Day 23 Update
Hey everybody!
Today's update is earlier than I would like. Normally I would wait until I had more growth on this auto but I feel I need to get it out here now.
So the basics again for quadlining are to have four main branches on your plant. In order to achieve this the plant needs to be topped down to node four. You don't top that fourth node, you top down to it. That will be the upper leg of the quadline.
Then you remove everything under the third node, The third node remains and it becomes your lower leg. So we now have two legs growing opposite of each other.
Each of those legs will now grow new nodes, as seen in earlier pictures by the pretty arrows I used. Thos are the new nodes that get trained.
So in the next two pics you will see the plant before defol and before the training. The second pic shows the pegs inserted into the soil for training.
The next pic is of the four main fan leaves now removed. You can clearly see how much smaller visually the plant looks. All the other leaves were left intact. Pegs have been placed into the soil for training.
Next pic shows you the plant being trained at node four. The arrows in yellow point to the nodes that are being trained. The blue arrows are the nodes at level three, which are not trained just yet. We are trying to get node four down level with three.
Two yellow and two blue are the four mainlegs that are the structure to the plant.
In the yellow circles on the next pic, you can see I made a small bend, like a j-hook, on my tickler, which is now anchored to the peg. As I push the peg into the soil, the node gets pulled down. You have to be gentle and can't pull to hard. If you snap it, grab some tape and tape it back together at the break.
Summary:
So as I said at the beginning, I have rushed through this stage in training. You'd like to have more length on your nodes before bending them down. My plant is stressed pretty good right now, as you can see in the droop. In a day or two she should bounce back and be her old self again.
We have been able to get our four main legs growing out, two top ones and two bottom ones. The next stage will be in about a week as I need her to get back to health.
It's NOT like it's taking up MUCH space now is it? Here is the other plant. Looking at it I think I might have left the second node on by mistake. I think I actually got a photo good enough that you can see what needs to be seen. Let's celebrate that picture...LOL But she didn't miss a beat and started growing again a day after topping and removing the lower nodes.
Especially with mr.Beez and yourself with the twin line....haha, I couldn't for the life of me figure out why you snipped those 2 nodes off other than cpl posts you said " I got this " ...haha