Quadlining

[WizardsNThings]

These are huuuuge! Those are 3 gallon pots? I'm just start 2 autos that are supposed to be done in 8 weeks: Black Cream and Lemon Haze OG. I'm starting seedlings for my garden so I figured I might as well throw some quick autos in there. Have you done the quadlining on a plant with such a short grow? I expect it to go longer, but just curious. From other responses, it sounds like you always do. I usually just LST autos and mainline photos, but maybe I'll try GL on one of these..

 

[Doubledealing72]

Not sure how I missed this lol, sorry wizard!

First of all, thanks! I just took them down today! I can't wait to smoke them all!

I haven't quadlined a plant that finished in that time. I mainlined a Sweet Trainwreck that finished in 60 days, but have had other Sweet Trainwrecks that finished in 80 and were trained the same way and given the same nutes. I've found a plant finishes when it finishes, and it rarely finishes when the seed sites say it will lol. That could be because of the high stress training though.

I haven't grown Black Cream, but I have grown a few purple strains (Red Poison, Devil Cream, Bloody Skunk). They are gorgeous to grow, but I found all mine had airy nugs, didn't get ya as high, and I didn't care for the smell. However, I would still recommend growing a purple strain at least once. They're beautiful!

Yes, I use 3g pots. I'm curious to see how they would do in a 5g bucket. The roots on these are all wrapped around the edge of the pots.

Good luck on your grow! I'm just getting ready to post harvest pics of these girls!

 

[Doubledealing72]

Hey everyone, it was harvest day yesterday! I've focused on the Bubba Cheese and White Widow CBD on this grow, but I'll be including the Bubba Kush in this too. If you are reading my grow 7 journal, you will see more pics.

They all were ready at the same time, which worked out for me because I'm able to use my tent to dry them in.

This grow went very well, other than a few brown and yellow leaves. I'm estimating a little less than a lb, but wouldn't it be great if it was more? 😂

I've learned a lot from this website, and I hope this thread was helpful. This site is literally the reason I started growing, and the thing that eventually led me to quadlining my plants. If you do your research on this site, you will do just fine growing. Problems will come up, but this site probably has the answers.

Anyway, I'll post pics, and when they are dry I'll get the weight.

They both finished at day 83


Bubba Cheese

White Widow CBD

Bubba Kush (day 112)

Left to right: Bubba Cheese, Bubba Kush, White Widow CBD

There are 6 cubbies in the rack. Bubba Kush is taking up 3, White Widow CBD is taking up 1, and Bubba Cheese has 2. The Bubba Cheese has the most dense nugs I've ever grown. The smell in my house is wonderful right now lol
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[Doubledealing72]

Hello everyone! My harvest is finally dry, and here's the weight:

Bubba Cheese - 178g (6.35 oz)
White Widow CBD - 118g (4.21 oz)
Bubba Kush 205.2g (7.32 oz)

Total weight for the grow is 501.2g, or 17.9 oz.

Remind me again how autos don't yield that much? 😂

I'm very happy with this number. This grow was under 220w of light For 112 days. Cost in electricity, which is mainly my only cost because Megacrop's nutes are so cheap, was $136. This means that each oz cost me $7.60. Throw in nutes and the cost of the seed and coco, it can probably be rounded up to a solid $8/ oz.

I love growing lol.

Have a great weekend everyone




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[Drekthar]

That's a pretty good haul for 3 autos. Good job
I am following your lead, i've gone and ordered the 4 cobs from cobshop.
SHould be ok to replace my current lights with the new cobs right away you think? I probably have 4 weeks remaining to finish this crop.

 

[Doubledealing72]

Congrats on ordering the cobs! I replaced my blurple light with cobs midgrow and it didn't seem to change anything. They just started growing better lol. Just make sure they are far enough away from the plants. Generally 18-24"

 

[Eigholte]

This is my Royal Medic. I think she may be around 3 weeks away from harvest or so. I'll pop in to indicate how she did with the Quadline training - but I'm impressed. This one plant has mostly filled a 3' by 1.5' tent, on her own. Normally, I have two plants in there, but she didn't leave any room for a friend! (Also, I failed at cloning this go around, so maybe it's for the best that she's a beefy plant)

I also enjoy the COB talk. I bought all the equipment to build myself a set of 4x55W COB lights, 2 in 5000k and 2 in 4000k (3500 was out of stock, sadly). I need to get a move on and start building that, as I think light is my limiting factor right now. This Royal Medic is really only getting any density in the top 6" of the plant. It would be nice to see what happens when I at least double the light intensity (add 2 COBs) or even triple it (add 4 COBs)

 

[Doubledealing72]

Very nice eigholte! That is an impressive stem! Glad to hear you're joining the cob arena! I'm glad I did!

 

[PhantomSulker]

Well here we grow, I did the last major work I plan to do to them last night and have them all straight again. Thanks for the tutorial I look forward to trying on a auto real soon. But my Gelato and Strawberry Banana's are looking pretty good. Any suggestions I am going to give them a few days to recover and get them ready to flower this is week 8 of veg for them.

 

[Spidermite]

Nice looking plants guys.

 

[Doubledealing72]

You're plants are looking really good phantom! I see you are a bit more aggressive on the defoliation than I am, but that's not a bad thing! They are probably going to look like monsters after the stretch, so you will have a good harvest I think. Great job man!

 

[Doubledealing72]

Thanks Spidermite! You have some good looking ones yourself!

 

[PhantomSulker]

Thanks, I have had a lot of time to let them veg, I have a feeling they are going to get huge I was trying to time stuff to go in the flower tent in cycles but everything is going to be ready soon for flower and no way do I have enough room. But I will figure it out, thanks again for the tutorial. I look forward to trying on a Auto. I have some G13 Auto seeds coming and going to run all 5 at once when most of what I have going is done and will quad a few of them.

 

[PhantomSulker]

mcubed476 I have a question, after I did the major defloration on 4/10 I left them to veg for another week and then flipped them to 12/12 on this past Sunday. They are growing leaves on leaves on leaves again. I was going to wait till Sunday to deflower them again and do some heavy LST to get them under control. These photos were from Wednesday. So guess what would you do with these where they are and they have had 2 days more to grow and just been tucking leaves back mostly.

 

[Doubledealing72]

Your plants are looking pretty good for the most part, but the newer growth on top seems to be getting pretty pale. If it were me, I would up the nutes a little bit.

But that's not the question you asked me lol. If they were my plants, I would probably take some of the bigger fan leaves off, especially in places where they are sitting on each other.

 

[Eigholte]

Quadlined RQS Royal Medic was chopped today. Final yield numbers to follow, but here's a visual breakdown of the plant structure.

Total weight: 680g 100%

Rootball (that I could dig out): 35g 5.0%
Stems, not attached to buds: 134g 19.7%
Fan leaves: 152g 22.3%

Trimmed flower and attached stems: 150g 22.0%
Trim for tincture making: 209g 30.7%

 

[Doubledealing72]

Congratulations Eigholte! Your plant had great structure in terms of quadlining! Looking forward to hearing your final numbers!

 

[WizardsNThings]

Went to quadline this when it was younger but it was missed the leaf on the other side. Decided to go for it anyways and ended up with a 'triline' ha. Three main branches, now each with 4 pairs so I should get 12 mains. This is going outside in a few weeks. Hopefully it gets huuuuuuge!

 

[rcsaw]

thanks mcubed, something new to try. cant wait to see the buds

 

[Doubledealing72]

Ahh, the triline lol. I've had a couple, but they still turned out good! My last triline yielded 6oz, so not too shabby for an auto lol

Your plant looks good!