In need of SCROG help please..

Hello,

First grow / scrog grow is nearly finished. After months of reading I finally got nearly everything close to right. The rdwc system/temps/humidity/ventilation/lighting etc for a beginner were all fairly good.. but then I went and stuffed up the scrogging part of it.

The plants looked healthy the entire grow, no wilting leaves, no deficiencies and growing around 2 inches per day during veg with close nodes.

The problem was when I flipped 12/12.. I initially grew the plants up to the scrog net untopped, when tops grew through the screen a bit i pulled tops back down and into the next outer square.. I filled around 70% of the screen and flipped 12/12, then everything went crazy. All the center holes that I previously filled with tops streched a good 2 feet towards the light..

Idiot me just bent everything back down level with the screen overlapping bud sites left, right and center.. and now the buds aren't that big at all and the grow seems stressed.. it's week 9 flower and hasn't grown much last few weeks. All the tops that grew towards the light and streched 2 feet are horizontal with wasted overlapped bud sites and all the tops only about half a foot above the screen.. when they probably would have been 3 feet if I left them.

Where were all the center screen tops supposed to go while I was still pulling all the outer screen tops down and into the next outer hole / How do you stop all the initial center of screen tops from growing towards the light while you are still filling the outer screen in transitional stretch?

All those 2 foot tops in the center that I pulled back down to the screen, I did this as I had no idea if they would of kept stretching while I was still filling the outer screen holes, and I would have run out of height, and it didn't make sense all tops in the center 2 feet tall and all outer stuff level with screen.

The exact name of strain is unknown, but I do know it is half sativa/ half indica.

Any help or link to proper scrog tutorials would be great as I really don't wanna stuff up my next grow.

Cheers

I have a fair few views and no replies.. Is this post too long and no one is bothering to read it? Please let me know as I am fairly new cheers

Tanzmetal said:

I have a fair few views and no replies.. Is this post too long and no one is bothering to read it? Please let me know as I am fairly new cheers

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Man u done correct mostly it pretty straight forward ive only done 1 scrog myself during veg u want 1 node per square fill screen 100% during first week of stretch keep folding down keep eveything even as u can then just let it grow when they stretch during second week of flower even em out if u gota pull 1 cola lower tie it to screen so top r even after second week u should have a very even 1 to 2 foot above screen of buds startin to form my last scrog some buds got so heavy I had to put a line above buds to tie em up

It sounds like you weren't tucking the centre branches when they were stretching, if you are tucking the outer branches that should then leave the space to tuck the inner branches into those holes.

As Weedenhanced says the most important thing is to keep the canopy level, and if you tuck branches you need to do the whole plant.

It's just about judging when to stop tucking, and by the sounds of it you could have tucked for slightly longer so that they didn't stretch to 3ft vertically.

Hey guys cheers for the replies.. yea I didn't tuck the centre stuff during the stretch I didn't know I was supposed to.. there are so many wasted bud sites underneath all the 2 foot stalks I bent over.. the buds that are growing above the screen are starting to fatten up though so harvest shouldn't be too bad.. have a good one aye