need help understanding scrog method

[Doobie Doober]

I dont understand how the scrog method works and how it could increase yield. Please help me understand

 

[Magnificient]

I think it's a form of supercropping. It involves bending, tying down, and sometimes cropping the tops of limbs. These are basic supercropping methods. But it's main function is to keep the plants at a uniform height. For example, the optimum distance of a 400 watt mh is 6 inches from the plant. If one plant is 1 foot tall while the others are only 6 inches tall, then only the tallest plant will get optimum light coverage. By bending that tall plant down beneath a screen, all the plants can get optimum light.

 

[StonedBlownSkiller]

I think it's a form of supercropping. It involves bending, tying down, and sometimes cropping the tops of limbs. These are basic supercropping methods. But it's main function is to keep the plants at a uniform height. For example, the optimum distance of a 400 watt mh is 6 inches from the plant. If one plant is 1 foot tall while the others are only 6 inches tall, then only the tallest plant will get optimum light coverage. By bending that tall plant down beneath a screen, all the plants can get optimum light.

Right on the money. cant explain it any better.

 

[Doobie Doober]

so if i where to grow in a pc grow box would it be recomended to do this method or grow just normaly?

 

[StonedBlownSkiller]

It would be hard to maneuver around to do the bending and tying. I would just LST. how many plants? 1 or 2?

 

[T.H.Cammo]

I dont understand how the scrog method works and how it could increase yield. Please help me understand

Magnificient explained 1/2 of the process pretty well in Post #2. He explained "how you grow one" - not so much "how it could increase yield".

Normally (in "Nature"), the plant grows vertically and the sun has no problem "blasting" it's way down through the foliage to get to the "Lower Levels". That way you end up with a good yield because the plant can live up to it's potential.

With the limitations of "Indoor Lighting", penetration becomes a problem - and the "SCROG" method is the solution! The whole point of the SCROG is to "Reshape" that "vertical plant" into a "Flat Canopy" with all the budsights exposed to the lights.

Now back to the second half of the original question, "how it could increase yield". Exposing the budsights does make it easier for our "feeble" grow lights to produce a better yield! But I beleive the real trick to a better "SCROG Yield" is through the "careful and well directed" distribution of the plant onto the screen. And secondly, fill the screen up to about 80% before you put it into "flower". That is how you get the maximum amount of budsights exposed to the optimum amount of light! And that is how you "increase yield"!