What Training Methods After Getting Experience

[Doubledealing72]

I haven't tried SOG, but I would think taking care of several plants would be more time consuming and work than working with just a couple plants. It only takes me 5 to 10 minutes a day for maybe 2 or 3 weeks to accomplish what I need to. My yields are normally really good (between 2-8 oz per plant depending on the strain, with a few exceptions of plants yielding far more). Plus, in my personal experience, I have only grown in a 3x3 tent so I don't have the space that some do.

 

[homegrown]

Are You talking Autos or Photos? I've seen a lot of SOG grows on GWE, but i dont recall anyone doing it regularly. Lots to consider doing a SOG, Space, tent height, light coverage, pot size, ease of access for watering and plant care, are you going to use a net? The strain you choose(some grow tall and lanky, some stay short and bushy). All the fiddly training we do is to maximize the growing space we have. Letting a plant grow unchecked is fine so long as you have the space to do it. I have 3 different photo strains creating a SOG and without training would have overloaded my growing space and i would be super cropping real soon.

 

[piper]

I run a perpetual sog with clones, yeah sometimes I top, sometimes just lst, or just natural, all depends on my body, I have to keep them small, my body has a 8 pound weight limit, so this is the best way for me.

I have to add more because I just harvested some

I've been running northern lights, white widow, mob, maui mango haze, spacequeen, kush n cookies, nic the bruiser, for a few years now

I use 1 gallon pots

 

[Tone3000]

Doubledealing72 It seems like more plants might be more work, but in a sea of green you just water them, so it really isn't more, it's less.

In your 3x3 tent, you might be growing one monster plant or 4 plants in 5 gallon containers. In SoG, you'd have 16 or 25 plants in 1 or 2 gallon containers.

It's a choice about how to utilize your space.

 

[Tone3000]

What a great looking grow you have! Your space is very well-filled and your canopy is so nice and flat and level. I am sure that took a fuckton of PITA training! While one may see a solid ocean of green plants in your tent, that is not a SOG style grow at all as I understand the meaning of SOG.

The considerations you list are not specific to SoG. Maybe you're thinking of SCROG, because there are no nets in a SOG. SOG is to grow many small plants instead of fewer, larger plants. They are left untrained or only topped once, so they mostly grow just the central cola (or two) and not a lot of other flowers because other bud sites aren't opened up to the light.

SoG is best suited to uniform grows using clones. Varieties that are best suited for it are those that are naturally short and stocky, though the small pot size really limits the plant size. Which is the whole point, so training is not necessary. A single topping can help keep height in check on med-height strains, and that's the only training that might be done. It's not a recommended method for tall strains.

It's not a matter of having the space to do it. It's choosing to utilize your space this way: Lots of tiny plants instead of a few big ones.

There's nothing at all wrong with any method of growing. I'm looking at all of them to see which seems most efficient for giving me good size yields of good quality bud with the least amount of effort on my part.

If I'm going to be growing from clones anyway (so I don't have to constantly buy seeds) then I can make a bunch of clones in little pots, just water them, maybe top once, then harvest. Then on to the next one. I can grow a whole tent full of clones of one variety then grow a different variety. Grows will be short because the plants are small and won't need as long to grow.

It looks to me like the most efficient method with the most reward for the least effort.

What am I missing? Is there some huge drawback to this method to explain why everyone isn't using it? Maybe everyone else is way more keen on tending their plants and all this mainlining gives them a chance to fiddle because they like to fiddle and fuss so it gives them something to do besides overwatering or otherwise loving their plants to death.

 

[Tone3000]

That sounds so interesting. What do you do to make it perpetual? It looks like you are somehow staggering your harvests?

My tent is small. I am planning to do uniform grows of clones and harvest all at once, with new clones ready to move from the veg to flower tent at harvest time.

Just popped the regular beans. Gotta grow them, clone them, flower them, toss the males, then once they're done, I'll know which mothers are female and I can get cloning and SOGing.

 

[piper]

Sorry, life got in the way, grandson is on R&R from Air Force


I use a 3x3 tent for veg

once a month 4 go in, 4 go out (sometimes more, sometimes less)

I don't care about yield, how pretty it looks, how tall it is I have been growing since the mid 70's
I just grow for my medicine

Nowadays I just throw them in, many different strains, let them do their thing

I only have one arm that works, really it's dead, after 7 surgeries I don't have to have it amputated, I can't hold a beer with it ... yet (working on that)

I can't walk without a cane, so I can't really fill the tent like I used to many moons ago

 

[3Berries]

I'm trying some solid #12 insulated copper wire I fashion in a hoop and lay on the branches to spread them flat.

 

[Bootsy]

hey. i have done sea of green twice in my 3 by 3 tent. yields came out pretty good, but i will say it was more work. I have lots of free time so wasnt an issue but a few times it just got to be a pain. reaching over or removing the little girls (1 gallon pots) was almost a daily routine. 12 oz (9 plants) once and 15 oz (15plants) another time. Definitely a faster way to get to harvest though. In comparison, in the same tent I have gotten a max of 11 oz from 4 plants and 10 oz from 2 plants - crowding is always an issue. I used coco for each of the SOG grows. I do intend to do it again, but I have a lot of compost (seaweed, scraps and manures all available easily) so it makes it hard to justifiy going to using nutrients as opposed to organic living soil, and the little pots i expect wouldnt have enough "stuff" to do a full grow. all fun. SOG was for me mainly a challenge to LST all the little girl to keep em level.