ScrOG tutorial with pics

[Smoklahoma]

I've been following along since the start. Just finished my first grow, so I don't have much experience. Think what your doing is very interesting and definitely going to give it a try on a future grow. I kinda sit back in the shadows, look at the porn and try to soak up as much information as possible from all the experienced farmers here on this wonderful site.

[BaccaRacca]

Just thinking out loud here on trimming the lower stuff on the Gorilla Glue ... Referring to the GG#4 you commented on in my nute differential post. Just like my sativa-dominant Blue Dream is a nitrogen hog and a light hog, the indica-dominant GG#4 not only isn't nitro hungry, but it really doesn't like intense light very much. I can put my Blue Dream plants much closer to my Vipar Spectra 450s than I can the GG. Right now the Blue Dream is in its 3rd week of flower and I have it about 9" from the lights, and no sign of stress. I tried putting the mature vegging GG to 16" and I burned some tips. Now it's back down to 25" and loving it. And it is SO bushy. I keep on wanting to pet it like a dog. And the bushiness goes deep. And so much of the thickness has come from below. So I'm wondering just how much to trim below. I did some trimming today, and thought about your post about spreading your plants out, because I can't do that in my 2x2 and 2x4 spaces. So I trimmed off all those laterals you spread out. I chuckled and thought I'd send them to you and you could Gorilla Glue them on. Instead I threw them in the cloner. Anyway, I'd been thinking about not trimming them much. Your thoughts? (PS, I'm pretty high right now.)

[SleepyTibbs]

Looks masterfully done! I was just staring at that first picture for a minute or so lol

[bboyfromwayback]

The girls recovered well. 31 colas coming up on the Gorilla Glue, 37 on the White Widow. There are more bud sites exposed in the pics but I’m only counting the ones that are a couple inches above the screen. For the next week I won’t do much but look at them and pick the pots up to see if they need watered. Next weekend I’ll remove any colas that are lagging behind and not up to the canopy. The lower stuff just draws energy so I get it out of there. I’ll also remove any skinny stems even if they reached the canopy. Those seem to never produce a big top, just a nice nugget to pack a pipe with a couple times so I remove wk 3.

[bboyfromwayback]

If the lights aren’t stressed then your lights are good. Some plants from seed are just runts and won’t grow no matter what and some strains stay small and compact due to genetics. I grew a Purple Kush a while back that made autos look like monsters. Almost a 10wk veg, still only got 1oz off of it. Sometimes they burn ya no matter how good you are to them

[SleepyTibbs]

Aww geeze lol reading this sounds like my plants have been getting way too much light. I have 2 viparspectra p1000 in my 2x4x5 tent both at 100% 24" above, for the first 10-14 days they were at 60-80% but ever since then its been at 100% they dont seem to be getting burnt or stressed by it but it does explain why they are pretty stocky.

[bboyfromwayback]

Appreciate the kind words! In 2x4 tent you’d either do 1 really big plant, 2 big plants or 3 medium ones. Depth is always my nemesis growing in smaller tents. Glad you’re enjoy the site! Lots of valuable info on GWE and the forum

[SleepyTibbs]

I agree with what newbutoldgrower75 is saying about feeling hesitant as a new grower to post on someone else's thread who clearly knows much more. I posted a few things on the autoflower training topic by Canuck147 and felt real bad like I was high-jacking his thread with my dumb questions lol I still subscribe to it and check out every new post on it but now when I have a question I have just been making my own thread. I'll definitely be following this one too lol I think my 2x4x5 tent might be difficult to do SCROG in and still be able to get at everything but it is still very useful information for when I upgrade for future grows. I would say definitely don't be discouraged by lack of posts on this thread, you are still helping many people possibly increase their yield or even simply helping them find more enjoyable ways to grow. I for one have been really enjoying training my plants with LST after getting so much information from the GWE community.

[newbutoldgrower75]

It has been very useful to me buddy, really thinking about doing ScrOG on my next grow, think it will help improve my grows and growing style. I'm going to make my own screen to fit 6ft x 4ft of my 6ft x 6ft tent, which 3 x ES300's should cover nicely. Im sure I will have a few questions for you, if you don't mind, as I go over your tutorial in the next couple of months as I setup etc. Are there any specific sort of strains that are better to do ScrOG with? With what has happened in my tent lately, I'm going to bin my clones that I have growing and get some fresh seeds.

I have learnt a lot about growing from the GWE website and from your great people that have helped me with my last two grows, first two grows indoors for 15 years. The problem I'm having at the moment is remembering what I have learnt and concentrating on what I am doing, damn medication they have me on is pretty damn strong. Im looking at setting up another tent just for vegetation, and another down the track for Autoflowers. So hoping my learning curve gets shorter as Im growing more plants. Just have to be careful where I am, MJ is only decriminalised unfortunately for now. Keep up the good work mate, you are doing a great job. Cheers

PS loving these pics..wow

[bboyfromwayback]

The girls got haircuts today and right now they aren’t very happy. Afterwards I took them out for a nice dinner so their spirits should perk up soon. Since I read Nebula’s article on defoliation I’ve stuck to that schedule but we’re deviating here. These girls just got way too thick. I’ve grown a lot of GG and they’ve always been decent sized plants with nodes spaced 2-3” apart but this one is compact with tight nodes. Would’ve made a great manifold. First time I’ve grown White Widow and it’s tight and compact as well. Should have two full screens of fat buds in a few wks.

Full tent pic on 100%. We got Barney’s (left) vs ILGM (right) Love these Electric Sky’s. Turned down they’re mostly white and easy on the eyes. Crank the juice up and the red spectrum really comes out.

[bboyfromwayback]

Very true Grouchy! On a busy GWE day, that post may get buried a couple pages back quick. Funny you said this because I actually was scrolling through a few weekends ago and found a post from way back I’m going to build on. Dude had a good idea for training, I believe I’ve improved it😁 my next grow just got potted up from cups, another round of four. I may try something epic after that because BU2B proved, pics of massive indoor plants are just cool

[bboyfromwayback]

I like for the simplicity really. That and results. Other methods I worry if I took to much off the plants or did I leave too much on it. Those concerns are eliminated. Yield isn’t a issue but bang for my buck is. Figure if I’m going to pay $35-40 a month to run my tent, I want all the oz’s out of that I can get. Even if they’re stored for a while we’ll eventually smoke it

[Farmbuck]

Thanks for sharing @bboyfromwayback I might want to go back to SCROG again !!

[grouchyoldman]

Hey BBoy & Canuck, I've been following closely and taking notes along the way. I'm sure many others have as well.

Consider this, your experience and knowledge are being laid down for the purpose of sharing what you know and you've both done an exemplary job with difficult topics!

I think the missing element for work like yours is that once it is complete and the initial posting phase is history it becomes lost amid the flow of new posts. I have used the GWE search tools for the Forum and unearthed many forgotten treasures from the past, but the next new user who wants info on Training an Autoflower is unlikely to look beyond last week's posts.

A great addition would be some sort of "Greatest Hits" sticky post that additions like yours would end up in.

Good work Guys!

-Grouchy

[bboyfromwayback]

Thanks newbutoldgrower75, hopefully it’s useful. I got tired of buying dirt weed a long time ago and started growing but not consistently, just enough to keep a supply. Thanks to covid, working from home and stumbling upon GWE my grows have got considerably better the last year. You have the space, grow a lot of plants and that learning curve gets really short 😉

Ok, so I can make new post I just can’t add any more to the original. GWE must limit your edits lol so I’ll keep this one going

My son had a baseball game so I didn’t have much time in the tents this evening. I did snap a few pics to point some things out. Notice all the little stuff in the center that’s not so little anymore and starting to grow up. At this point the screens are mostly full other than chasing the corners. Tomorrow I’m going to thin them out and let the outer colas grow up. If they get big enough to move to another opening in the next couple days I will but at this point it’s about keeping a level canopy and there’s nowhere to move the stuff in the center.