Indoor Growing Scrog

[KingRatt]

Couple of close-up photo follow-ups to show off the aggressive knuckling and HST bends, I feel like it went really well! Didn't end up breaking or tearing off any branches, my bends didn't snap the stem open anywhere. Took about 15 minutes total!
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My plan is to let them grow horizontally for almost a month while my flower tent finishes out and empties out. Around new years I'll be moving these ladies from a 2x4 tent to their final home 5x5 tent, I'll probably continue scrogging for 1-4 more weeks in their new home before flipping them to flower.

I'm hoping the timing ends up working out, I'm sure it'll be a big hassle to move these to a bigger tent and rescrog in a few weeks. Might take some clones in a week or two as a way to slow/cull progress

You gonna have to take alot of clones to slow that down lol

 

[KingRatt]

Hey all!

Just wanted to post a followup and show off how nicely these ladies have recovered and scrogged out. I'm tucking branches every day, the left one (Blueberry Bang Bang) seems to love it and is becoming a nice little bush of it's own volition, the right one (Gyat) is being a little more difficult with an abnormally thick main stem.
The trick for using pliers for supercropping is an awesome recommendation! No chance I would have been able to manipulate the Gyat main stem without breaking out the power tools lol.

Thanks again @420autoflower, I don't think I'd ever have gotten such a nice and low canopy if it weren't for all of the information you've posted!
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Looking good!

 

[HAWKMAN]

Can verify zazzy tents are decent. Mine's a couple years old and still holding strong
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never heard of them before - got to check the out - at present my go to in Infinity - has seen a=some Mars tents but they look "weak" so to say but probably Good wanting a "bar" light for small spaces have send some QB for under $100 (HLG)

 

[TristanTheDestroyer]

Off to a great start my friend! So nice to see other people getting into the 420 method. Impressive looking setup you got there, I’ve never seen that type of flood tray before but it sure looks mighty fancy.

Been really busy lately getting all my plants set up and not quite ready to unveil them yet but I’ll post some update pics for you in the next couple days. Got a little carried away when I was germinating and ended up with a little too much to handle myself. Would be great to have an apprentice or some gromies help me with all the tedious work but unfortunately I don’t.

Thanks 420! I'll attach a thumbnail here from one of my previous grows in clay balls. It's a called 4 pot Wilma recirculating drip system that I'm basically just using the res tank, water pump and drip lines for with this grow. I've just chucked a humidity dome starter tray (it's all i had handy) over the center, drilled a couple holes for drainage and dropped the Rockwool stack in there anticipating this one Autoflower to take up the whole tent. I could probably use the 4 pot sites to put 4 Hugo blocks in and do a SOG grow, but money has been tight atm and I am eager to try your SCROG method, so i thought for this grow why not just do one Auto, learn how to use Rockwool and see how it goes.
-Previous Grow. Tbh I'm sick of cleaning rocks at the end of each grow, so yeah, pretty excited to make the change to Rockwool.

Day 22, trying to keep that main stem horizontal is a challenge! Do you think I need to defoliate those bigger older leaves or leave them on for now?

 

[Mongoose]

Day 29.
FloraNova Grow 650ppm : pH 6.2 : PPFD 600 : DLI 50.
Like you Tristan, I had an ongoing fight keeping the top horizontal. I finally used some daily
gentle bending exercises for it, which seemed to help. Now, is it time for me to release mine?
Stems are short and thick, my best guess still: I had more PPFD than you typically have when
your plants are younger, 420, and the stems aren't motivated to elongate as much as your's do.
As I've mentioned, I've always had short/thick morphology with all of my grows. Will experiment
with this at the next grow.

 

[wangotango321]

Is it possible to over water these rock wool blocks?

 

[DOA]

Is it possible to over water these rock wool blocks?

There's a risk if the seedling is swimming in a soden block but apart from that, virtually impossible. Don't worry about algae build up around the blocks, this just shields the roots

 

[wangotango321]

There's a risk if the seedling is swimming in a soden block but apart from that, virtually impossible. Don't worry about algae build up around the blocks, this just shields the roots

I think I'll do a side by side with Eazy Pyramid. I'll switch to rock wool If it does as well due to cost.Only about $8 tho.

 

[Mongoose]

I think I'll do a side by side with Eazy Pyramid. I'll switch to rock wool If it does as well due to cost.Only about $8 tho.

I've only done DWC before this rockwool adventure. I'll never go back to DWC, based on only 30 days with rockwool and two plants. The growth performance is really impressive. And it's easier too.

 

[wangotango321]

I've only done DWC before this rockwool adventure. I'll never go back to DWC, based on only 30 days with rockwool and two plants. The growth performance is really impressive. And it's easier too.

Take a look at the eazy pyramids.It's a newer tech that regulates the perfect water and air ratio.It's based off continuous air pruning of the roots.According to them it's the new replacement roots that uptake the most nutes and I believe them after running two so far. DWC seems like a total pita.