How may times did you top or fim this beauty through veg? And the training of the branches is really cool!! Shit symmetrical lmao My friend trains by using rope to tie the stem down, which is then taped to the plastic pot. My friend just keeps adjusting the rope to carefully pull the branches down to encourage horizontal growth; thus, better light coverage. What else can he do to improve and get his plant lookin like yours? lol I know nutes, ph, tds, ec, lights, etc have to be on point, but as far as training is concerned plz give some pointers/advice thanks
Hi, thanks for your comments. I have been documenting this in my current grow journal, the link should be in my signature. I sprouted her from seed in mid September so she's about 6.5 months old in the pic.
This girl was topped as soon as the forth node was big enough to 'micro top' which was when the 4th node was about 2cm-3cm long. That was the single only cut I ever made to the plant. From there I trained her in a Quadlined fashion, so that way I was able to train her out horizontally until she went into stretch mode when I allowed her to go vertical.
However for my stealth needs, she was beginning to go higher than my balcony rails and potentially start waving to the neighbors, so I then supercropped her and gave her several followup supercroppings in the following weeks. If you supercrop you will find some supercropped branches stay and grow in place and others try to re-assert their desired vertical growth.
So the final bit of training I performed was to LST, using plastic coated garden wire to hold/fix the desired position of the supercropped branches until early budding flowers started to develop, at that point I ceased to do any further training as everything was pretty much in place - as you see in the pic. It might sound daunting but really it is not, Quadlining if you are careful is not difficult, and supercropping is similar, LST is just using garden to tie the branches to assist the 'shape' you want. One other thing is on my plastic pots I drill lots of holes around the rim specifically to use as tie points for Quadlining and LST. I hope this is of some help.
Hi, thanks for your comments. I have been documenting this in my current grow journal, the link should be in my signature. I sprouted her from seed in mid September so she's about 6.5 months old in the pic.
This girl was topped as soon as the forth node was big enough to 'micro top' which was when the 4th node was about 2cm-3cm long. That was the single only cut I ever made to the plant. From there I trained her in a Quadlined fashion, so that way I was able to train her out horizontally until she went into stretch mode when I allowed her to go vertical.
However for my stealth needs, she was beginning to go higher than my balcony rails and potentially start waving to the neighbors, so I then supercropped her and gave her several followup supercroppings in the following weeks. If you supercrop you will find some supercropped branches stay and grow in place and others try to re-assert their desired vertical growth.
So the final bit of training I performed was to LST, using plastic coated garden wire to hold/fix the desired position of the supercropped branches until early budding flowers started to develop, at that point I ceased to do any further training as everything was pretty much in place - as you see in the pic. It might sound daunting but really it is not, Quadlining if you are careful is not difficult, and supercropping is similar, LST is just using garden to tie the branches to assist the 'shape' you want. One other thing is on my plastic pots I drill lots of holes around the rim specifically to use as tie points for Quadlining and LST. I hope this is of some help.
