Outdoor Scrog

[satymonster]

I am trying to keep my plants below a six foot fence line but after lsting they were just not cooperating. I put one metal screen over them only to have them grow straight through and two are growing through the second screen i place a ft n 1/2 higher as i speak. The tallest are a total of about 4 ft off of the ground. I am already coming up with ideas of how I am going to block them from view if/when they go over the fence. How tall do you think they will finish at? Do you believe i have significantly increased my yield by doing this?

 

[EagleEyeHamThrust]

Scrog is great for low-profile growing, but expect them to grow at least a foot above the screen. LST is probably the easiest and best method for outdoor growing. Use big wire to stake the plants along the ground. It doesn't look like weed to the untrained eye, or even to helicopters. As long as you don't have a ton generating a huge odor for nearby neighbors, you should be good.

 

[doowmd]

last year i threw a few seeds into an old dog kennel in early june, thinking they wouldnt get big enuff to be seen from the road....well i was wrong, this thing started growing like some kinda freak weed! (sarcasm intended) but seriously, it must've been from where i had kept the dogs in there (before), and all the shit that was there from them, cause that thing grew so big so fast that i had to pull an old minivan i had beside the kennel trying to block it from view. it grew above the top of the van and i started tying it to the kennel. the side branches AND the ones i tied down tried to grow above the top of the van!!! this went on for most of the summer, (sativa dom. bagseed i guess) until i finally harvested her in late sept. (prolly a month or more early due to being paraniod bout it). so to make a long story longer, and to give ya a heads up...start tying it down and be ready to keep tying it down, especially if its a sativa dom. strain. u may even have to cut off part of a branch here and there.

 

[satymonster]

Scrog is great for low-profile growing, but expect them to grow at least a foot above the screen. LST is probably the easiest and best method for outdoor growing. Use big wire to stake the plants along the ground. It doesn't look like weed to the untrained eye, or even to helicopters. As long as you don't have a ton generating a huge odor for nearby neighbors, you should be good.

I have a lst'd them but it was not enough so i tried to do a scrog. i expect them to be well over a foot beyond the screen also. they are there and its only june :/

 

[MediMary]

im subbed for this one, looking good

 

[woodsmantoker]

Hello,

You're aware that LST is designed to trigger a response that results in massive growth right?

I would suggest sticking with SCROG, however changing the set up. I would say increase your screen dimensions and lower it to the canopy now. Spend your time pulling branches down through and laying them horizontal across the under side of the screen. The secondary growth will grow through while you train the tops to out reach the farthest parts of the screen. Depending on the time frame you’re looking at before flowering, you should be able to fill quite a screen by then. You could also allow them to grow through, and pull them back down and tie off on the screen...This continues the LST further more, and results in vigorous growth however can negatively stress some strains.

Your yield will increase due to adequate lighting to a larger surface area of flowers.

 

[satymonster]

Too late to lower the second screen. they have already reached the second screen and there are four more solid months at least until harvest. these things have gotten bushy though. im predicting atleast a solid 9x6x6 area of bush. who knows may be more.

 

[TexasMonster]

I think I will watch this grow, you are gonna update for us, ¿que no?

 

[OZUT]

This should be interesting.....

 

[slump]

THIZZ or DIE!

 

[thebugslaaaa]

u mean thizz and die??

 

[satymonster]

u mean thizz and die??

hahahahaha

 

[satymonster]

the plants in the raised beds should grow another foot over the next week with this nice sunny weather. 80's all week.

 

[TexasMonster]

Very nice. Cant wait to see them buds.

 

[jfa916]

fuk those are huge and many of them i have a 4.6 ft high sativa and it kust keeps grwoing also good job on the grow

 

[satymonster]

fuk those are huge and many of them i have a 4.6 ft high sativa and it kust keeps grwoing also good job on the grow

i was thinking they would end up 6 ft high a little while ago but now im thinking 8 ft

 

[satymonster]

another update. low profile my ass. the girls will be over the six foot fence despite all of my early efforts. a blind will be up by later today. the leopard sharks and stingrays in the soil came through.

 

[TexasMonster]

another update. low profile my ass. the girls will be over the six foot fence despite all of my early efforts. a blind will be up by later today. the leopard sharks and stingrays in the soil came through.

When do you expect to harvest?

 

[satymonster]

im expecting a mid october harvest, but there is no frost coming so it can go as long as it needs to. when do you harvest in texas?

 

[TexasMonster]

To be honest, I am a newbie who will be finding out when that is. I have a bag seed plant that is 4ft and 5 inches tall. I just germed some Afghani seeds. Well, one has poked its head up and I am waiting on the other. I hope one of the Afghans is a female. If one aint I will still pollinate one of the bag seed branches just to have that experiance I suppose, and some seeds. I have two auto strains that have popped their heads up, Onyx and Auto Assassin. I bought a 10 pack of Master Kush but I plan on playing with those this winter inside or waiting until Spring.

So the answer is, I dont know yet. I have been following your grow though. I intend to steal a couple things off you your experiance for my outside spring grow. I am growing these autos and the Afghans outside too.