When to change cylinders?

Started a few weeks ago with a 9x2 cylinder. My stats are in the signature below. I’m packing it now after about 4 weeks. Takes half the session to pack it and my glans doesn’t expand to fill the cylinder. The question I have is will my glans pack it at some point? Should I stay with 2x9 till it does? I’m mostly looking for girth here and I want uniformity as well. When I say pack I mean its hard to release pressure at the end of a session packed skin tight at the walls.

I have the next size cylinder, should I move to it now? Or wait for a while before I do? Anyone?

It’s personal preference, I like a tube with circumference about 0.25” - 0.5” more girth than I have. Max I would ever do is about 1.0” over my girth. Everything beyond that is just excessive fluid build-up for me.

Nice gains!

Boy stage up asap! When I moved onto the x40 from x30 my girth just exploded out of nowhere because I was packing the latter too much.

No answer about the gains for my glans? It’s nice and proportional to the shaft, worried it may fall behind - anyone have experience with this?

Your glans will grow but at a much slower rate.

So one of the comments I get from partners is how wonderfully proportional I am, they love my glans specifically. Am I doomed to have a smaller glans in proportion to the shaft as I continue to pump?

I agree pumping grows the glans at a slower rate. But I think clamping grows the glans at the same rate as the shaft.

Since you already have the next size tube, you can either just start pumping with that tube or try staging when you start with your 2” and after packing, switch to the 2.25” and continue.

If you just start your routine with the 2.25”, start with an erection and bone press the tube into your crotch when you begin to pump up to help prevent your balls from being sucked into the tube.

Large head size for me occurs with longer 20 to 30 minute continuous sessions.

Like Gprent mentioned it takes time in he cylinder.

wow the 2-1/4” looks massive, but hey its on now and as scary as it may sound i’ve packed 1/3 of the way already and I’m 10 minutes in. This is very exciting lets see how things go.

Well second attempt with the 2.25” cylinder, its just too hard to manage not getting my testicles sucked in and painful as hell when it does happen. Also seems like a lot of surrounf sking gets sucked in as well. I think I’ll stick with the 2” for a while more.

What cylinders are the best? Where do you get the tubing at?

Hey JCL!

If you have a flanged base edge on your cylinder, check out the silicone gaskets at PumpToys. They will help prevent ball suck in and significantly improve comfort.

This is just a suggestion, but to combat the balls suckage problem when using your larger tube, you may want to consider doing full package/ball pumping at the start of your session. When I first started that type of pumping years ago, I found that it was extremely helpful in keeping my balls from getting sucked into my larger cock only tubes because of the expansion that occurred with my scrotum. So I would go full package for maybe the first 15 minutes, then cock only for the rest of the session. That was years ago back when I first started and now my package has increased sufficiently now so that I don’t have to worry about suckage when using larger cock only tubes.

As far as when to change cylinders from a cock only perspective, there are two trains of thought on that subject. One states that you should remain in the smaller tube for an extended period of time to help increase core growth, while the other states that you should continually increase cylinder size to help spur outer growth. I opted to take a median approach and when it was time to go up to a larger size, I would mix my sessions with a portion in the smaller tube and a portion in the larger tube until eventually I couldn’t fit the smaller tube anymore. I’ve gone through two tubes sizes like that and so far it’s gotten great results. Currently I’m working on maxing out my 2.25” completely and making my 2.5” my solo tube until it’s time to work into my 2.75”.

And like Titleist mentioned, the glans growth has been slower than the shaft growth so I will supplement with head clamping here and there to try to help keep pace.