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Grower, In today's issue... - Learn how you can build a cannabis "manifold" to increase your yields
and grow bigger and fatter buds!
- Want to see manifolding in action? View a grow journal featuring a step-by-step example of building a manifold.
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Nebula's Manifold Tutorial by Nebula Haze |
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What is Main-Lining Cannabis?
The cannabis "main-lining" technique is the process of building a "manifold" on a cannabis seedling to form bigger buds (and overall increase yields) in the flowering stage. It was originally described by a talented marijuana grower named Nugbuckets who gave it the name main-lining. Main-lining vs Manifolding - They are exactly the same thing, just two words for building a cannabis manifold. I like to call it manifolding, but many growers use the word "main-lining" since that
is what Nugbuckets originally called this training technique.
However, the term main-lining can mean something unsavory, so I personally choose to use the term "manifolding" when describing the technique of making a manifold.
Not matter what it's called, we have been experimenting with his technique for
growing cannabis indoors for a few years now. We have altered the original manifolding process by Nugbuckets slightly. This saves a little time and gets to harvest sooner, but at its core the idea is the same.
A cannabis "manifold" is simply a plant where the main stem was split evenly in two when the plant was young. There is nothing magical about this technique. It's just a way to train the plant to
grow, and it works well for creating many big colas/bud sites without much effort.
To form the base of a "manifold," the main stem of a young cannabis plant is split in two
When the plant is split this way, it completely destroys the "apical dominance" or the tendency of the plant to focus mostly on its one main stem. With your plant's apical dominance broken, it tends to make
many long and thick buds sites (colas), instead of just one main one.
After the base of the manifold has been created, the grower uses it to create several huge bud sites on each side. As the cannabis plant grows out, this structure creates several evenly sized main "colas" (or main stems where buds form). This is opposed to a naturally grown marijuana plant, which will usually produce just one
main cola indoors.
Cannabis plants branch out heavily after being manifolded, making many main bud sites Indoors, the manifold technique can be used to dramatically increase your yields by giving you a "canopy" of fat buds. Here are two plants with a cannabis manifold grown out - there are many huge buds under
the grow lights instead of just one or two like with a standard cannabis plant.
When manifolded cannabis plants are allowed to get tall, they create very long thick colas Does manifolding work on short plants? A manifolded cannabis plant should be allowed to grow at least 2 feet tall for the manifold technique to be effective at increasing yields, but as long as
it's under a powerful grow light it works!
A manifolded plant also needs to be grown under a powerful grow light like MH/HPS bulbs or an LED grow light with 3W or greater sized chips. Unfortunately manifolding doesn't work well for
growing short plants growing under fluorescent or CFL grow lights, but that's what topping and/or fimming are made for!
This manifold tutorial gives you step-by-step instructions on the process of manifolding cannabis to get more buds and bigger yields! If you follow the steps and instructions exactly as written, it's almost impossible to mess up! Think of it like a recipe, but it's a recipe for plant training. Why build a manifold when growing cannabis indoors?
Bigger Yields! The main reason I use main-lining to build a cannabis manifold is because this training technique results in big yields from any indoor grow setup. By building a manifold in the early vegetative stage, you can get an extra 40% or more yields compared to not training your plants. I've used several other types of cannabis plant training techniques, and I believe main-lining cannabis is the most
straightforward way to get great results every time. It takes the best elements of all the other techniques, and combines them into one step-by-step process that's hard to mess up if you follow the instructions. No more guesswork!
Easier Than Other Training Methods - Because you can follow each step word-for-word, without having to make any judgment calls of your own, it's difficult to mess up!
In this manifold tutorial, the basic idea of main-lining cannabis is to simply cut the plant a few times in a certain way, over the course of a few weeks. Then you just arrange the buds where you want using twisty tie. Each of the colas tends to grow about the same height as each other, which makes it straightforward to get a "sea of colas" that are each thick and dense, without a lot of popcorn or larfy buds. There's nothing you have to do to make this technique work for you, or customize it to
your setup.
Less Time Spent Training - Since you just top the plant a few times and place buds, it really doesn't take much time to get plants to become a desirable shape with lots of colas indoors. Some training methods can create similar shapes and canopies, such as ScrOG (using a net), but training plants to weave through a net can take up to an hour a night during the intense process of
filling the net in the late vegetative stage. Conversely, manifolding only takes a few minutes for the first few weeks of veg, then basically no more training is needed besides holding up heavy colas late in the flowering stage.
Training is Over Early in the Plant's Life - Since all the training happens in the first few weeks of the plant's life, you're pretty much done with training early on.
Once I've finished my manifold, I know I'm past the "hard part" of training, and can spend the rest of my time focusing on caring for my plants, instead of getting frustrated about trying to control their shape.
Less Likely to Get Bud Rot or Mold - Manifolding cannabis builds a support structure for many colas that are thick and uniform, with less chance of getting bud rot or other types of
mold. When a cannabis plant grows naturally with one main cola, under very powerful grow lights the cola can get too thick and increase the risk of developing bud rot (when the inside of the buds simply start rotting away), or developing mold during the drying and curing process. While the manifolding method produces many big thick colas, the plant spreads the energy more evenly between them so none of the colas will get to the point where the grower simply can't maintain them
properly.
Less Time Spent Trimming - With only long, dense colas and no larfy small buds to trim, the process of trimming your buds after harvest goes by much faster than working on lots more smaller nugs. Your hands will thank you :)
Buds Dry More Evenly - Since all the buds are a
similar width and density, drying is a lot more straightforward. All the buds tend to be done drying at the same time.
Improved Appearance - While big and small buds are pretty much the same when it comes to potency, many growers prefer the appearance of large dense buds, which is what you'll produce on a manifolded plant.
What's the Difference Between the "Old" Way and the "New" Way?
You can build a cannabis manifold the "old way" (the way Nugbuckets did it) and split everything completely evenly like this:
In the original technique, each main stem is the same number of "steps" from the base of the plant, which helps the plant deliver resources more easily. But in order to achieve this perfectly
symmetrical shape a grower needs to cut and prune the plant 3 times, waiting a week or more in between each pruning session. That can add several weeks onto the cannabis vegetative stage because each time you prune, you're losing a lot of the growth built up by your plant.
Or... You can build a marijuana manifold the way Nebula does it in this manifold tutorial, which doesn't look quite as even and
symmetrical, but will get you identical results in less time, with less wasted growth! This process is not fundamentally different in any way; it is basically the same principle but modified slightly for improved results!
In our experiments the results are the same with a "modified" manifold, but you save time! Even when the plant isn't centered this manifold technique works perfectly; it works great in most setups and with just about any
plant! Note: There are four times when it is not a good idea to manifold your
cannabis:
Read the rest of the
tutorial with more information and pics!
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