Vegging techniques for max yield

vtim802 said:

so what do i do specifically to these two plants? fim all the tops?

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don't cut anything else off!

continue to LST until you flip to flower.

sure you can flip to flower now if you want.

a healthy plant will double in size roughly during flower.

Im definitely not cutting any more branches off.

I fimmed a top on each plant so i can see what it does. this is my first grow so i wanted a little bit of experimentation, but i am not cutting or fimming anything else.

going to go stress free for one more week and flip at day 70

Those pots look pretty big enough imo, sometimes bigger pots arent better and i prefer shorter wet/dry cycles and more control over ferts.

Just an idea

vtim802 said:

I so far have done some LST and also kinda manifolded the plants too (mainline). I really dont even think i did it right because my stem system doesnt look like some of the other pics ive seen here.

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I have mentioned it in one of my last threads and I am sure a lot of guys here are aware of it The most important apart from lights and plant food is to get your stems as thick as possible before flowering. If they are thin and flimsy your plant won't grow anything big on it. I believe it knows where to grow a big bud and where only small go do.

I simply noticed it harvesting my plants. The biggest buds were always sitting on thicker stems. How to get them thick has come from observation too.
I have got big stems on branches that were broken by me (pinched and bent) for a scrog. When plants were recovering these stems they grew extra layers on these stems making them thicker and stronger.

Another place where stems grew bigger and produced more buds were a branch that I moved far away from a main stem to get it under my net. It grew with a huge resistance to go back to its place and it made its stem quite fat. It is to a point that a stem was about 50cm tall and was covered in buds almost 80% of its length.

So I guess with manifolding that you have done already you are going to get bigger stems than without applying this technique. It may be harder to achieve with scroggs because it is not always involving damaging a stem. With manifolding you tie them down and they are trying to resist it and go back forcing a plant to make tied stems thicker.

They are small for so long in veg.
I would be tempted to leave them be and allow them to kick off a bit growth wise rather than tweak things and slow them down.
Let them grow and bend them to your will the day before flip.