Indoor Growing Scrog

[KingRatt]

It's a decent plant but scrog was my goal.Got over whelmed with the defol.After the supercrop I couldn't keep up. Sorry 420 for hijacking your thread.

Yeah its a decent amount of work and if you let it go you can get in trouble. At least you know what you are getting into next time!

 

[DOA]

It's a decent plant but scrog was my goal.Got over whelmed with the defol.After the supercrop I couldn't keep up. Sorry 420 for hijacking your thread.

You'll know for next time and some strains produce less leaf material which is always helpful. Your girl looks top notch, I'd be very pleased with myself.

 

[DOA]

Thanks King! DOA, a question for you. In your last series of posts of one of your grows, from awhile ago, I noticed that you used what appeared to be a pair of Migro Aray 2s in a 2x4' tent. If that is correct, c an you guess the distance you kept between the plants, and the dimmer settings, if you dimmed at all, throughout the grow? I happen to have the same lights, and can match your distance(s) and do a PPFD & DLI simulation. Sorry to keep bugging everyone with this, but my concern is having my lights too close to the canopy, and having short thick stems develop, which is what I've always done in the past, and that is exactly what happened. I want to be reasonably sure I can get 420's and your stem elongations in the weeks before scrogging out. Thank you!

Sorry for the late reply. The lights just about fit in the 2x4, the blocks are just set up between the lights so everything looks even. I don't measure the distances between them, just by eye.

As for the distance I have the lights above the canopy, I start of at approximately 50cm. The lights are on full blast, 24/7 they only draw 220w from the board so are cheap to run. Having the lights on like this also helps keep the environment stable.

Once the plants are framed up I lower the lights to about 40cm, I've never used a light meter, it's all just done by feel.

Don't worry about short thick stems, the thicker stems will be able to carry more nutrients a shorter distance. Short stems for this method are actually desirable

 

[Mongoose]

Sorry for the late reply. The lights just about fit in the 2x4, the blocks are just set up between the lights so everything looks even. I don't measure the distances between them, just by eye.

As for the distance I have the lights above the canopy, I start of at approximately 50cm. The lights are on full blast, 24/7 they only draw 220w from the board so are cheap to run. Having the lights on like this also helps keep the environment stable.

Once the plants are framed up I lower the lights to about 40cm, I've never used a light meter, it's all just done by feel.

Don't worry about short thick stems, the thicker stems will be able to carry more nutrients a shorter distance. Short stems for this method are actually desirable

Thanks DOA! I will do my current seedlings' light similarly. Had too much light on them last grow and the main stem had no reason to stretch. It was so short and woody, at top-over time it ended up on the side of the block at a 45 degree angle. Will also use plant ties
to hold the 'top-over' wire tight against the stem below the bend, to keep it straight and centered on the block.

 

[Lautaro]

Once the plants are framed up I lower the lights to about 40cm, I've never used a light meter, it's all just done by feel.

Thanks DOA! I will do my current seedlings' light similarly. Had too much light on them last grow and the main stem had no reason to stretch. It was so short and woody, at top-over time it ended up on the side of the block at a 45 degree angle. Will also use plant ties
to hold the 'top-over' wire tight against the stem below the bend, to keep it straight and centered on the block.

Hi, I'm new here, but I read the whole thread jajaja, and there's some really good information. I have a question because I'm having trouble translating "Once the plants are farmed up." What does DOA refer to? At what point does it lower them to 40 cm?
Thanks, and greetings from Argentina!

 

[KingRatt]

Hi, I'm new here, but I read the whole thread jajaja, and there's some really good information. I have a question because I'm having trouble translating "Once the plants are farmed up." What does DOA refer to? At what point does it lower them to 40 cm?
Thanks, and greetings from Argentina!

I believe he meant framed up, as in already in the net

 

[DOA]

Hi, I'm new here, but I read the whole thread jajaja, and there's some really good information. I have a question because I'm having trouble translating "Once the plants are farmed up." What does DOA refer to? At what point does it lower them to 40 cm?
Thanks, and greetings from Argentina!

Hi and welcome , I guess that's probably a typo @KingRatt was correct, it's meant to say framed up.

I use a heavy gauge wire rack/frame to keep those tops down, rather than a scrog net, I'm just a lazy gardener.

DOA is just my user name abbreviated from my old one DeanOnAuto.

 

[Mongoose]

DOA is just my old user name abbreviated from DeanOnAuto.

This is good to know, Dean! Way better than Dead On Arrival, which is what that initialism typically means where I live.

 

[KingRatt]

Hi and welcome , I guess that's probably a typo @KingRatt was correct, it's meant to say framed up.

I use a heavy gauge wire rack/frame to keep those tops down, rather than a scrog net, I'm just a lazy gardener.

DOA is just my old user name abbreviated from DeanOnAuto.

I will be using 2”x2” square metal mesh.found a roll pretty cheap on amazon !

 

[DOA]

I will be using 2”x2” square metal mesh.found a roll pretty cheap on amazon !

That sounds perfect, do you think you'll be able to cut the ladies free at the end with the right tools, that would be a big plus over my heavy rack The biggest issue I have is cleaning it after each use