ScrOG Growers Worth Emulating?

Travis

Travis

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Planning a ScrOG in an Autopot with living soil for my first grow.

Anyone out there doing this who’s worth studying? I see TONS of folks doing ScrOGs with plenty of different methodologies and just wondered if the group here could recommend any standouts who’ve been doing it with repeatably/consistently good results. Keep it positive, please!
 
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Sorry you haven't gotten any responses. It seems it's a very individualistic style; people do what works for them with the plants they have. Each variety of weed has different requirements for scrog, and with some, it just doesn't make sense, for example slow veggers like Bubba Kush that stay relatively compact in form. But the basics are the same: you start by either topping or fimming the plant, and then you shape the resulting tops, likely topping more than once to achieve a dense canopy, which you shape and arrange by bending stems and using a mesh or screen. Then you flower them and take photos :LOL:
 
Travis said:
Planning a ScrOG in an Autopot with living soil for my first grow.

Anyone out there doing this who’s worth studying? I see TONS of folks doing ScrOGs with plenty of different methodologies and just wondered if the group here could recommend any standouts who’ve been doing it with repeatably/consistently good results. Keep it positive, please!
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results will vary based on strain. Ive had good runs and bad runs. The best teacher is trail and error imo. Get some plants under a screen! Heres one of my old living soil runs, 4 plants of Cannarado Sticky Sundae (GG4 x Sundae Driver)
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Travis said:
Yep. That. That’s what I want, eventually!
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you can do it! that screen is made from a childhood roller hockey net and a roll of garden wire from the hardware store lol, no super special equipment or anything needed. Once you grow a scrog once or twice youll have it down.

One issue if you grow nug from seed like i do, is herms. one of the plants in that screen grew balls down low and pollinated a % of the nug. Now i strip more of the lowers or even crawl under there if my back is feeling okay and search for balls.
 
Things I never thought I’d have to do. The old lay on the back looking for balls trick. I’ll have to add it to my bag of tricks for the future - thanks for sharing! Great info, too!

I love that it’s a youth hockey net. We have one of those out in the garage and I just found a use for it! Do you think that net that comes with the AC Infinity kit would work? I also got that high CFM kit to brace the tent for negative pressure, and I’m guessing if I use the net right by the CFM kit, and with some mindful zip tie placement, I can probably get that thing taut enough to provide some decent support.
 
Travis said:
Things I never thought I’d have to do. The old lay on the back looking for balls trick. I’ll have to add it to my bag of tricks for the future - thanks for sharing! Great info, too!

I love that it’s a youth hockey net. We have one of those out in the garage and I just found a use for it! Do you think that net that comes with the AC Infinity kit would work? I also got that high CFM kit to brace the tent for negative pressure, and I’m guessing if I use the net right by the CFM kit, and with some mindful zip tie placement, I can probably get that thing taut enough to provide some decent support.
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hell yeah, anytime. 🤙ive seen so many home made net setups that work, i can imagine your idea and that sounds fantastic! Especially if you can get it tight. Most of the setups ive seen that required both a lower and higher net appeared to be because they were semi loose and didnt support the branches enough for just one layer
 
Madvillain said:
ive seen so many home made net setups that work, i can imagine your idea and that sounds fantastic! Especially if you can get it tight. Most of the setups ive seen that required both a lower and higher net appeared to be because they were semi loose and didnt support the branches enough for just one layer
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I bought one of the nets because I didn’t realize the kit came with one. I’d actually be considering another one of the CFM kits to be able to make a second one, if needed.
 
Travis said:
I bought one of the nets because I didn’t realize the kit came with one. I’d actually be considering another one of the CFM kits to be able to make a second one, if needed.
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Couple sticks of pvc and fittings, and hemp string in my 2X4. If you get the 4 way fittings for the top corners, you can do multiple layers. 20240817_194014.jpg
I will restring this one for smaller openings. These are 4" squares, but I wish they were smaller.
 
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Couple sticks of pvc and fittings, and hemp string in my 2X4. If you get the 4 way fittings for the top corners, you can do multiple layers.
I will restring this one for smaller openings. These are 4" squares, but I wish they were smaller.
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That's what I do with mine. My cage is on a pallet with casters so I can move it. So the pvc doesn't move, there is a block of wood L bracketed in place in each corner with a hole in it for the leg
 
this thread inspired me to dig up pics of my very first scrog from about 7 years ago. It was a single plant of Cannarado Topanga Lemon (Topanga OG x Lemon Tree) that i vegged for an insanely long time. I fimmed it and did a lot of LST when it was young and then put it under the screen to spread out and veg some more. It was really one of the best SCROGs ive ever done, yield wise, per-plant. i didnt realize how well that plant adapted to the screen, and the very dangerously cramped inner canopy that somehow didnt get mildew or worse. Im still bummed i didnt clone this one, and still dream of a FULL screen of that lemony deliciousness instead of just one plant. 5 gallons of amended FFOF. Dr earth and worm castings

also about the bottom, this was pre blur background feature on phones lol there was leaves everywhere and people on other forums were super weird about dirty grow areas so i spared myself the lecture.

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Cami99 said:
I only use the sea of green method for autos. The photos I grow get so big, the scrog method is the only answer.
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That’s what I think I like about the ScrOG method - the photos will grow so big (for anyone) that you can maximize return for a single seed, albeit at the cost of time. My plan involves 3 tents, each with a single plant at a different stage of the process (one veg, one flower, one harvest/dry), for a never ending supply. I wouldn’t move the plants, they’d stay in their own tents for the entire grow, I’d just have them staggered, temporally.
 
This thread sent me down memory lane! I now own a large and private piece of land and I grow outdoors, but I used to live in town and grew in a tiny closet under a tiny bulb. I consistently averaged about 1g/watt with this method. Several times I got more! With smaller watt bulbs, some form of training is essential IMO.
One problem with this method that has been alluded to in this thread (hidden male flowers, mold, bugs) but not stated out right is that once you start weaving plants into a trellis/screen, you're not going to be able to move them around until harvest. This is really only a problem in confined spaces. I found it helped to give each pot its own screen/trellis so that I could pull out individual plants to address/assess problems.
Air circulation above and below the screen is vital! Once your screen is mostly full, remove everything under it. One strain/grow. I found I got better results if my screen was bowl shaped. Wish I still had some of my old pics.
Good luck!
 
Mrs. Trouble said:
This thread sent me down memory lane! I now own a large and private piece of land and I grow outdoors, but I used to live in town and grew in a tiny closet under a tiny bulb. I consistently averaged about 1g/watt with this method. Several times I got more! With smaller watt bulbs, some form of training is essential IMO.
One problem with this method that has been alluded to in this thread (hidden male flowers, mold, bugs) but not stated out right is that once you start weaving plants into a trellis/screen, you're not going to be able to move them around until harvest. This is really only a problem in confined spaces. I found it helped to give each pot its own screen/trellis so that I could pull out individual plants to address/assess problems.
Air circulation above and below the screen is vital! Once your screen is mostly full, remove everything under it. One strain/grow. I found I got better results if my screen was bowl shaped. Wish I still had some of my old pics.
Good luck!
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Thank you!
 
Mrs. Trouble said:
One problem with this method that has been alluded to in this thread (hidden male flowers, mold, bugs) but not stated out right is that once you start weaving plants into a trellis/screen, you're not going to be able to move them around until harvest. This is really only a problem in confined spaces. I found it helped to give each pot its own screen/trellis so that I could pull out individual plants to address/assess problems.
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A pallet with casters. I have mine against a wall and when I need to trim I can reach most of it but can pull the pallet out when needed. A small block of wood with a hole in it screwed down into the pallet in each corner where the pvc legs go so I don't bump into it and send it flying
 
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