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dream2003

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Update day 35 transplanted to 4 gallon and 3 gallon pots last night and they grew an inch, last day of week 5, need advice on scrogging feel like im flying blind here do i top, de foliate, my girl on the left has ok side branching but the other is slow an hugging the main stem any input would be much appreciated first time scrogger here, left girl is 2-3 inch past net, right girl has just touched the net
 

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HighLowGrow

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Just keep tucking and tucking. Don't weave in and out of your strings. Keep everything below the squares. Basically you are growing the plant horizontal. As things start making their way up through the net, push em back down. Your goal is to have only buds popping up through the screen. Make sure you have drainage all set up. Your plant will be stuck to the screen.
 

dream2003

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Just keep tucking and tucking. Don't weave in and out of your strings. Keep everything below the squares. Basically you are growing the plant horizontal. As things start making their way up through the net, push em back down. Your goal is to have only buds popping up through the screen. Make sure you have drainage all set up. Your plant will be stuck to the screen.
OK thanks highlow I was lost on that part about the weaving seen some vids and steared me in the wrong direction looked like it weaved through the net. That been said steared in the wrong direction I kinda tied it down to promote side branching to shot up will take pic in a bit just so u get a better idea
 

Humanrob

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Mine are growing quickly, but are kind of lanky (long distances between nodes). I have the tops right under the lights -- like 1" to 2"(max) below them -- and they are already forced horizontal by the screen, so I don't think they are "stretching" per se. I think they are just Sativa dominant strains, in decent soil with limited additional nutrients, under weak-ass CFL's, and they are doing the best they can with what they have. I am usually having to push them under the strings twice a day, because they are growing so fast! They just aren't very "thick and bushy", like a lot of pictures I see.

My hope was that they would fill up the screen with green (i.e. I'd have wall to wall leaves)... but realistically it looks like at the rate they're growing, within two weeks they will reach the outer edges and have nowhere else to grow. At that point, whatever scrawny skinny little girls I have at that time, that's what I'll go to 12/12 with. I got them as rooted cuttings, but if they veg another two weeks I'll be flipping them at day 49 for me, that's a decent run on veg'ing given the relatively small space they're in.

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dream2003

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Starting to not like my pro-mix myco active, says feeds for nine months with no N.P.K numbers (organic) shits so hot u can use as fertilizer thought my girls can handle it being older and all at 50\50 premier potting soil/pro-mix, seedlings can barely take pro-mix 30\70premier. Premiere (soil,peat moss,perlite) think I'll stick with that couse my girls are burning, there leaves feel crispy might repot with other soil bin givin me problems o let's say October till now forgot to post this yesterday lol
 
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Humanrob

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Humanrob ur girls are lookin real good. I think ur grow will help me with mine, with urs been ahead of mine inall cant wait to see the end product
Thanks, and I hope it helps. The set in the scrog are growing so fast I'll flip them to 12/12 in a day or two. The others I just have to hold in veg for another four weeks (!!!) or so, until its warm enough to put them outside. I have no idea what that will do to them or what that will be like... 10 weeks vegging under CFL's and then going outside... it's all one big experiment!
 

Humanrob

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This has been such a learning experience... and while I've learned a LOT, there is so much that is inconclusive! I had four clones (two each of two types), and I split them between two rooms (one of each, in each room). One room is doing much better than the other. One thing I found, is that either I'm not doing LST correctly, or my GSC didn't like to be bent. The GSC I tried to LST got injured and the leaves on those branches turned brown (not dead, just stressed). The GSC under the SCRoG only had some very slight browning on branches that were bent. So either SCRoGing is more gradual, or I was just gentler with it (and therefore, I might recommend it to a newbie before trying LSTing).

I ended out making a fast sloppy SCRoG for the ones I had been LSTing, just before I turned them to 12/12. I removed all the other training wires, and gently put them under a metal wire screen. I did this to help keep them spread out somewhat evenly as they bud, and because the screen should help support the stems as they get heavy (perhaps wishful thinking on my part, but better safe than sorry!).

Here's some pics:
Short room with long time SCRoG -- its hard to tell in these pics, but these plants have maybe 30-50% more leaves/growth than the ones in the other room.
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These are starting to push through...
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This is the taller of the two rooms, you can see the brown leaves where the GSC got injured (the other plant in each room is a Casey Jones).
EDIT: these are the two that in a previous post I said I was going to put outside -- too long a story, but I decided to just finish them inside.

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This is the sort of after-the-fact scrog screen...

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And what the whole closet looks like if you step back

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I look forward some day to getting this all down, and then doing a journal about what I've learned. This first one is two steps forward, one step back, and has a lot of guessing, luck, and some very resilient weeds seeing it through.

Edit: and this is six weeks since I got the clones... 3 days since I flipped the short room to flower, one day since I flipped the tall room.
 
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