The Quadsquad Thread: A Community For Quadlining

I don't have a heat problem, so throwing as many lumens as I can. I actually use the warmth in the winter to partially heat my house near my bedroom. In the summer, the light's in the cool basement. BTW, I'm in 10 gallon pots, GH nutes and Sunshine hydroponic mix(peat/perlite/buffer)

Well, you have heat sinks and you’ve done it before and been lucky. Long may your luck continue! Please, for this random stranger (I’m more of each than you might think) put a smoke alarm in the room? I’m worried you’re going to start a fire.

I'm trying quadlining. I've been blundering around the tent for a year now. I'm going to be honest with you, I've been pulling and snapping, splitting, overfeeding, over watering. And can't understand why they are all hermies.
As you can see, I was in such a good buzz about findingy not only the 420communitty. But this quadlining is the idea that I can't see in my head but I can see the plants leaning towards this training technique quite readily.
The mistake of forgetting to wait until I have potted the seedlings on first. Also the girls are going taller than looks good for trying to train. I've read of one guy who, after removing the first two nodes,he buries the plant up above the 2 nodes and creates a massive root ball. But I digress, I have to bury my seedlings under by half ,,,,cos they all showed up at a distant CFL. 6 inches long overnight. Wobbly..
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Looks good. Lower the light.
Have you started a journal? It’s a good way to get people involved. Put a link up in your signature so we can find it :)
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Well, you have heat sinks and you’ve done it before and been lucky. Long may your luck continue! Please, for this random stranger (I’m more of each than you might think) put a smoke alarm in the room? I’m worried you’re going to start a fire.
Is there a problem with fires and DE HPS on 1150 watts? This is new to me. I've been running SE 1000 W magnetic ballasts for years. Just bought a new DE digital unit and in my first bloom with it right now. BIG buds!
 
Is there a problem with fires and DE HPS on 1150 watts? !

Not especially, just my tuppence. You’re driving your electrical gear pretty hard. Maybe you’re an electrician IDK. I don’t trust it. Power surges and brownouts in my part of town make for unpredictables in performance too. And as my wife (bless her) is always pointing out - if a fire starts from a stealth garden here our insurance is void.
Smoke alarms are cheap.
 
Not especially, just my tuppence. You’re driving your electrical gear pretty hard. Maybe you’re an electrician IDK. I don’t trust it. Power surges and brownouts in my part of town make for unpredictables in performance too. And as my wife (bless her) is always pointing out - if a fire starts from a stealth garden here our insurance is void.
Smoke alarms are cheap.
I've never lived in a place without a smoke alarm regardless of what I'm up to! And I leave them in place when I move on.
 
I'm trying quadlining. I've been blundering around the tent for a year now. I'm going to be honest with you, I've been pulling and snapping, splitting, overfeeding, over watering. And can't understand why they are all hermies.
As you can see, I was in such a good buzz about findingy not only the 420communitty. But this quadlining is the idea that I can't see in my head but I can see the plants leaning towards this training technique quite readily.
The mistake of forgetting to wait until I have potted the seedlings on first. Also the girls are going taller than looks good for trying to train. I've read of one guy who, after removing the first two nodes,he buries the plant up above the 2 nodes and creates a massive root ball. But I digress, I have to bury my seedlings under by half ,,,,cos they all showed up at a distant CFL. 6 inches long overnight. Wobbly.. I've got them in 2gal smartpots , because I have them although I am not sure if I could do the football more good at this stage with solid pots? I've really got doubts about thier suitability for this training. It might end up in full rigging lol.
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This is today. I've repotted the 3 I've trimmed to train with luck. All the rest are regular seeds and a mixed indoor selection of indica dominant and fast flowering strains. Just don't know what? .
I'm happy with their progress so far
 
Well CRAP!
Crap crap crap crap crap!

One of my quadlined OG Kush autos went hermie on me. To make things worse, s/he popped at least one pod that I know of. Hopefully I caught it in time, and it didn't pollinate any of my other girls! And s/he was (is) the largest of the 3 quaded autos I have, and was doing so well. I'm gonna put it outside and let it finish up on the balcony (I might as well try to get some seeds and smoke from her - do hermies even produce seeds?). Gonna have to tie down the limbs a bit so they're not visible from the street.

S/he was doing so well until all this gender neutrality bullshit became so commonplace...


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Hey guys. just started doing some quadline white widows. I'm only on page 4 reading through but just want to ask if we should be topping the 4 mains or not? a lot of the pics look like they weren't.

I'm a little weird and last grow i let them go natural and it literally kept me up at night, how uneven everything was and just plain messy. I tried a mainline once and it turned out ok but it stretched like a mofo, didn't look like the nice short fat ones in a lot of the pic. really hoping it doesn't depend on strain and you guys have a trick to keep them that way lol.

looking forward to reading through the rest of the thread and eventually post some pics of what i have going on.
 
I'm not really competent in growing, yet, but no you only top the once. It's all about getting the 4 branches out to the edge of the final pot and trimming anything that's gonna be crowding. I'm quoting the main quadlining quadsquad now .
I think it is just easier to get the colas you want from a more suited strain and imagine that you can get any strain to 'PERFORM' and the art of achieving this is knowledge and experience. Same old. I've just started with bio growing after trying coco. I'm tempted to get my auto seeds in some coco and can afford it now I'm confident that I've read how to hand water coco-13 words. Dunno what yeah bed time probably dream of weed.
 
Hey guys. just started doing some quadline white widows. I'm only on page 4 reading through but just want to ask if we should be topping the 4 mains or not? a lot of the pics look like they weren't.

I'm a little weird and last grow i let them go natural and it literally kept me up at night, how uneven everything was and just plain messy. I tried a mainline once and it turned out ok but it stretched like a mofo, didn't look like the nice short fat ones in a lot of the pic. really hoping it doesn't depend on strain and you guys have a trick to keep them that way lol.

looking forward to reading through the rest of the thread and eventually post some pics of what i have going on.
generally no i dont think peeps are topping again after creating the Xquad.
but i guess nothing to stop you.
stretch and evenness will be strain dependent to some degree, if you check my last posts, the unkown strain i done hardly anything to, a few tie downs here and there to begin, but as soon as flipped and stretching she created a tabletop canopy all by herself, i believe it maybe be cherry pie..
the alaskan and bubble gum though are much more wild and while the main colas are of similar height, they arent nice and even and needed more attention lol
 
Top once after at least the 5th node down to and leaving the 4th. Strip the bottom 2 and pull the 2 nodes that you have left flat. This doesn't have to be done all at once. I see too many people try to do it all at once and end up with breaking limbs. Take a few days to get them flat. Let the center sprouts grow up and flip.
 
Keeping a short fat and symmetrical plant is done by consistent training and tying. If you allow it to grow vertical to much before flip you will get a lankier plant.

While I’m here I’ll drop a few photos from the Pheno hunt quads that are doing fantastic! Can’t wait to sample these ladies and find my winning Phenos for my mother selection!



















 
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