When do YOU quit tucking under SCROG in Flowering?

[DrGribble]

I cannot decide when I should quit... I don't have pics yet (well I do in my journal) but my lights come on in 1 hour and I will snap some...

I am at DAY 8 of 12/12 and my horizontal SCROG is relatively full (but I just trimmed an insane amount of leaves to help get more shoots from below) so it may look a little thin when lights come on (no clue, could be crazy bushy again in 12 hours lol) but I have still been tucking my plant ANYWHERE it's popping up through the screen -- I am starting to wonder if I should be letting it grow UP now, when do you guys quit tucking in general I am interested to know everyone's methods for SCROG.

Every day I have growth 2-3 inches above the screen all over the place and I tuck it all over again... I have plenty of vertical height for this area of my grow to raise my light but wondering if people train the full 2-3 initial weeks until stretch is done or if I am at the point of letting everything climb now. I'll snap pics though in an hour or two but looking for a general rule of thumb or personal opinions on the matter.

Also I use bare lights and I like to keep it pretty close to the Canopy... some people I see with their lights a couple feet away (in air cooled hoods, lol) and I just don't get that... I have a bare bulb 12-14 inches from my plants and they have never shown any signs of stress since I worked out my air circulation and cooling to where I am happy with it.

 

[growone]

haven't done a scrog yet, but thinking about it soon
don't know the answer, but definitely interested in the reply
i would guess you try to keep all leaves/branches underneath, buds are let through the screen

 

[DrGribble]

I can go snap some pics in 10 minutes, unless I go down there and for some reason change my mind... lol... I liked taking pics more when it was bushy and thick instead of airy and pruned... I bet I have a bunch more to tuck under again, unless I should just let it go... will post within 20-30 minutes.

 

[Brother Numsi]

Even with A/C reflectors 10"-12" is a good rule of thumb....given 600w bulbs with my reflector covers about a 4x4 area with 6 feet of penetration. Can't wait to see the pix. For now...keep shoving them...pix will help

 

[DrGribble]

 

[DrGribble]

It looks so less dense, thick and large since all the trimming... damn that really takes away the aesthetics, and the screen is much less dense... I should take a pic of the trimmings.

 

[Brother Numsi]

You look to have plenty of room to spread out yet. One minor hassle with scrog is placement and untangling to maove a plant (or remove a male). are you able to move them a bit? They are still growing, but you want to keep the bends "easy". I may have missed it, but what are you using for bulbs?
Very good job!!

 

[DrGribble]

You look to have plenty of room to spread out yet. One minor hassle with scrog is placement and untangling to maove a plant (or remove a male). are you able to move them a bit? They are still growing, but you want to keep the bends "easy". I may have missed it, but what are you using for bulbs?
Very good job!!

My journal in my sig is this current grow... I am using 3 600W (2HPS, 1MH) one is vertical pendant style in the center of a cylinder SCROG (not shown here at all) and the other two are horizontal. I am still training the Horizontal ones unless I hear otherwise as being a better option but just curious how long others go through the stretch period. I have a bunch of growth shoots all running in the same direction and getting tangled with each other as I cant really get them to spread out (gonna have to take out some zip ties I think lol) but if they'd all kind of harden/wooden up where I want them maybe after a few days of zip ties I wonder how that would work.

I'll have to remove the ties and use new ones every time I need to tuck again though... I find tieing small pieces of string to be very frustrating to me, have been doing that on some of the vert grow and it annoys me.

 

[scroglodyte]

stop training when the screen is full, or til you actually start flowerin.

 

[DrGribble]

Sounds good... that's what seemed most logical to me, this is my first SCROG which has gone to flower (had one I had to abandon before years ago)

 

[Brother Numsi]

Scroglodyte says stop when you start flower and he's good with the info, ...saw your journal and I should have looked there first. you still may be able to reposition the plants as needed. Great grow!!

 

[DrGribble]

Oh yeah, I totally missed the "or when you start flowerin" part, lol... I am pretty much done with it I think though and ready to let em go up I just did some final repositioning so I think 8 Days in I'll let em go up up and away (unless I find a really good reason to tuck a branch in a certain area anyway)