I am interested in your comment about Bubba’s not being a good candidate for further mainlines / manifolds because of its bushiness.
I have not topped the second set of branches off the two mains yet on the plant pictured. I have been waiting for the growth points at their first node to develop more. I now see the cause of the delay. The branches are starting the alternate growth pattern already. I am surprised by this early appearance. I would expect the opposite pattern to have continued. It makes this learning process more interesting.
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@beardless how many mains are you going for? 8? 16?.. I’m close to starting 2 more manifolds on some amnesia lemon seedlings. They barely have 5 nodes so a little while longer. Realistically, as soon as you can cut the unneeded growth shoots, the better. That way they don’t waste energy on them. Unless your taking clones like I did…I let them grow a bit first.
Bushy or not bushy… you can manage a manifold on anything… you can manifold other species of plants as well… it gains same benifits as cannabis… do you know of the actual benifits thr manifold technique gives the plant? Let’s see if your doing this for the right reasons as well as satisfying … not testing you but without looking it up why do you manifold
From my understanding, the manifold style of growing more evenly distributes nutrients due to the fact that all the tops are the same distance from the trunk. Maintaining the manifold I believe is the key to better success by removing lower growth, and concentrating the nutes to the main colas instead. So in turn, you get 8,16,32… mains that get “evenly fed” and create bigger colas, and makes it easier for the plant to transport nutes. Also you end up with less shaded areas and better airflow under the canopy.
Your doing it for the right reasons… but also another bonus of even distribution of light and nutes in turn allows for the plant to finish faster!. A natural plant next to it will take another half a week to a week to hit same maturity if you continue manifolding leave one untrained same strain… same mother preferably… so you can get a good data read from same Gene’s I’d be interested to see it…I noticed it a lil but after consecutive grows not a side by side
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Well the clones are still looking pretty good. Keep finding these little grains on the stems of the leaves/branches.
I haven’t seen any bugs, no knats. Nothin. I started spraying them with sns203 after noticing it, but it doesn’t seem to help.
Watered WW2 Clone#2 3 gallons nutes: S. Grow A 16ml, S. Grow B 16ml, B-52 8ml, per gallon. Also removed some lower shoots and removed some leaves.
And the whole family of White Widows:
BK Clones still looking alive
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It will have eight mains. I was finally able to top it the third time yesterday. This is my journal on the this Let’s Grow Some Purple Kush
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Set to watching. 
Fed WW2 Clone 4 did some select stem crushing to try evening the canopy a little, as well as trim select lower growth shoots:
Also fed WW2 Clone 1 and trimmed lower growth:
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The start of spring, and the warmer weather caused the basement temp to rise a little, but caused the humidity to go up quite a bit. During winter I was able to use the air as a buffer to lower the humidity in the tents. So I decided to move my exhaust fan outside the tents, took the filter off, hooked it in with a y fitting between the 2 4x4 tents, also closed the vent for the 2nd tent and hooked a hose from the top of the drying tent, to the bottom of the second tent. So now the fan pulls fairly equal from both veg tents, and getting better airflow through the drying tent. Always a new challenge.
@Randy_Marsh those are Supercrop knuckles 
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Very thick indeed
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I don’t hear that enough 
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Lmao… I have opposite problem
-.- lol
Clones dont bush up as much as seeds as you can see… good to leave more leaves on clones untill your bout to flip
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These pics are after removing a bunch. These things grow back leaves in no time, virtually no light getting to under the canopy. Ill take a pic tomorrow of the others, and the last time I took the leaves. Crazy how packed they get.
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Untill flower there is not much benifit to leaf removal if you must go for it bemut leaves dont block bud sites… till theres bud sites… until then LEAF em ALONE 
I’m jk you know what your doing… do a side by side next time… leave more leaves during training and do your normal way see if theres any speed up … do by clone of same mom
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