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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Say you have 4 main branches(manifold) Are you planning to cut off all the secondary branches so you end up with 4 big buds?
My suggestion is, if you do have secondary branches, keep them. LST with the proper tying up will make them grow as extra colas. More buds of medium size provide a bigger yield than a huge cola and perhaps more potent since they enjoy more light than they would normally have.
 
will only keep the8 branches that manage to get half decent lights reaching them
currently i can see 5 to 7 tops beaming towards the light and each of thier 2nd nodes popping up a pic attached (from yesterday)
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So, my plan for the next tie down is to do the same thing that I did with the first and that is to tie the new chutes down to their adjoining fan leaf.
I'm going to give it another day or two and let them grow out a bit ..as tempted as I am to start coaxing them a bit.
 

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Goldmine, mainlined.

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KO. Kush quadlined
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Iced grapefruit mainlined
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3 photos, 2 in 10 gall 1 in 3 gal. Lights flipped to 12/12 on 09/5 stretch just coming.
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Another 2 weeks and it'll be time to do some cleaning.
 
Can I safely remove the two largest and lowermost fan leaves?
 

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I'm not quite sure that I follow. Re-tie which other 4 what? Fan leaves?
Cut the fan leaves and re tie your 4 mains.
Check out " dubxxl " on YouTube, he has a 5 part series on it.
 
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So, I pulled the two largest fan leaves and I retied the four mains. (I also watched all five parts of dubxxl's vids) ..Since I'm only going for these four mains, does that mean that I just let each of them grow upwards from here? Also, it looks like I have a fifth main happening. One of the four chutes has another coming off of it. I won't be able to grab a photo until tomorrow.
 

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