Issue #69 - Sunday, August 11, 2013 Dear Fellow Grower, In today's issue...
- Discover how "main-lining" your plants during the vegetative stage will give you bigger yields with a flatter canopy...
- Get all the tools you need for main-lining (it's pretty much free)!
- See an amazingly fat cola in a trophy pic from on of our readers!
Happy Growing!
Nebula Haze & Sirius Fourside (founders of GrowWeedEasy.com)
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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― Galileo
How Does "Main-Lining" Increase Yields?
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"Main-Lining" 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. (What supplies do I need to start main-lining?)
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See that main-lined cannabis 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 very little extra effort. No more larfy popcorn buds stealing energy away from the main colas! Sirius: larfy(adj): leafy, sometimes underdeveloped weed that grows at the bottom of a cannabis plant.
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 Your Cannabis Plants
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Bigger Yields - With the exact same setup
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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
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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 cannabis 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 on the main trunk.
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. The complete tutorial (100% free, no catches) and all the examples should get you started, and I encourage you to adapt this technique to suit your own setup and growing style.
Continue to the FREE complete main-lining tutorial!
About Nugbuckets
"I really believe it is just a matter of time before a whole lot of growers world wide will be main-lining....it is a f*cking game-changer!" Nugbuckets: "....I started growing in a closet. It was a 32" x 32" x 48" (tall). I was determined not to outgrow my space..... I would grow 4 plants in 3 gal. nursery pots under a single 400 watt HPS......I learned very quickly that if I wanted to end up with something smokable, I had to learn bonsai techniques in a hurry to manage my plant heights......
I started in with LST (low stress training), and managed a very, very modest harvest my first few attempts.......as each run progressed, I would find myself getting really anal about properly managing my 32" x32" canopy where i would jam up to 48 colas in my tiny space, and strive to make the canopy as flat as possible......
......... i began to reap some pretty respectable harvests.......of course i would be topping the main, and spreading out the footprint of each plant, but my finished colas were not very consistent overall as far as size and weight were concerned.....and i would still end up with a fair amount of "larfy" popcorn bud from the understory, which was undesirable for me because i, and my newly found patients, were primarily flower smokers........so i dug deeper........and soon found myself in a slightly larger grow space, in a completely legal situation, allowing me to openly work on my developing theories.........
........my next grow i topped the main, and left two nodes off the main trunk, built my bonzai type structure, managed my canopy really well, but still noticed a huge difference in the energy output of the colas originating from the upper and lower node, even though they were separated by a mere inch on the trunk.....they were similar, but still varied quite a bit.......i did however end up with a decent canopy, and harvest.....i was getting closer...... .....then it hit me, that single inch on the trunk separating the two nodes was the key.....so my next grow, i decided to build the entire structure off of a single node...." ....Main-Lining was born..... 100% Medically Compliant
Striving to grow the most beneficial medicine possible...
Who Runs This Newsletter?
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Nebula Haze:Marijuana has literally saved my life, and I'm dedicated to showing you how easy it can be to grow.
I have made it my mission to build growing resources to help both new and advanced growers get bigger, better yields with less time and money.
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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 is 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, perlite, or a different medium, we'll show you how easy it can be!"
What You Need To Start Main-Lining
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The simple canopy rings I use are made from a heavy duty tomato or peony cage commonly found in garden stores. I cut and bend the bottom to spec. You should modify your canopy ring as needed for your setup.
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When combined with soft ties, the hoop allows the grower to instantly modify the footprint of the plant simply by sliding the stems along the perimeter of the ring. This can come in very handy, when "puzzle piecing" plants into a defined space!
Nebula's Main-Lining Strain Pick: BlackJack Why Did Nebula Pick Blackjack?
This highly medical strain by Nirvana is easy to grow, responds like a champ to main-lining, and produces a Jack Herer / Haze style buzz.
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This incredible cola was harvested by an amazing grower! See the entire plant pictured below!
From the Grower:
Strain is Blueberry Yum Yum, grown indoors from seed. The pic below shows the Blueberry Yum Yum just before harvest, after trimming off shade leaves. Note the Mountain Dew can for size reference, though it's hard to see, branches are so heavy it took a couple yards of Gumby wire just to keep them from breaking.
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This way my first time growing Blueberry Yum Yum. The seeds were donated, they were collected from dispensary meds from an unknown dispensary in Los Angeles. Soil: Sunshine #4 Cocos
in 5 gal. cloth pots
Environment: 4 x 8 grow tent in a blacked out room
Grow Lights:
Veg: 2 x Metal Halide @ 600 watt
Flower: 2 x HPS @ 1000 watt
Reflector: 2 x Radiant 6
Cooling: 6" exhaust through lights. 14000 BTU AC unit in the tent, both outside exhaust.Nutrients:
Full line-up from House and Garden (Coco A & B, Roots Excelurator, Algen Extract,
Bud XL)...
For this grow we used the House and Garden online nutrient calculator. Simply enter your flower time an it automatically generates a complete weekly nutrient list (which amounts to about half the strength the charts on the bottles say to use).
We mix nutes every other day in a 20 gal. tank, fed through a pump, manifold, water each plant through halos with 4 holes each. We feed till we get about a gal of runoff a day...
During the last 3 weeks we used House and Garden shooting powder (amazing), then 6-10 days of RO (Reverse Osmosis) water flush...
Harvest, rack dry, mason jars for cure! Remember, sharing is caring!
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