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Granny420
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Well, today I will begin my mini quad lining! I am at Day 21 for the 8 Fat Bastards that are shooting out their 5th nodes, so they are ready. The Day 21 Blueberry Cheese is also shooting out her 5th node but she will only get topped today because I want the lowest branches to grow for clones off of her.
I am a complete newbie to the quad method, so I hope I do this right.
As far as I can tell, the first steps of quadlining is to:
1. Cut off all the bottom 2 nodes of true leaves and any shoots on them. And of course, the single leaf that originally begins the plant, but it really is not included in the quad method as a node.
2. Top the plant above the 4th node.
This leaves two nodes leaves and shoots to grow. These will be LST trained after their first shoots grow out a bit, I will deal with reporting that as they grow.
I can do these two steps all at the same time, or trim the bottoms, leave a couple days to recoup and then top. I am choosing to do both at the same time.
Don’t know if this will be the true #quadsquad method, because I’m doing a mini version. My goal is to have at least 4 nice colas at the top (up to 8 max) when I flower them. However, with a true quad plants are vegged longer and can produce massive plants with a lot of top colas (gorgeous!). Some take up entire 3’x3’ or 4’x4’ tents!
For me, I’m using 3 gal pots when I transplant and because I am growing a number of plants, each will have to be controlled on how wide they get.
I will be back later today or tonight with pics of what I am doing and after my cleaning work is done for the day. I’m sure I will make my rounds of other’s journals during the many breaks my body will need. See you then!
I am a complete newbie to the quad method, so I hope I do this right.
As far as I can tell, the first steps of quadlining is to:
1. Cut off all the bottom 2 nodes of true leaves and any shoots on them. And of course, the single leaf that originally begins the plant, but it really is not included in the quad method as a node.
2. Top the plant above the 4th node.
This leaves two nodes leaves and shoots to grow. These will be LST trained after their first shoots grow out a bit, I will deal with reporting that as they grow.
I can do these two steps all at the same time, or trim the bottoms, leave a couple days to recoup and then top. I am choosing to do both at the same time.
Don’t know if this will be the true #quadsquad method, because I’m doing a mini version. My goal is to have at least 4 nice colas at the top (up to 8 max) when I flower them. However, with a true quad plants are vegged longer and can produce massive plants with a lot of top colas (gorgeous!). Some take up entire 3’x3’ or 4’x4’ tents!
For me, I’m using 3 gal pots when I transplant and because I am growing a number of plants, each will have to be controlled on how wide they get.
I will be back later today or tonight with pics of what I am doing and after my cleaning work is done for the day. I’m sure I will make my rounds of other’s journals during the many breaks my body will need. See you then!
Just how big a joints did you have rolled? 4 foot blunts??? 
You are so sweet!
I really felt like that was taking the best cola from the plant, hurting her. But after looking into the #quadsquad thread, the how to’s, the stages and the results, they hooked me! The plants in that thread make quadlining look like perfection! I just need to continue reading in there and following their advice. Some experts in there!p
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quad’ers and the #quadsquad pros have already helped me by making sure I know to leave as much above the topping node as possible. I had read that and did do that right.