When growing indoors plant training may just be the most important aspect of increasing yield and quality of your buds. There are many diffrent techniques including LST, topping/fiming,super cropping,lollypoping ECT. This thread is for mainlining/manifolding. I'd suggest getting comfortable with LST and topping before attempting this.

***Step 1. Wait till your plants are at the 3-5 nodes I like to wait until I get 2 full sets of leafs. Even though you have 5 nodes cut her down at the 3rd so she's thicker and stronger.

***Step 2. Take the two nodes and tie them down to make the T shape to make your sturdy base for the frame to come.
[Tip: When mainlining symmetry is everything. Try and keep both sides equal and even as much as possible.]

***Step 3. After to have trained the two main stalks out around 6-8 inches from the main stem let them start to grow upward. At this point you can decide to let her grow out or top both mains again and repeat the process. Remember every time to do this you multiply your main colas.
Tip. Personally for autos I top the two mains twice more to get 8 large colas. This method dosent increase overall yield. It gives you massive colas instead of a bunch of little to mid size colas.

In conclusion top your plant at the 3rd node when you reach 5 nodes and tie down the new mains into a T shape. Then keep tieing them down while letting them recover and reach upward toward the light. Once your around 6-8 inches away from the main stem let them grow verticly and repeat the process as many times as desired while cutting off lower growth focusing the plants energy upward toward the new mains. And remember Symmetry is everything. The one photo with the X's shows where to cut the lower and undesired growth off.
Any other questions feel free to ask I will answer.
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Just a quick update. As previously mentioned, I'm going to go with only 4 mains. I topped again this morning and this is what I came up with. I'm using pipe cleaners to anchor the large fan leaves to the binder clips and then using a small piece of loosely wrapped pipe cleaner to secure the new growth to the stems of those fan leaves. I've only done this with the third node so far. It's kind of hard to tell from the photos. Anyway, I think this is going to work out just fine. I'm looking forward to not having to do extensive LST from here on.
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i have tried my hands on Mainling this is my 2nd grow ever and day 48 just it has just started to flower (fastbuds gorilla glue auto)
its my first attempt so the mainlining is a little shabby but the plant is turning into a monster compared to the other 2 that i am growing (fastbuds BB auto) (although the other 2 are well into flower and this one has just started showing pistils but is growing by the day)
what da yull think?
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I was looking at the photos of my topping this morning and noticed that I snipped a little bit off of a newly unfolding leaf (seen in the circle in the attached image) ..I've never really looked into FIMming but does this qualify?
 

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I was looking at the photos of my topping this morning and noticed that I snipped a little bit off of a newly unfolding leave (seen in the circle in the attached image) ..I've never really looked into FIMming but does this qualify?
Nope, dont look like you took much off:shrug:
 
Do you trim off the ancillary branches?
 

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