Mainling vs topping vs fimming vs scrog

hi
a very general question and I'm sure everyone has their different ways, but I'll welcome any advice from more experienced trainers.
for years i just pinched the plants and let them do their own thing, until I switched to RDWC and in lockdown I had enough time on my hands to experiment with mainlining/manifolding. I really enjoy the process and have had some great looking plants that are easy to harvest with zero popcorn, only downside is recovery time and extended veg time.
During this painful year of learning RDWC, (previously flood and drain), I've never had the best roots always fighting some root issues, so yields not been great and was about to throw the towel in. I think I've finally nailed it down to the quality of my water (now RO and UV filter) temps too high and choice to nutes.
So moving forward with my next crop i want to get it right, what are peoples thoughts? Is mainlining worth it? should i just top once? or FIM? Scrog seems very complicated though i have got a net set up just to hold up the girls when they get top heavy.
I have a 15 pot system each plant is 2ft between them and plenty of room to grow up tall

thanks in advance

I tie them over in early veg then let them grow Untouched/unhindered, when it's time to flip i bend the arms down level and put a net over them.

3-4th week of flower clear the lower growth.

There's a few of my posts with the basic process if you're interested I'll link them.

I start mainlining few years ago and im stick to it. I also go mainline scrog version, i dont se any complicated things in scrog.

My thoughts, that this is the best for canopy.

thanks @Star Dog i'll check out your thread, did you top them at all?

thanks @buggzl
actually after posting this I watched a video on scrog and realised thats basically what i do LOL. mainline or in my case manifold as they are clones and then bend them flat through the net.

skanamax13 said:

thanks @Star Dog i'll check out your thread, did you top them at all?

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No bud I don't top them or anything else I only tie them over, like you said there's recovery time, recovery time wouldn't a problem if were giving me something better but I get the same end product with a fraction of the work involved.


Eta... There's some experimental fimming in the above link.

Thanks @Star Dog tempted to do this, just about to pull my girls out and put in new clones, I've saved them and new roots appearing, but dont believe they'll fully recover. So a nice short veg will suit