Yankeegreen's Hashberry Mainline

Welcome RIU friends to my latest grow journal. This is my second attempt at mainlining a Mandala Seeds Hashberry plant, which was an unsuccessful effort due to my inexperience. With a successful mainline of a WWxBB strain (link is currently in sig) I am confident that this one has a better chance of success.

Helen started as a cutting taken from a Hashberry plant that is now in my flower room (again, link is currently in sig). Her mom is short in stature and is growing extremely dense buds. After Helen rooted, she began vegging with tri-nodes so I thought she would make a good candidate for maximizing heads while minimizing the number of trimming and training required. Rather than the 2-4-8-16 cycle of a normal bi-node plant we can get and extra 8 heads in the same four rounds (3-6-12-24).

Anyway, here is where we are so far and how we got there: 44 days from cloning, 30 days in veg, 30 days since initial topping

Here is Helen 14 days after rooting. She is transplanted to her 5gal pot and the initial topping performed:




Four days later we see some new nodes emerging.




Another six days and Helen has some substantial growth and is almost ready for her initial traiing.



..and a shot of Helen with Wando, the WWxBB mainline subject for a glimse into the future.




At 27 days from rooting she is ready for her first round of trimming and training (before)



...and after




That brings us to today, 30 days from rooting. Helen now has six heads emerging on three branches and should be ready for another trim n train by the end of the week.



I look forward to sharing this journal and welcome any and all comments, questions, opinions, etc. Thanks for having a look!

Sweet bro, will be very interesting to see how Helen goes with the mainlining

So, going for 12? Subbed up for a sweet ass tri-node. Are you going to leave a node or two inbetween tops for 24, or just keep cutting?

Going for 24. One of the three nodes is definitely recessive so definitely going to be a challenge to get the growth to even out. I trimmed the fan leaves from the dominant nodes thinking that would slow them doen but seems to have had the opposite effect. Challenge accepted!

yankeegreen said:

Going for 24. One of the three nodes is definitely recessive so definitely going to be a challenge to get the growth to even out. I trimmed the fan leaves from the dominant nodes thinking that would slow them doen but seems to have had the opposite effect. Challenge accepted!

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It's tough 'cause I guess sometimes cutting off lower fan leaves forces growth upward, whereas you'd think it'd slow the whole branch down.. Nugbuckets just stresses the branch by pinching/bending etc., no?

Highocaine said:

It's tough 'cause I guess sometimes cutting off lower fan leaves forces growth upward, whereas you'd think it'd slow the whole branch down.. Nugbuckets just stresses the branch by pinching/bending etc., no?

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Good call. Just pinched the faster growing nodes today. We'll see how it goes.

Show 'em who calls the shots, but don't stunt 'em, ay?

I thought I posted here 2 days ago but it appears it never registered. LOL. IDK maybe it was user error! Looking forward to this yankee, appears I'll have some work ahead of me keeping my own triploid evened out.

Seems I have neglected this thread as I let the Hashberry veg. Afraid I have failed at coaxing all three branches to get to the same growth rate. One of the nodes continues to lag behind and I think I am just going to go with it at this point. Still only six heads as there has been a lot of forced stunting along the way. Will top and train for 12 this weekend and move to flower in a couple weeks.

Node on the left side is still quite a bit smaller than the other two. I tried pinching the stems of the faster branches almost supercropping style, pruning the fan leaves on the faster growth, then on the slower growth, raising the slower growing heads higher than the slower growth. None of the tactics seem to have helped very much.

Any suggestions for future attempts?

hey yankee, looking great. I wish i'd have treated my tri node differently after seeing yours n stoney's, trunking or bonding or summin you call it??? certainly a tip/method I wont forget tho so thanks for that guys.. here's my 'Tripod' I left 3 set of nodes.

Hell yeah Doc, that'll play! Thanks for stopping by.

super crop your 2 stalks that are ahead, they will take a day or two to fully recover, and the shorter branch might be able to catch up in that time.

Nvm, you already tried that. Still interested in seeing this hashberry play out. I've got some Ganesh seeds in my stash.

Aside, has anyone tried trimming fan leaves to slow growth? For example, cutting them down to only 1 blade? It's possible that the lowered surface area would reduce the energy gathered (solar panels). Might be worth trying. Possible downside is that the trimmed node would be slowed for too long.. I dunno. Ramblin'

Dendrophilly said:

super crop your 2 stalks that are ahead, they will take a day or two to fully recover, and the shorter branch might be able to catch up in that time.

Nvm, you already tried that. Still interested in seeing this hashberry play out. I've got some Ganesh seeds in my stash.

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I pinched the stems but not to the point of "crack". Thinking about pushing the envelope and going all the way.

Highocaine said:

Aside, has anyone tried trimming fan leaves to slow growth? For example, cutting them down to only 1 blade? It's possible that the lowered surface area would reduce the energy gathered (solar panels). Might be worth trying. Possible downside is that the trimmed node would be slowed for too long.. I dunno. Ramblin'

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Don't know if anyone else has but I did. Went both ways on it: trimmed down the fan leaves on the dominant branches but that didn't work. Then tried trimming the slow branches - also no go.

Thanks for the feedback guys!

Did a little trim n train on the girl tonight. She is definitely fighting me every step of the way so this will probably be the last Hashberry Mainline I attempt. Going to leave her at 12 heads and put her in flower in another week or so.

Apologies for the off-focus pics.

Moved this little girl into flower today. Twelve heads that I predict will get unwieldy in the first week or so and will require some additional training.

Sweet as man, you got this mainlining down pat hey

We are at the end of week two of flower and this little girl has been a quite a handful to manage. She spent the past two weeks vegging and I spent the last two weeks trying to keep her in line. Finally, some flowering is apparent and I think she will begin transitioning to full-on flower over the next week.

nice work mr.. she's goin for it now

Week four of flower and bud development is a little slower than I would like to see. I did dial down the ballast a notch to help with heat issues so lower light intensity and higher heat than optimal may be contributing, but this is the middle of summer with no A/C!. A few of the leaves have shown some sporadic stress (burning) on the tips and/or edges. I am attributing that to my soil-less mix which may not have had quite enough seasoning time before being used. I saw the same thing on the first plant grown in this mix so I am not too worried - just mix more completely and age a little longer should do the trick.

Overall, once she gave in to the training in early stretch she has needed no additional pruning or training. Yield compared to her Mom will determine whether I Mainline this strain again.