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Ok, first set of pics were no good. So after a quick photo lesson my helpful family member got the pics I was looking for.
This is a tangerine dream. If she were upright, she'd be about 5ft tall. She's been topped once, then bent 90 degrees. Garden tape attached at the Y of the two tops. The white post it's attached to is called a step-in post. It has one spike that holds it in the ground. Because it's a one spike post, it can be spun...and the garden tape can be reeled in or out as needed.
Then the side branches are being trained out and the tips kept low for now while the now exposed inner branches get established. Once the center fills out some we will keep things as even as possible.
We used these 12"x12" metal grid panels as anchors. With a medium sized rock on top they are plenty heavy. They do not block water or air, and they don't disturb the soil in any way. You can add, move and remove them as needed.
Of course this is an outdoor thing. Well....I guess you could put a grid on top of a pot, secure it, let the plant grow up through, then tie things down. Bah. SCROG is better for indoor.
Here is a top down showing the whole thing. She's in rapid growth mode, and has probably 5 weeks of veg left before transition. I'm glad I asked for this pic. I can see we need to add a 5th panel at the 4-5 o'clock position to pull the right top away from the rest
2 other plants look similar to the above. A 4th plant is going to be left to it's own devices, and the 5th is going to get spider trained like above....soon.
EDIT: I just realized that she looks rather bushy in the pics, like shes domed. But she's actually rather pancake-ish. Round but relatively flat.
This is a tangerine dream. If she were upright, she'd be about 5ft tall. She's been topped once, then bent 90 degrees. Garden tape attached at the Y of the two tops. The white post it's attached to is called a step-in post. It has one spike that holds it in the ground. Because it's a one spike post, it can be spun...and the garden tape can be reeled in or out as needed.
Then the side branches are being trained out and the tips kept low for now while the now exposed inner branches get established. Once the center fills out some we will keep things as even as possible.
We used these 12"x12" metal grid panels as anchors. With a medium sized rock on top they are plenty heavy. They do not block water or air, and they don't disturb the soil in any way. You can add, move and remove them as needed.
Of course this is an outdoor thing. Well....I guess you could put a grid on top of a pot, secure it, let the plant grow up through, then tie things down. Bah. SCROG is better for indoor.
Here is a top down showing the whole thing. She's in rapid growth mode, and has probably 5 weeks of veg left before transition. I'm glad I asked for this pic. I can see we need to add a 5th panel at the 4-5 o'clock position to pull the right top away from the rest
2 other plants look similar to the above. A 4th plant is going to be left to it's own devices, and the 5th is going to get spider trained like above....soon.
EDIT: I just realized that she looks rather bushy in the pics, like shes domed. But she's actually rather pancake-ish. Round but relatively flat.
I gotta tell ya too... I'm terribly impressed by you... More and more as time goes by... You really are "that" guy.....
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off on the edge getting quietly looped and watching the fun. 
