Mainlining or Topping? Hey everyone, my Frisian D...

i always forget which is which between mainlining and manifold.. the one that is less extreme is viable, but the other one people recommend some crazy shit to cut off all the foilage and then if you watch those grows it takes 2-3 extra weeks of vege than it would otherwise. So, not that one. LOL. Do what gets you to your goal with the least amount of wasted resources. It's good to have a target canopy - 'colas per sq ft' - make it virtually impossible to overcrowd that way and you can make a plant that wastes the least of your time and money. Divide that by number of plants, round up or whatever, and make it happen. ~3 colas per sq ft is usually enough to maximize yield. The only time i'd suggest more is for those tall, lanky plants that grow golf ball nugs well-spread out. Those plants need a bit more per sq ft to max out yield. let's say 'manifold' is the one i prefer of the 2 mentioned above (could be wrong, this is made up non-scientific vocab i just don't respect, lol). A comb of that with topping will do you good. Get everything leveled out before it even starts to grow vertically and makes the rest of the training easy as pie. Keep as many leaves as possible so as not to slow the plant down.

To get a fairly uniform structure then mainline but it's going to add some serious veg time onto your grow. If you have time on your hands and aren't bothered how long the grow will take then mainline.

Can't stop the top.

Mainlining is too much work and extends your veg cycle. Better yield between mainline and topping is subjective. I advocate for topping. How many leads you want to grow is your choice. 4 leads are easy to handle. Later on you can LST to fan 'em out a bit if they are crowded.

I’d suggest experimenting on 1 plant at a time so if you do something wrong you don’t do it to all your plants. I think if you have grown plants b4 you will have no prob figuring out how to top them

need a good amount of room to mainline. and topping is easier. But only one way to learn and thats to try it out.

Noch kannst du toppen ich mache das sobald 4 Triebe da sind und die Pflanze gesund ist. Du kannst ja wenn du willst bei meinen Tagebücher reinschauen dort habe ich bei allen außer einer Runtz getoppt und danach mainlining gemacht. Oder du schreibst mir ne DM wenn du mehr wissen willst.