hey msdsm - just read through all your stuff - nice work!
scrog is a little tricky - i have been doing it for the last several grows, i made the same mistake of putting the screen so low the first couple times... at the end, it is as if the screen were not there. the whole point of the screen is to be able to train your buds below a certain point so the light is not so high...usually growers with height limitations are the ones that end up with a SCROG - anyways, here are a couple pix so you can see what went from - and to.
here was the screen a little too low:
this is when i started flowering
that was close to the end - you cant see the screen at all and it looks like a field of bud branches, which is not bad for kinda messing it up...
the next time i fixed it, lifted the screen, and spent a little more time training the plants to stay under the screen a little better...
i start with something like this:
and train it to look like this:
i do this whenever they are getting out of the screen by 8" or so, when they start to bud, i get something like this:
(i cut some down before i remembered to take a pic, hehe
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if you can train the plants so only the buds are on top of the screen, you should get a higher number of larger colas... you will also notice this when trimming, it will not take nearly as long...
anyways, just trying to look out, hope that helps - i love the SCROG method...
hope you enjoy
I may be getting my hands on an auto, so check that out soon
