I’m in flower on my first grow and thinking about what I want to do differently next time. One of the things I want to do is more intentional training, possibly mainlining.
Please share photos of your mainlining or other training that you’re proud of. I am thinking the equivalent of the bud shots thread, but for training. It’s an art, show it off!
There’s a great on-line ‘resource’ called GrowWeedEasy, I hung out there before I discovered Overgrow was back up and running.
The site has a crazy number of hyperlinked tutorials. If you haven’t seen it, pack a lunch, it’s a big‘bunny hole’…
I did the mainlining first and then the manifolding, mostly so I could understand the difference. Now I do sort of a ‘free style’ based on the plant’s responses.
I still go back there occasionally to check up on what’s new.
Yes! I’ve seen that site, and will spend more time there I’m sure between now and actually implementing anything. I added manifolding to the topic, I forgot the word for it and knew I was missing one!
That looks great! I think I really enjoy the symmetry, this is part of why I said it’s art. And everyone has their own hook/tie-down system, container size/etc. Thank you for kicking off the photos!
Yeah, I can appreciate it when somebody puts in the work to make it so symmetrical! My own efforts are dealing with so many plants that I can’t possibly keep up on them all, but getting a good underlying structure going early really helps, even if they get out of control as they grow.
I just tried out a "Bro Science’ experiment of reversing Yo-yo’s to hold branches down (had a bucketful going to waste). Feels like I’d need to modify the yoyo’s to have less tension if I wanted to do this regularly, snapped a few branches in the process.
I like that you’re continuing to experiment! I feel like your yo-yos trial might work if you could set a maximum retraction point. Like “don’t let it go past here, but don’t keep it under extra tension”, tying something onto it, or looping it around a zip tie or who knows.
It looks like I could just cut the metal spring little shorter and it would back off the tension…will have to find time to test it. Your idea would work too, but I want it to be as few ‘moving parts’ as possible so that I really do it! Once it becomes complicated I tend to find excuses to put it off.