Skywalker Triploid

[Necromancer]

Was digging through my bag of beans and stumbled upon some old Mephisto horseshit. Some stressed Skywalker auto managed to pollinate itself and I had a few beans. I lost one, these two are what's left and one is a sweet triploid so we'll document and see what unfolds.

My blueberry will be in veg for a while so I got time to see where these go.

 

[WeedHopper]

Pulling up a chair my friend.

 

[Jan Borrego]

 

[Flower]

Brought an extra drink for you, Jan.

 

[Jan Borrego]

Ty

 

[greenmobster440]

I'm outta popcorn but I do have some edibles. This should be a fun show. I like watching old bean grows. New beans are fun too. Oh my..I'm melting like a snow bank in April...must be the edible. Best of luck on your grow.

 

[Necromancer]

The triploid is picking up steam

 

[Necromancer]

 

[Necromancer]

Topped them. The triploid's top was beginning to stagger so it got the boot to see what these 6 lowers feel like doing.

 

[Necromancer]

Seriously noticeable growth on the lowers since being topped a day ago.

 

[Necromancer]

I've heard/read triploids grow slow but with the extra branches, that doesn't seem to make sense.

 

[Necromancer]

These Skywalker do not like training so far. After transplant, I will begin tying them down. Cleaned up and bent them as best I could for now.

 

[Necromancer]

Transplanted into 1 gal pots, bent, and stripped. Still typical Mephisto wonkyness though and 3 finger leaves.

 

[Necromancer]

Clipped off the lower garbage on the triploid. The regular Skywalker is filling out.

 

[Necromancer]

All by their lonesome in the SF 2x3 prop tent.

 

[Necromancer]

Been needing to get her spread before transplant.

 

[Jan Borrego]

Can you give us a teaching moment and explain this method. I know it is a type of training. I pretty much want to learn everything I can. Thanks

 

[Necromancer]

Can you give us a teaching moment and explain this method. I know it is a type of training. I pretty much want to learn everything I can. Thanks

No problem. Basically it boils down to a form of manifolding or main-lining. Some people dislike the term main-lining so manifolding is used as well. I am doing this with my 4 blueberry in my other tent and there are variations to it. In a mainline, all tops are approximately the same distance from the main trunk. The plant is topped at a young age to help break apical dominance and create two tops where there was once only one. As the plant grows out a few more nodes, you can strip the branch and top it again. This time you have 4 tops, let it grow a bit more, top again, 8 tops and so on and so on.

But like I mentioned earlier, there a variations. I like 8 tops, but I also like 10-12 tops, so sometimes I let a few extra nodes grow out, or I lose entire side branch or I may want to do two pair of branches instead of just the traditional 1 pair to initiate the mainline. You can do it however you feel like and the more veg time you have, the more intricate you can be. Cannabis manifolding is the search term you want to start with to go more in depth. It is a fun way to grow but in soil it tends to go a little slower than if I were irrigating in a soilless media.

 

[Thomas81]

Pulling up a

 

[Necromancer]

This is how it starts. I like to wait until about 6 nodes and the plant is growing strong.

Then top down to the 2nd/3rd node or whatever you want. Clean up the other nodes and you only have the two chutes which now become your two tops.

Then you grow those two tops out laterally to begin forming your base.

Let it grow, top it again and you have your 8 tops here in a traditional mainline.

Once you reach this point you just kinda space out the tops and let it go. The shape of the plant allows for airflow and light penetration. It's just not a fast way to grow. You gotta have some patience.
If I am feeling fancy I will toss in a modified tomato cage for support and flip to flower when they hit the ring.