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What Training Methods After Getting Experience

EG6

EG6

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Hello fellow growers. I'm on 4th grow and am trying to nail down the training method I'll use for the long-term. I'm looking for answers from experienced growers about the method you settled on after trying different methods. Do people mainline/manifold over the long-term or do the eventually settle on something else?

Most of my knowledge (other than the hard, hard lessons learned), comes from growweedeasy.com and cocoforcannabis.com. I've been watching the videos at blackdogled.com and am intrigued. They use the Schwazz method and the quality and yields seem impressive. Schwazz is basically topping 7-10 times to get a flat canopy, lollipopping with extensive defoliation on day 0 and 21 of flower. I've been manifolding up to now with some defoliation but not extreme.

For me, unless someone can change my mind, the decision is between Schwazz with topping at the 4th or 5th node starting after 6 nodes or mainline with defoliation (anxiously waiting for Nebula's current side-by-side). Put another way, either top like crazy (7 to 10 times) or manifold. Both will have extreme defolation on about day 0 and 21 of flower.

My focus is on growing weed that tastes good and makes me happy. I suspect that when I've done all my testing and read your answers, I'll eventually settle on simple LST and topping a few times but I have to do all the experimentation and ask the questions before I'll settle for that.

Thanks in advance.

Here's toking at you...

3x3x 7 tent
HLG 650R LED (630 watts) (It's too big for tent but at about 500 watts, the plants are very happy and there's light everywhere)

Side Note: I'm in Ontario Canada and I needed a heater in the basement tent in the winter so consider that before you think that less heat from LEDs is super important. I thought I'd do most of my growing in the winter but it seems summer may be less expensive.
 
The only two methods I employ, pictured with end results.
Organic soil auto grower.
 

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Those plants are impressive, especially for autos. Very creative on the last pic. Looks like a holiday tree but I don't know what holiday
 
I used this method last grow. It worked great, only have to top in 3 places. Just started my 3rd grow, will be doing it again. I can't argue with a pound per plant.
 
Love it about all the training methods. I know i could get heftier harvest if i used more aggressive techniques. I do topping, LST then tie them down an pinch a few more branches an that's mostly it. I later do lollypoping on my outdoor big gals an indoor on most photoperiod. My autos just top an LST tie down their branches.
 

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I've settled on a variation of the "quad line". I top above the 3rd node and remove the 1st, keeping 4 "branches". I then top each of those 4 above the 3rd node and remove the 2nd node branches, resulting in 4 main branches with 4 sub branches each...16 total. i keep a 4-5 week veg time and flip to 12/12 as soon as possible. goal is 16 equal sized colas with a shortish plant. i use a lot of LST and defoliate all along to keep things open and exposed to light.
 

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I really meet the best people on GWE. It's my place to connect with other awesome people who are done experimenting with drugs and have graduated to terp sauce (type concentrates.) Of course, there's nothing wrong with smoking. Smoking mariguana is our roots.
 
That's very, very interesting. It's a little bit of many of the methods. I may have have to give it a try. Thanks!

Thanks to Bu2b and everyone who contributed. I feel comfortable with my new direction and have babies just about ready for 1st topping.
 
At this point, I'm firmly committed to mainlinine, as this method has consistently produced massive buds on plants. Gotta be careful not to top too many times on shorter growers, though...
 
My stems are so strong I just bend them over every day exposing the middle. Top once at the 5th node or so. Some time fimming. Last time a screwed up fimming, so I got three main stalks and two minor ones in the race too.
 
Has no one settled on SOG [Sea of Green]? I am considering giving it a try. Growing many small plants, topping once but otherwise letting them grow untrained, seems like it would be much less work than all the fiddly training for these other methods.

Yields are supposed to be about the same per sq. ft. I haven't tried this yet. Given how little plant training I have done and how much work it was, I'd like to minimize any further engagement in that task! SOG seems like the least-effort way to get a good grow with good yields.

Faster turnover is a bonus. It seems like a good way to go, especially if growing from clones which is the obvious choice for a long-term growing strategy.

I hope someone who is using SOG will chime in.
 
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