Boy Oh Boy!
Hello Folks, Im Woodsman.
My Method is one where SCORG is used. Notice, I didnt say my method is scrog. See this is the concept of SCROG that I see so many people miss: SCROG: is a method that imporvises the use of a tool ie. screen, in order to accoplish a goal. The goal however is yours. You own it. It can be what ever you strive for.
Lets take for instance I have a tent. It is 4 feet by 4 feet and 6 feet tall. Now I know that this area within the box is the only area I can grow in. My light, which is placd above my plants at measurable distance, cast a certain amount of light that we measure in Lumens. That amount of lumens can be measured at distances from the bulb and we can see that light is lost over a certian distance from the bulb. This can also be seen in plants that do have a "top" cola. The top of the plant recieves the most light thus the smaller flowers below where light is lost.
So given that my height is pre destin 6 feet, and the rest of my area is within a 4 foot square, it can be measured that my floor space of that 4 X 4 is the same surface area that I could have filled with plant right? I could fill it with numbers of pots that are plants which will fill that space; I could bend plants down untill they become a bush and fill that area however I will loose the control over height at some point once flowering, or I could SCROG. Scrog allows me to use as little as one plant to fill as much surface area as I place screen for.
Thats the goal of SCROG however, as I said to start with you only own what you do with it to reach your own goal. The rest is already the idea.
I know that I have a block of area within my tent that I want filled with BUD. How I do this, is set my scrog at 24" (many reasons) and allow my plants (Two) to vegg untill they are large enough that once placed under the screen, they fill the majority of the space with individual branches (aka tops). These small shoots or branches are allowed to grow up through the screen ( NOT WEAVED) and as they do, the tallest ones are carefully pulled back through the screen and moved outward to the furthest place it can reach from center or where ever your plant sits. Once full (or close to, as explained previously by another) budding begins, and you have a full area of mature ready tops waiting to turn into your dreams!
Enjoy!
I invite you all to join us at the Scroggers page. SEARCH FORUMS: Enter The Scrog/ United Scroggers Post Page. I wont give you a link, becuase that would be skipping a step in your quest to become educated. Education requires your ability to find what your looking for. Good luck! Happy Scrogging!