Issue #628 - Sunday, May 5, 2024 Greetings Fellow Grower, Today's issue is all about using free training techniques to magnify your yields! - Harness the power of main-lining to sculpt your cannabis plants into high-yielding works of art! Learn how to make every plant
grow 8 or 16 huge main buds!
- Learn how to use LST! Low stress training ("LST") is a must-have tool for every grower which can be used alone or with main-lining. LST gives you bigger yields with minimal effort by training plants to grow wide and flat!
- Learn other free ways to increase yields! Curious about other ways to craft the perfect cannabis canopy? Check out our treasure
trove of popular plant training articles!
- This week's trophy pics feature two young plants that are at the beginning of their own main-lining journey.
Nebula Haze & Sirius Fourside
Co-Founders, GrowWeedEasy.com
"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have." ~Maya Angelou
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“Main-Lining” Tutorial by Nugbuckets: Train Marijuana Plants for Bigger Yields & Flat Canopies by Nugbuckets (creator of this technique) – This tutorial was compiled and edited by Nebula Haze with permission from Nugbuckets.
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Introduction Main-lining is the act of training a cannabis plant to form a “hub” or “manifold” off a single node, creating a center for equal energy distribution from the roots to each cola. The "Manifold" at the Base Here's that plant at harvest…. Nothing but huge, dense buds! Hub: A place or thing that forms the effective center of an activity, region, or network. Manifold: A pipe or chamber branching into several openings, "the pipeline manifold" The result of main-lining marijuana is an even canopy and bigger yields with little extra effort. No more larfy popcorn buds stealing energy away from the main colas! Here's a few more marijuana main-lining pictures so you can see what I mean about the effortlessly even canopy. Main-lining is effective for increasing yields both indoors and
outdoors. Outdoors - Greater stealth & control Indoors - Easy flat canopies & bigger yields with the same grow lights Benefits of Main-Lining - Bigger Yields - With the exact same setup
- Set It and Forget It - After the initial training done during the very beginning of the plant's life, you don't need to do much else to get the benefits of main-lining
- Effortless Canopy Management - Colas tend to naturally grow to the
same height
- Fatter Colas - Each cola grows to a similar size and weight, simplifying the drying/curing process and producing fat, even colas
- No More Larfy Buds - No small, leafy "popcorn" buds to drain energy away from the main colas
- No More Uncontrollable Stretching - Because energy is distributed evenly among all colas, main-lining reduces the undesirable "stretch" of just some colas when plants first switch to the
flowering stage - this stretch often causes height/space problems for indoor growers.
- Indoors - More From Your Grow Lights - Get bigger yields from the same grow lights and setup
- Outdoors - Increased Control and Stealth - Gain greater control over the dimensions of your final plant (for better stealth and reduced chance of mold) and produce a more desirable and consistent final product
Here is a picture of Nugbuckets showing off the
fat, evenly shaped colas he produced from one plant using the main-lining technique. Main-Lining is just a concept about building a plant off a single node. You don't have to get everything perfect to reap huge benefits. Many growers do main-lining their own way, and still get the rewards as long as they build their hub / manifold off a single node. Main-Lining is an incredibly powerful way to gain complete control over your plants in small spaces, and also gives outdoor
growers the power to control the size and shape of their plants for more consistent yields. One of the best things about main-lining is that it's a "front-loaded" process. Most of the work happens right at the beginning of the plant's life, during the first few weeks. After that you mostly get to lay back and reap the benefits. Set Up Your Hub / Manifold In the Early Vegetative Stage
(take a few weeks at most, when starting from seed) Then just sit back and allow plants to grow into this naturally efficient shape. Bonus: The main-lining technique can be adapted to produce plants that fit in almost any space. As you're growing out young plants, simply pay attention to building thick stems from a single node on the trunk, (aim for a high VCSA - vascular cambium surface area) to evenly deliver nutrients from the roots to each of your colas. That's it. It doesn't
matter how a grower achieves this. This tutorial and all the examples should get you started, and I encourage you to adapt this technique to suit your own setup and growing style. What About Low Stress Training (LST)?Besides making a manifold, what other training techniques should you know? The #1 most important technique to understand for any home grower is called "LST" in the cannabis growing world. Low Stress Training or “LST” is like bonsai for cannabis plants. It’s the practice of gently bending stems and tying
them in place to drastically change the shape of the plant. This is done to create multiple bud sites, even out the canopy, and overall help you more efficiently use your grow light. Using LST can increase yields for free without changing your setup, and it’s also surprisingly fun. Example: All this bud is growing on a single 18" (45 cm) tall plant in a simple homemade grow box. LST is what forced the plant to
stay short and grow multiple colas. Note: “Cola” is a common nickname for the big main buds on a cannabis plant. “Cola” means tail in Spanish, and refers to how these buds look like a tail after being dried. At least compared to smaller buds which look like nugs or nuggets after drying. Low stress training can be used to grow marijuana plants in any size or shape. For example, this marijuana
plant is only a foot tall yet is engulfed in fat buds due to LST. Now take a look at the “guts” of that cannabis plant to see how this shape was achieved with LST. It was trained to grow in a spiral! 🌱 Explore More Plant Training TechniquesIf your curiosity has been piqued about plant training techniques, you can't miss this! We have put together a complete guide to training cannabis plants, including all the most common techniques growers use to increase their yields and bud quality. Check it out!
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📸 Trophy Pics of the Week
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I have here 2 Fruit Spirit plants I am currently doing my own training, which consists of a form of mainline/manifold/lst.
This is my second attempt, my first was an autoflowering strain a few years ago.. but these are photoperiod.
I switched them to 12-12 on Friday morning and they have stretched a little bit, but I believe they have a long way to go! ~John Your plants look great. This seems like you're getting the benefits of a manifold with fewer steps. I also made my own version of main-lining that saves some steps, though I took a slightly different approach. Thanks for sending
these in and sharing your experience! ~Nebula
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Nebula Haze: When I first started growing, I struggled. Now, it is my mission to make it easy for new growers to get started while helping advanced growers get bigger, better yields with less time and money. We update/add articles every week. Anyone and everyone can grow if they want to! Learn which seed sources are recommended by Nebula Haze Sirius Fourside: Sirius Fourside is a hobbyist grower who has gained the bulk of his experience growing in water as a medium (deep water culture, bubbleponics). "Growing
cannabis can be a relaxing hobby in and of itself, but it also saves you money and keeps you from having to deal with shady characters. Cannabis is much easier to grow than people give it credit for, and growing in water doesn't increase the difficulty much, if any. But whether you want to grow in water, coco, or a different medium, we'll show you how easy it can be!" Copyright (c) 2024 GrowWeedEasy.com NOTE: If links aren't working or if pictures are not showing up properly, please view the full newsletter here: http://archive.aweber.com/gwe-updates Disclaimer: Grow Weed Easy only recommends products that we've either personally checked out ourselves, or that come from people we know and trust. For doing so, we may receive a commission. Nothing in this e-mail should be considered personalized Financial, Legal, or Medical Advice. The contributors to this magazine grow legally under their local laws but are not lawyers or medical professionals. Any decision to grow
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