. 🤔😁.. Stay safe n gud luck.. 👍🍀

LST will get you similar results, likley a week or two faster and less stress on plant. Plenty of reasons to mainline too. e.g. in a perpetual garden, the vege time rarely matters, unless it is extremely long. More about fitting a space by a date and you can easily err on one side of large and prune back. I LST a very horizontal branch to start. remove any nodes below the bend, as they will not get many resources after this. As soon as the roots can handle it, with an anchor to help support the stress. 14-21 days and most can handle it. Growth will be evened out, so it seems slower at first, but is is logrithimic in nature up to a point. Bend on a 45-degree angle to the alternating growth of nodes. This lets each side easily grow vertically unimpeded. Some auxiliary branches will get lost or overcrowded. When you notice (may want to wait and see to know what you are looking at), you can remove those and the plant can concentrate on relevant growth at all times. Areas with less density, i'll try to bend/shape or top to manipulate some auxiliary growth in that area. Only remove a leaf to help axuiliary growth avoid stretching. Intended plant size will need to be considered as far as how/when you implement this sort of pruning. If anything dominates, bend it down... usually dont have to tie it down before other growth catches up. tie a limb up to help it reach light faster. Height of node is a major factor in what share of resources it gets. plants react in predictable ways based on what you do to it... manipulate the hell out of it. As long as it's ~even when you flip to bloom, it'll remain that way. Minor bending needed at times. Can always bend back to where you want it after growth ceases.