Ase's Multi-Strain Quadlining In Coco

[Asesino85]

Checking out you quads here. I'm moving on to fine tuning my skills now. I'll be starting from the beginning playing catchup! Cheers! LadyG

Thanks LadyG and welcome. So many good examples of quadlining on these forums now. I’ve really enjoyed seeing the minor differences everyone does with it. I was always nervous someone would try it and absolutely hate it. A couple years now of teaching it and so far seems like most everyone has enjoyed doing it, so that’s good. Will you be doing one soon?

 

[SamSmith]

So now that I have watched you quadline most of your grows and now you did a scrog what are your pro's and con's of both methods? You (no pun intended) Aced both methods.

To me I see it as making things more complicated if you are growing different strains which you didn't but that would yeild me way too much product of one strain. I already give away half of what I have been growing. Access to some areas of the plants looks like it might be problematic.

 

[LadyGaea]

Thanks LadyG and welcome. So many good examples of quadlining on these forums now. I’ve really enjoyed seeing the minor differences everyone does with it. I was always nervous someone would try it and absolutely hate it. A couple years now of teaching it and so far seems like most everyone has enjoyed doing it, so that’s good. Will you be doing one soon?

Yes. My next grow . I'll be starting some new plants in about a month and I want to incorporate some training. Doubt I could ever hate a growing style, lol. I love seeing what these plants are capable of.

 

[Asesino85]

Yes. My next grow . I'll be starting some new plants in about a month and I want to incorporate some training. Doubt I could ever hate a growing style, lol. I love seeing what these plants are capable of.

I’m the same way. I have ran into a few people who were openly against quadlining on these forums. They never tried it though so I guess I never really payed too much attention to the haters. If someone tried it and hated it, I’d put way more merit into that. When you start your quadliners, make sure to drop a link to your journal or just let us know you are starting. I try to follow everyone who is quadlining a plant in case they need some immediate help.

 

[LadyGaea]

I’m the same way. I have ran into a few people who were openly against quadlining on these forums. They never tried it though so I guess I never really payed too much attention to the haters. If someone tried it and hated it, I’d put way more merit into that. When you start your quadliners, make sure to drop a link to your journal or just let us know you are starting. I try to follow everyone who is quadlining a plant in case they need some immediate help.

Thanks Ase! Will do! I appreciate that!

 

[Asesino85]

So now that I have watched you quadline most of your grows and now you did a scrog what are your pro's and con's of both methods? You (no pun intended) Aced both methods.

To me I see it as making things more complicated if you are growing different strains which you didn't but that would yeild me way too much product of one strain. I already give away half of what I have been growing. Access to some areas of the plants looks like it might be problematic.

Well, I don’t think you were around yet for my first couple grows. The first one I did 5 Aurora Indica plants in soil with what I thought was a scrog. Really it was a support net. 2nd grow I did a real scrog and it went really well. It was also with 4 different strains. I decided there had to be a better way to get the same results without the net and came up with quadlining.

The advantages quadlining brings to the table is that you can still move the plants around as they aren’t grown into a net. It’s easier to water the plants if you don’t do automated watering. It’s way better for multi-strain grows as every strain stretches differently. You can adjust ties to be tighter but it’s really hard to adjust a net of that size to be tight. Not to mention that the plants grow into the net then you risk snapping things by trying to adjust the net in any way.

I don’t think I have any scrog pros over my method. It makes sense though as I came up with the method to still get scrog results without a screen. Maybe it’s slightly less labor intensive to scrog but I enjoy training time with my plants because each one is different. My yields were similar each way so I knew I wasn’t losing yield doing quadlining. I only did this scrog to change things up and it was at a request from some people on this forum who remembered my first scrog. I’ve had a blast doing it but it’s reaffirmed why I like quadlining so much. I can see other people trying it and loving it but its good to have that reaffirmation for myself. I can’t wait to get back into the full swing of quadlining again. Likely won’t see that net ever again.

You’re right on the fact that I’ll have a ton of ATF. I haven’t done edibles and things for a while but I’ll likely use a chunk of it for things like that. There will likely be a period where I only have ATF to smoke on. I’ll likely buy wax as there is a shop I know of that somehow sells wax for dirt cheap. It’s almost so cheap that it’s not advantageous for me to press my own so that’ll get me through until the next multistrains are ready.

 

[newty]

I might need some of that ATF oil when I visit next!

That little guy is the amnesia and It's a slow grower and supposedly smaller than the other hybrids. I will give her some extra tic I'm hopes that she will catch up.

Thanks for taking a look.

My Amnesia Trance is the smallest and slowest of mine but she's coming along now

I have not done a proper inside scrog but I have done a simple DIY outdoor scrog. I don't think I would ever choose to scrog over quading or mainlining inside after experiencing it. I love that it holds everything in place but I do not like the lack of movement you have once they are really grown into 1 or two scrog layers. I was able to spread my geegee across the entire 3x3 no scrog needed due to quad/mainline training. Its more work but if I need to take a plant out to deal with bugs or toxicity (reset) I would be limited. Its hard to believe but they hold their own weight and if they don't, get some yo yo's and silica

Just my thoughts

 

[flashmp3]

How are the ATFs friend? They should be close now. Am I wrong?

 

[Asesino85]

How are the ATFs friend? They should be close now. Am I wrong?

ATF comes down tonight! I’ve been on vacation but forgot to mention and just got into town last night. Was way too tired to do anything but after work today it’ll be a full day in the grow area. Also planning to switch and transplant the multistrains and get an update done!

 

[flashmp3]

ATF comes down tonight! I’ve been on vacation but forgot to mention and just got into town last night. Was way too tired to do anything but after work today it’ll be a full day in the grow area. Also planning to switch and transplant the multistrains and get an update done!

Wonderful! I felt they were begging you for harvest haha. I harvest the first green crack this morning. Was a pleasure to trim but next time no more unwanted stretch!

 

[Asesino85]

Day 92 Flower Tent ATF (Harvest Day!) - Day 42 Flower ATF Clones and Panama

Since I already know that trimming and replanting the Multistrains will take me into the wee hours of the night, I decided to knock out the update first. My life has been chaotic and now it should be normalizing so I hope I can provide more frequent updates. It's also really hard to get pictures of the scrog girls so they've looked the same for the last month and that gets old to me. After 13 weeks they will get chopped tonight. I won't get better picutres than these because as soon as I chop them they will just flop over. They stretched like crazy and were a blast to grow but I am so excited to see the clones. These colas got funky and that was partly due to heat stress. Overall they look like they produced a ton and it's so frosty and smelly. I am so excited to smoke it and want to thank @Van Stank for giving me the opportunity to grow these. This won't be the last time you will see Stank Genetics in my lineup. In fact I am going to try to keep some in rotation as often as possible.

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• Asesino85
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• Asesino85
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• Asesino85
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• Asesino85
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The Clones and the Panama look so good. Such a difference from about a week ago when I left for my vacation. I am incredibly excited for these now. They haven't had any issues and look so good.

The clone I had to bend the tops because they were too close to the lights. ATFs stretch like the Blue Dreams from HSO do so if you grow them, leave a ton of space. They will look funky but will produce very well

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• Asesino85
• Oct 1, 2018

Panama looking really good for being in a small pot. She won't get a bigger one so this has turned into a fun experiment on what smaller pots can still give in coco.

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• Asesino85
• Oct 1, 2018

Still my favorite of the 3. Just a beautiful girl all around and I haven't had a plant like that for a while. Too bad she likely won't stay up on her own so will make for a tough camera shot but maybe I can get a good one for POTM next month of after. I think she will be worthy.

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• Asesino85
• Oct 1, 2018

The Multistrains will finally get a new home tonight and into the flower tent they go. I will be removing the racking and just having them on saucers. I haven't showcased them much because in a way I am a little ticked that my planning was so off with these. They've had to sit in these little pots for about a month too long so they're growth and health will be fun to watch improve once they get transplanted. Good thing I am in coco and can get them super healthy quick. The Durban Poison on the left is now way bigger than the other two. It's the one that started a week behind. Hopefully will have some room for training with only 3 in there.

Lastly, I'd like to thank the staff of 420 Magazine for the new title under the name. It was a complete surprise and I'm grateful for the acknowledgment. I'd also like to thank anyone who follows along and makes this journal what it is! I'm just always thrilled that I can give back to the same community that taught me everything I know.

 

[SamSmith]

Damn. That is a boat load of product there. Should be interesting on the final weight.

 

[Derbybud]

Congrats on the grow journal of the month. Well deserved.

 

[Itibitiguy]

Congrats ase
That's a mighty fine room you get to chop

 

[Dutchman1990]

Awesome job ase!!

Those are some frosty girls there!

 

[Asesino85]

Congrats on the grow journal of the month. Well deserved.

Thanks DB! It was never something I thought too much about winning since it's up to the 420 Magazine staff. Was a very nice surprise and write up by Teddy in their post about my journal.

 

[Van Stank]

Awesome job with that SCROG Ase! You knocked that grow out of the park brother.

 

[flashmp3]

Congrats on the harvest and the grow journal! Impressive job again!

 

[StoneOtter]

Grow journal of the month kudos Ase!

 

[Mr. Magoo]

Congratulations Ase! Can’t wait to see a big ol pile of ATF! And congratulations on the journal honor! I don’t know if I mentioned it here or in my journal, but a google search for training methods led me to this journal and to 420mag! So for me this journal led to meeting a bunch of great people and getting my grow to harvest successfully! Thanks for being a good teacher and for laying out a path for a bunch of us now. I’m high on the blue Dream right now in fact!!!Thanks for THAT! Lol