I thought I would take a moment and share my outdoor SCROG with all of you.
Sometimes people get too hung-up on one type of grow style or technique - indoor vs outdoor, LST or lollipoping, organic vs hydro and so on, but these are all just different tools in the tool chest. A good workman matches the right tool to the right job. And in this particular case the right tool was the tried and true SCROG method.
For most outdoor strains I would usually let the plant bush out as much as possible, tying it up and out with wire and using netting and poles for support. But in this case I have a strain thats the perfect candidate for a big time SCROG.
This plant has several draw-backs outdoors - it needs a lot of training and support, and it also has extremely brittle branches that don't take kindly to being tied up or out.
The strain is called Purple Sour Diesel, it's one of the few good strains I have that flowers early enough to finish in October. (that's why I grow it)
This was what they looked like when they went in the ground on June 20. The first two rows are Purple Sour Diesel. Five plants in each row.
For my 'screen' I used 50'x4' roll of fence.
This was taken the day the fence was put on - July 23.
At this stage the plants are already flowering but they will continue to grow a lot and will remain pliable (bendy branches) for weeks to come.
The squares are the perfect size and spacing to train tops through.
This was shot on the same day - July 23.
A few days later it looked like this.
For the next few weeks I kept training horizontally; filling up as many squares as possible with tops.
If any tops got too tall they got popped over to an empty square.
Eventually it went from this....
To this....
As the stems started getting brittle and hard to bend I let everything go vertical. By then the space was pretty full.
This was taken at the beginning of September.
And this was taken last week.
As you can see...it's turning out very nice! (better then I expected)
So there you have it.
Nothing new or earth shattering. Just standard SCROG practices. Most people use it to maximize tops in the grow zone. I use it more for strength and support. It's the exact same techniques though, just on a larger scale.
I hope you enjoyed my take on the SCROG method!
Porky
...My New Grow Room, Sub'd.
Check out my baby girls. They are shapping up to be very interesting.
A HAIRY START
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I believe your "hair" may be the midrib of the leaf exposed, lacking chlorophyll thus apearing white . Likely will be the last time you see that on the plant. Those leafs are the first to emerge after the cotyledon. Likely exposed to something in the soil just after germination that resulted in this occurrence. IMO
Your plants seem to be exhibiting serious results of imbalanced soil, this should be corrected long prior to screening. Gently washing the roots off and transplanting to a proper soil is my one and only non scrog recommendation. Take it for what its worth buddy! Good luck to ya.
If I didn't know you were a scrogger I wouldn't have bothered. (here anyway)
Diagram showing Midrib:http://www.bing.com/images/search?q...BE3568A959ED5ADA051A1C652&first=0&FORM=IDFRIR
She has just started to show her 1st little Flowers today, and they are beautiful !! Hope you like the pic I took it just before my UV-B switched off at the end of her (Royal-Haze) day-time (12/12) - STELTHY
