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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@E Grower I saw somewhere that if you top it too close, when the nub swells it will most likely split.
 
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.
They do use quite a bit of water but that's the price ya pay for 100% pure water at 0 ppm. And I used my well water and was plauqed by nutrient lockout from Solid buildups right around transition to flower. Plus you will have the best tasting product in the end.
 
Here's my latest mistake with mainlining. Too much pressure trying to keep them tied down. Just have some patience.

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Yea you gotta leave a bit when topping and give her time to knuckle up. Also you gotta train a little at a time and try to do it when she's green and bendy before she turns solid. I snap them all the time by over training and then overnight they break.
 
Yea you gotta leave a bit when topping and give her time to knuckle up. Also you gotta train a little at a time and try to do it when she's green and bendy before she turns solid. I snap them all the time by over training and then overnight they break.
How do you fixem when they break?
 
How do you fixem when they break?
Ive snapped them off at half before and still had the plant produce 5 oz dry weight. My white crack on the strain reviews was a accidental topping. She had 6 nodes and I snapped her off at the 1st node by accident and decided to mainline her and it was one of my biggest harvests to date. Goes to show you never know how a plants gonna respond to stress. Some don't respond well and slow right down while others it triggers a growth response and goes crazy. And there's really no way of telling how their gonna respond.
 
Very good info buddy! Only on my second grow, Been reading up different training techniques and trying topping for the first time. Wont be trying manifolding just yet but you explained everything i wanted to know!

I have one generic question if you guys are able to answer at all, which is how do you guys get such nice thick stems lol?? Some of the pictures on here dont seem like the plants are very matured and the stems are absolutely massive!
 
Sooo- First grow I have 5 auto's. Thinking I'd like to try some lst and mainline. Maybe leave 1 to grow "normal"(?) 1 is the largest, have 2 about the same, another 2 that I started a bit later but are smaller. The big one should be at 5 full nodes by Fri. The others will follow soon after. Going by color etc, they all seem healthy. Any suggestions as to which I might want to do what to? I'm no snowflake looking for someone to blame if things don't go the way I would like.
 
Sooo- First grow I have 5 auto's. Thinking I'd like to try some lst and mainline. Maybe leave 1 to grow "normal"(?) 1 is the largest, have 2 about the same, another 2 that I started a bit later but are smaller. The big one should be at 5 full nodes by Fri. The others will follow soon after. Going by color etc, they all seem healthy. Any suggestions as to which I might want to do what to? I'm no snowflake looking for someone to blame if things don't go the way I would like.
What strains?
 

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