ScrOG Idea

You pretty much did grow a flat plat, as was said earlier I think you'll be better off.

Alright well I ended up having a surprise apartment inspection that was supposed to happen yesterday and the guy never even showed up I had to completely cut apart my screen to get it out of the apartment and take it to a different room that was basically the same size/conditions as mine. I should have her back by the end of the week, and I'm able to go to it whenever I want to make sure everything is looking good all week. There wasn't much stress on her during the transfer which was a huge relief and she's looking pretty happy atm . I'm not sure if when I get her back that I should try and put a screen back in or if I should just let her go and see what I get from that.

Last Picture I took of her in the screen.

Here's a picture from when I took her out of the room.

And a couple pictures of the tops from today when I was watering her.


Has anyone had experience with having to take their plant out of their screen during flower and tried putting her back in, or just letting her go as is? If so let me know. It seems like her tops are honestly going to be bigger if I just leave her out, but idk what to do yet.

^ plenty! Situations come up. Your case is a good example. (and fine place to plug my units that are portable lol) As for the need for the screen; the tool of using the screen as a training object is obviously not needed once flowering however, the support and positioning that the screen/trellis/netting provides is also very helpful. Once a plants branches are in a horizontal position they are less capable of bearing the same weight as when they were vertical. The result, is energy spent producing stem structure and "strength" in order to compensate. With the screen, the weight is supported. Without, the weight of flowers causes bending of the branches of which have not been developed in a relative position to bare the force at that angle etc. That bend in turn causes a reaction by the plant to support that weight (ie. energy spent on something other than flowering). Some argue "there is plenty of energy", but thats not the ticket here. The point is to focus energy spend, on flowering production during that set time period in which it occurs. In other words, energy spent producing stem, is time lost producing parts of the plant that become "harvest".
Still however, your own particular set of circumstances and situation most often dictate what will work best. GL
At this point in your observation of trellising cannabis in the manner you have, can you make any determination of how well the design worked and what the pros and cons may have been if you had done anything differently? I believe these questions are important to point out in real experiences like your own, in order to paint the picture black and white for the next guy.

I feel that the design had worked really well. The only thing that I wish I had done different is that I wouldn't have topped so often because some of my tops have too much space between nodes and I'm concerned that I might end up with too many popcorn nugs. I understand what you're saying about the plant having to waste energy on strengthening the stems when it should be concerned with just flower production. I'm thinking that what I'm going to do is simply tie down the main branches when I bring her back so that she's just as open as she was, and I'll tie up the buds if they need the extra support. I can say for being my first grow I've gone through just about the worse situations possible and I've learned a lot (Magnesium deficiency, my headband got mites which I killed, having to move the plant to a seperate location) which should make the second grow much better. I'm planning on doing another ScrOG for my next grow, but this time I'll use two plants and have each one fill out one half of the screen. Also I'm going to use a flat screen next time and quite possibly flower a little sooner now that I know how much stretch I'm going to deal with. Regardless, thanks for your input Woodsman, I appreciate it. I just went and checked on her today and she's got trich's all over the place already and smells amazing. You walk into the room and it just hits you in the face. I'm looking forward to my harvest and anticipate that she's gonna be some good smoke!

Those are a couple pictures that I took today. Some of them you can see the trich's on the leaves already. There's about 50 or so tops on the plant right now. I saw some smaller stuff in there that I feel will be a waste of the plants energy so I'm going to cut them off as soon as I get her back.

My computer took a dump on me so I haven't updated in a while.
Here's some pictures from day 34. She just got her last feeding of Beastie Bloomz yesterday and I'm not sure if I want to use cha-ching or if I'm just going to use molasses for the rest.
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very nice grow & setup, you did a nice job good luck