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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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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Do you actually for the fan leaves off? Looks like the nodes are pretty bare.
 
Found one for a little over $50 Amazon product

Liquagens stealth one is around the same price. But it comes with the flush kit and everything you need to hook it up. Other ones usually don't and leak like crazy. I was gonna buy the RO buddy until I looked at the reviews and after I priced the flush kit and everything it was pretty much the same price but not put together.
 
Do you actually for the fan leaves off? Looks like the nodes are pretty bare.
Fan leafs aren't needed indoors. They are food stores for unknown factors outside. But I don't cut them off always. Depends on the strain and if they are restricting air moment through the plant or stopping light from penetrating the canopy. But I almost always cut them off during flowering. Mainling and manifolding is used to get better quality big fat giant buds not more of a overall yield. It's tricky with autos and I don't reccomend it for everyone. At least not until you've gotten comfortable with LST and topping techniques. And definatly only after you have a good feel for the strain and know what she can and can't handle. My mainlined buds go for big money for people who like to show off and have to best. You really want some mega buds do it on a photoperiod. But I still get half oz dry buds from autos I mainline.
 
But I still get half oz dry buds from autos I mainline.
Do you mean a 1/2 lb. or 1/2 oz. ? A 1/2 oz. wouldn't be worth all that trouble. Not when I get 4 - 6 oz. just topping & LST a little.
I only remove everything from about 12" down & about 50% of the Fan Leaves from the upper portion. I usually Top twice & tie back a few branches to allow light penetration & that's it. Same nutes you guys are using only I use Piranha & Sensi CalMag + also.
How big is your grow space & what kind of lighting do you use? I noticed a huge difference in yield when I got rid of my 2 - 600 watt Meizhi LED's & bought 2 - Advanced Platinum P 900's. My yield went from 2 - 2.5 oz. per plant to 5.5 - 6 oz. per plant. Now I'm convinced you have to have good lights to get a good yield. That was in Fox Farms Soil & 3 gallon pots. Now I'm trying Coco & Perlite for the 1st time in 5 gallon cloth pots so we'll see how that does.
 
No not 1/2 oz total. Lol. I'm saying the colas themselfs after dried and cured weigh around 1/2 a piece. I average around 4-5 oz dry weight per plant depending on strain. And my main grow tent 8x4 but I have two others that i run as well a 4x4 and 2x4. Yea good lighting makes a huge diffrence in yield and potency. I have a bunch lights I use that I change throughout the grow. My main light is my Bloombeast 900a but I also have a 2 hipergero 450s, 4 galaxyhydro 300s, 2 roleadro 450watt cobs and a 600watt roleadro. My bloombeast is on the product reviews along with a white crack strain review I did that I mainlined. It's the one with the 2 giant colas in my hands. I also have a bunch more on there as well. I like my white and green lights for veg and my blue and red lights for flower.
For your coco grow I'd reccomend 3 gallon fabric pots 5 are overkill. I stoped using them bc they take to long to dry out and I didn't see any diffrence between 3 and 5 gallon. If anything the 3 gallons where better.
 
Now that sounds more like it !!! I seen the Green Crack Pics .... Nice, I need to try that strain. You sound like me with all the tents & lights. You upgraded a lot also I'm guessing.
I've been selling off most of my old stuff lately & only keeping a small Seedling / Clone Tent & my 5' x 10' tent. Just not enough room to keep holding on to it all. I've read some good reviews on the Bloombeast lights. I'm wanting to add a 3rd P900 or a KIND XL1000 for my next grow.... hopefully I can swing it.
Too late to switch to 3 gal. pots. Started seeds in the 5 gal. on the 1st & all have sprouted so I'll leave them alone for this grow. I'm kind of having fun with the grow I just started because it's 6 different Auto's, 2 photo's & a Re-Veg photo Big Bud all at the same time in the same tent. The photo's & Re-Veg should fill the tent when they go into flower after an 8 - 10 week Veg waiting for the Auto's to finish. Probably end up Topping 4 - 5 times. Those would be great to do the manifold thing on.
Got me wondering if these 6.6 gal. Auto Pots I've been buying are going to be too big. I bought 1 of the 2 pot systems so far but was planning to get 2 more sets of 2 soon. Was planning a 6 pot Auto-Pot grow for next time also. Already bought a 45L per hour pump & Air Domes for the ones I have. Just trying different things to see what I like & what kind of yields I get.
 
Damn, feel like I joined another Jeep club. Just Empty Every Wallet lol
 
Liquagens stealth one is around the same price. But it comes with the flush kit and everything you need to hook it up. Other ones usually don't and leak like crazy. I was gonna buy the RO buddy until I looked at the reviews and after I priced the flush kit and everything it was pretty much the same price but not put together.
You have a link to the one you're referring? My search brought up this. A little off for my budget.https://liquagen.com/products/6-000-stealth-gpd-ro-di-water-filtration-system
 

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