Ase's Multi-Strain Quadlining In Coco

Ok we are kinda on the same page. I do agree that I probably made more out of it than I needed to but I had the plants out of the tent and I had the time. My reasoning for the agent in the mix was to help with any buildup to get removed. With all the aquarium supplies I have around here it wasn't that much work but the plants seemed to like it.

That's funny you are watching some of us around here. I really wish I had the time to quad these plants out but it just wasn't in the cards timing wise. Suckers are tall though. next time things should be more relaxed and I can play around a little bit more.
 
Ok we are kinda on the same page. I do agree that I probably made more out of it than I needed to but I had the plants out of the tent and I had the time. My reasoning for the agent in the mix was to help with any buildup to get removed. With all the aquarium supplies I have around here it wasn't that much work but the plants seemed to like it.

That's funny you are watching some of us around here. I really wish I had the time to quad these plants out but it just wasn't in the cards timing wise. Suckers are tall though. next time things should be more relaxed and I can play around a little bit more.

Yeah if you had the time and energy than you probably did it the "textbook" way. Nothing wrong with that at all.

To make things more funny I was looking at your pictures and thinking, I thought he was going to quadline his next round? Then I started thinking, I thought Sam was done journaling for a while and it seems like we are getting at least weekly updates ;). It's ok, I understand. It's a community and its hard not to share what is going on. If I stop I am going to have to go cold turkey from the whole website I think. I really like journaling.

Quad or no quad, your plants look great and I know you'll try quadlining at some point and really dig it.
 
Day 8 Flower Tent A - Day 58 Flower Tent B

Flower tent B is really beginning to sag. I need to get in there and support some of the main colas on the Critical Cheese in the back left. I'll get some of my soft tomato wire and hold up some of the sagging branches to the stronger ones. I did a trich check last night and no amber yet but lots of cloudy on all 4 of them. I still think the Tutankhamon will go a little longer and the Critical Cheese just a bit shorter. That also means I will begin flushing 3 out of the 4 of them tomorrow. The end is near and I am ready for some good results.
Flower Tent A is just now hitting stretch. It basically started yesterday and I should get about a 7-10 days of really good stretch. I have kept my lights lower than normal to see if I can keep the stretch in check a bit. Just seeing if it will make too much of a difference from where I normally have them. All in all they look pretty happy and you are beginning to see the shape of them starting.
 
Yeah if you had the time and energy than you probably did it the "textbook" way. Nothing wrong with that at all.

To make things more funny I was looking at your pictures and thinking, I thought he was going to quadline his next round? Then I started thinking, I thought Sam was done journaling for a while and it seems like we are getting at least weekly updates ;). It's ok, I understand. It's a community and its hard not to share what is going on. If I stop I am going to have to go cold turkey I think. I really like journaling.

Quad or no quad, your plants look great and I know you'll try quadlining at some point and really dig it.

I was going to stop with the updates thinking that the weather would change and I would be outside. LOL I am rarely inside when its warm out. I don't want to post pictures on others threads. Some of that is ok but most of what i see is not.
I do like journalling as well. My light schedule is 5am to 5pm so with my work schedule it's hard to get pictures.
 
Morning Ase, thanks for that... Thanks kindly for replying again, I'be seen everything you do and use nutrient and medium wise, and I can't get anything like that as my operation is a bit of an emergency op fast forwarded to this coming Thursday.

So this quad attempt if I am able to do it is more of a helpin healing therapeutic grow so if it goes ahead thank you kindly for any assistance you have to offer...

Thanking you kindly...

Smeegs....:thanks:
 
That is an interesting theory. Scares me a little though being in a winter environment where the temps are consistent.

I'm working it out in my head how to get 76-80 in the night temps. With no drop in temp at night should have little to no spike in RH. Then should this be true have less stretch and tighter, denser and shorter plants.
 
I'm working it out in my head how to get 76-80 in the night temps. With no drop in temp at night should have little to no spike in RH. Then should this be true have less stretch and tighter, denser and shorter plants.
Check out newty's grows. She keeps them low. Other than quadlining them i am not real sure how she manages to keep them like that. I top, tie the suckers down and super crop but mine seem to naturally be medium sized plants. I do run a 10-12 degree swing between lights on and off.
 
Yeah if you had the time and energy than you probably did it the "textbook" way. Nothing wrong with that at all.

To make things more funny I was looking at your pictures and thinking, I thought he was going to quadline his next round? Then I started thinking, I thought Sam was done journaling for a while and it seems like we are getting at least weekly updates ;). It's ok, I understand. It's a community and its hard not to share what is going on. If I stop I am going to have to go cold turkey from the whole website I think. I really like journaling.

Quad or no quad, your plants look great and I know you'll try quadlining at some point and really dig it.
Im loving it. Definitely like how neat its keeping my plants.
 
Day 32 Veg Tent A - Day 38 Flower Tent B

I think I have figured out my problems with my computer and the new part comes in the mail this week. I’m old school and I do a lot of things on it. I don’t know how you guys just did the app or phone thing before the new forums update but I have to have a computer.

First off the girlfriend is killing it right now. All of them have hairs just starting to pop out. She’s going to have one of the best first grows I’ve ever seen.

Next my veg girls have started to boom a bit. They aren’t at what I would call aggressive veg phase but they are close. It was time for another training session and defoliation though.

So I started with the Purple Envy which looked just a bit off. One of her 4 quadrants wasn’t growing so well and when I took a look I found the problem. She had grown so much and I had her pinned down so tight that one of the 2 top quadline branches was hanging on by a thread and had basically torn itself off. I had two choices. Mend it up and let it regrow (but likely more stunted than the other 3) or go with a tri-line. So I went for the tri line. I did this with an Auto seed once and it was pretty cool. Remember my theory on guiding energy so this shouldn’t hurt my yield with it happeneing so early on. Not an ideal finding but probably the best time for it to happen.

The Super Iced Grapefruit looks fantastic. It was perfectly even on all four sides. I used it as my example photo on how I do this part of the quadline training. First at node one you have two even branches coming out the top. I defoliate both of the big fan leaves that come out of there. At node two I also did this. With the quadline method the branches are not even at node 2. One is on top and one is on bottom of the big support branch. The one on bottom just never makes it to the canopy. I always end up chopping it off. This is my first time doing it this way but I chopped that branch off right now instead of waiting. So node two now only has one branch and it’s on top ready to go. Node 3 I didn’t do anything too and they will be both even branches again. In a few days I will pin them down just after node 3 and let true whole thing grow vertical until they are ready to flip. I’ll still defoliate and adjust things during that time but nothing too major.

White Rhino small and compact but about at the same node growth as the other 3. I think I remember my original one starting out slow too and really kicking it up in aggressive veg phase so it’ll be fun to see if she does too.

Lastly the Chemdawg. Wouldn’t even be able to tell she had a slow start anymore. Will be cloning this for sure.

I basically haven’t touched the flower tent in a week. Just letting them run their course. I’ll try to be more detailed on my next update on the individual girls.


I’ve done some sampling of my latest harvest and my head is spinning. All of them are really good. Best quality to date. I’m really looking forward to the finish of the flower tent. I think I’ve finally nailed it if I can get a clean finish.
My girls are at about the stage your veg girls are in this post so it would be a good time for me to strip them then, sweet.
Checklist
No.1 - strip the love gang.
 
Haha Newty here fashionably late as always:)

I keep mine shorter with #HST. Also, Id say I do a half-fluxed quad on most of mine...basically I tie them down harder than Ase but not as hard and long as a true flux;) #newtysmicroquads

I have a really small space and I love lots of plants so I train them girls hard! I can't grow big trees in my space but now I know I can if I want to, just ask Dank and Dabbie! :D

That's a really beautiful plant @JustMeds
 
It must be the quad then although some of ase's have gotten quite tall. I am going to do it next time.

A few reasons why some of mine got so tall.

1) Genetics - sometimes you just cant help it and you get a plant that does whatever it wants. Purple Kush was a good example. Blue Dream also a good example.
2) Lights - There have been a couple grows where I didn't really adjust my lights much to get them closer. I think they stretched too much because of that. In my current flower tent B I wish the plants were just a tad shorter but I can't really adjust the lights much in that tent. They are the Epistar 160s from Mars Hydro and they are really meant for a 3'x4' area not a 4'x4'. In this tent I have to keep the lights up towards the very top to get good coverage.
3) Training - A couple times lately when I have flipped my plants its usually from just getting back from a vacation where I didn't touch them for a week or longer. They had already started to harden and I knew that if I tried to train more I'd risk breaking limbs off and just let them go instead.
 
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