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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@Tyler_Durden88

Here's my first mainling & manifolding attempt. How does it look?

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@Tyler_Durden88

Here's my first mainling & manifolding attempt. How does it look?

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Looks great. What I've been doing is leaving 4 branches to have more tops since autos don't give ya alot of time. But I do it with 2 as well depends on strain. Your doing great. Here's one I got going now that I let go a bit.
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I have the 100$ one.
Thanks for the link. After going through all their stuff I ended up getting the dual purpose ro and drinking water 6 banger. So much for my budget. I'll prolly save money in the long run by not having to buy bottled drinking water as well as the purified for the spoiled brats.
 
So what's the deal here with the water ? Asking because I'm growing in 70% Coco 30% Perlite. So far been using tap water with Advanced Nutrients Coco Products & CalMag ph'd to 5.8. Grow is 11 days today. So is tap water not going to work ?
 
So what's the deal here with the water ? Asking because I'm growing in 70% Coco 30% Perlite. So far been using tap water with Advanced Nutrients Coco Products & CalMag ph'd to 5.8. Grow is 11 days today. So is tap water not going to work ?
In my case, I have well water that flunked the county health dept. I put a canister filter on the rv but the water still isn't right. I have to use bottled water for drinking and I was buying purified water for the plants.Putting the ro system on assures me the water is safe for me and the plants and saves me from all the bottled water costs. And I'm not putting a gazzilion plastic bottles into the land fill.
If I'm correct, others use the ro water so they can be more accurate with measuring nutes. Ro systems basically strip the water of everything.
 
Yes, but RO systems use a lot of water from what I've heard. I was told you use about 5 gallons of water in order to get 1 gallon of RO water. My dad owned a Heating, Air & plumbing co. & that's what he said. That was probably 10 years ago so maybe it's not that way any more. I never had any problems using my tap water in soil; but I know soil acts as a buffer. I hope it works in Coco. pH right out the Tap is usually 6.8 - 7.2 . I still lower it to 5.8 though.
Maybe I'm just worried about growing in Coco too much because it's my 1st time. I've heard of some folks having a lot of trouble growing in Coco & I don't want to be a statistic....LOL.
 
Yes, but RO systems use a lot of water from what I've heard. I was told you use about 5 gallons of water in order to get 1 gallon of RO water. My dad owned a Heating, Air & plumbing co. & that's what he said. That was probably 10 years ago so maybe it's not that way any more. I never had any problems using my tap water in soil; but I know soil acts as a buffer. I hope it works in Coco. pH right out the Tap is usually 6.8 - 7.2 . I still lower it to 5.8 though.
Maybe I'm just worried about growing in Coco too much because it's my 1st time. I've heard of some folks having a lot of trouble growing in Coco & I don't want to be a statistic....LOL.
Growing in coco is extremely easy. I’ve used my hard tap water for years and for the most part no problems. I Just put an RO system in because I’m gonna be going automated and I know my hard water will give me issues. Ph is extremely important in coco just make sure u ph every feed.
 
I've heard of some folks having a lot of trouble growing in Coco & I don't want to be a statistic....LOL.[/QUOTE said:
Some people have trouble matching their socks
 
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I suppose if you pay for your water, waste could be a consideration. I'm pretty sure my "waste" will end up back in the well or one of these underground rivers.
 
Here's my latest mistake with mainlining. Too much pressure trying to keep them tied down. Just have some patience.

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