I don't know if it would work( at least the way it was designed ) with autos, but i would think that with the screen you would be training, just the with the pruning and such that usually happens with a scrog, it is more high stress than low stress training. I remember seeing a scrog grow on RIU, the grow went 7 months, but he pulled like a pound from one plant, looked like alot of work, you could rock that in half the time with a few good autos, and maybe less work.