If you have the veg space and the schedule to fit an LST plant in I find they help me push out that extra zip or three, but if you try go for something nice and BIG they get so dense they become a hazard, and the amount of popcorn on a lot of LST plants is the big deal breaker for me. If you are dead certain you have a bean pole pheno it works better than other methods but it has to be beanpoley genetics or you don't get a bunch of big tops you get a bunch of healthy branches sure, but bud mass is a heart breaker and density can become a joke like two inches down the branch. Top once at most is what I say, more than that is kinda like a form of mental masturbation. Keeps you busy but serves no purpose.Have you main lined a plant before, and if so was the juice worth the squeeze? I've thought about trying this but I keep coming to the same (possibly wrong) conclusion; The benefits don't seem to outweigh the drawbacks. No doubt you will get a nice percentage of primo tops to harvest, but the extra time spent topping, training, topping, training adds a substantial amount on to the veg time. In my perpetual garden I think I end up further ahead just growing the plants out au naturale.
Disclaimer: I do not want to derail the thread or start an argument. Just curious.
What'd you do to it?Just got a bodi seed and it hermed on me!
Gorgeous Lucky Charms my man . Almost next near impossible to maintain symmetry of growth nodes especially from a clone. Once a plant grown directly from seed has reached maturity in vegetation it begins to lose its symmetry. A great visual tool if you do not have female pre flowers forming.Yield wise I can not really say since I have not done a side by side. Nor will I prob ever because it is a bitch to mainline a clone since they rarely stay in symmetry as far as branches. But the little mainlining I have done I liked, even if it wasn't the best strain for it, because it keeps everything symmetrical and clean looking. Not to mention the good support structure, and lack of larf on the bottom.
I will say that the best yield I pulled off the Space Bomb I was growing last year (smallest yields to date on a non 12/12fs plant) was the first time around when I mainlined it. pulled 2 zips per plant in a 5 gal. with a 45 day veg, mainlined for 8 tops, as opposed to 2 monsters I vegged for close to 3 months topped a zillion times in 7 gals. If you go for 8 there will prob be extra veg time, but I only went for 4 this time. FWIW though I will always be doing some type of training with atleast 1 topping, pretty rare a plant goes untopped in my garden.
I will post some pics of Lucky Charms in a few here when the lights kick on downstairs, she took to mainlining the best of all the plants this round. 4 nice top colas and a rigid support structure, although I will be putting a cage around her soon just in case. I am head over heels in love with this strain though tbh, dripping with resin, putting on weight better than the rest so far, and she reeks like cotton candy+skunk. Its hard to resist the urge to molest her buds every time I go in there just to get a whif lol.
That's unusual. Was it still in the plastic sleeve?Just got a bodi seed and it hermed on me!
I love me some ice hash but I hate the term bubble. Much prefer IWE. It's a big contributing factor to me growing.Well I finally made my bubble with my cheapo iPower bags, seems just as good as the stuff I see pictures of out there. Mixed for 15 minutes by hand in water I couldn't put my hand in it was so cold. Haven't weighed what I got yet, it's wet and super DUPER sticky.
Where is this guide you speak of, oh wise one!I love me some ice hash but I hate the term bubble. Much prefer IWE. It's a big contributing factor to me growing.
My latest batch just finished drying(kind of, going to let it go 1 more week). Mr. Mustache is right. It's all about taht 90u full melt. For some reason my grows never yield in the 73.
If you ever need help I have a guide written in full detail with pictures.
Make sure you break it apart very finely. I see lots of people drying it as a patty which will indefinitely go funky on you.
Go on over to the extracts. It's pretty easy to get into. It's even more enjoyable to select the quality of your end product. I usually do small runs in a bucket, hand stirring for 30 minutes each batch. I usually only use 3 to 4 bags, no reason unless you want more work and time draining to run with more.Where is this guide you speak of, oh wise one!
I'd really appreciate it. Tired of making BHO. (not for safety reasons; if you know what causes explosions and avoid those conditions it's not rocket science.) But the law doesn't look too kindly on it and I just don't need the risk.