Aero808
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Hi there, 1st time grower here. My 3 girls are 50 days from seed and my screen is about half full. They are all Indica's. Wondering if I'm ready to flip to flower? What do you think?
Cheers!
Cheers!
Is my Scrog ready to flip to 12/12?
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Well, my instinctive response is, "It's difficult to think of that as a SCROG when you've got so much greenery under the screen." I'd have been removing most of that as it appeared, lol, other than that which appeared likely to soon attempt to grow through the screen (and to encourage more of it). Also, I don't see any evidence of you having had the top of the plant start through the screen, pull it back under and send it through a more distant hold (that it would only just barely reach through) and rinse/lather/repeat, causing the plant to produce more and more branches at the screen level as it attempted to get something closer to the light. It almost looks like the Anti-SCROG.
I don't mean any of the above in a mean way; it's just what went through my head when I looked at your images. When I did, I also saw that you're growing multiple plants. That will, I suppose, compensate somewhat for the lack of growth per plant (but is pretty foreign to me as I have always followed a "one plant per screen" rule).
The plants look healthy (other than seeming to be a little on the small side for 50 days of growth), and I'm sure you'll get a harvest. And you'll do so even if you end up with gaps in the canopy. If, on the other hand, you let the grow space become overgrown, you'll probably have issues (and if one of them can only be dealt with by removing a big chunk of healthy mass when you're deep into the flowering phase, my guess is that the experience would make you unhappy - it's happened to me before
). Therefore, if you're not sure of your strain (and the specific phenotype(s) you're growing), it's growth patterns/rate, and how it reacts to the light that you have available... It's better to err on the "underfull" side, IMHO.
Plants on the indica end of the range don't stretch as much as plants on the sativa end do. But they'll still generally do so for the first 40% of the flowering period, so you'll still have some filling in during that stretch phase. I want to say that you could go ahead and switch your light schedule now (and you can, of course, but...), however you might still be able to turn it into a classic SCROG grow.
How close is that grid to the tops of your containers? Would you be able to lower it enough to be able to get those branches up to it and spread them out a bit, but still have room to get your hands/arms under there in order to train the growth? (And are the plants flexible enough for this to be feasible?) In the vegetative phase, with a SCROG grow, the aim is to create as close to a "flat" canopy as you can. It's also nice to end up with a tip just poking up through each hole. But the stretch will allow you to continue with that for a time (although you'll want some upward growth, too, during the stretch, and if you wait too long to let the (presumably) dozens of them head upwards, you could end up with little or no real "bud material" sticking up above that grid).
I don't mean any of the above in a mean way; it's just what went through my head when I looked at your images. When I did, I also saw that you're growing multiple plants. That will, I suppose, compensate somewhat for the lack of growth per plant (but is pretty foreign to me as I have always followed a "one plant per screen" rule).
The plants look healthy (other than seeming to be a little on the small side for 50 days of growth), and I'm sure you'll get a harvest. And you'll do so even if you end up with gaps in the canopy. If, on the other hand, you let the grow space become overgrown, you'll probably have issues (and if one of them can only be dealt with by removing a big chunk of healthy mass when you're deep into the flowering phase, my guess is that the experience would make you unhappy - it's happened to me before
). Therefore, if you're not sure of your strain (and the specific phenotype(s) you're growing), it's growth patterns/rate, and how it reacts to the light that you have available... It's better to err on the "underfull" side, IMHO.Plants on the indica end of the range don't stretch as much as plants on the sativa end do. But they'll still generally do so for the first 40% of the flowering period, so you'll still have some filling in during that stretch phase. I want to say that you could go ahead and switch your light schedule now (and you can, of course, but...), however you might still be able to turn it into a classic SCROG grow.
How close is that grid to the tops of your containers? Would you be able to lower it enough to be able to get those branches up to it and spread them out a bit, but still have room to get your hands/arms under there in order to train the growth? (And are the plants flexible enough for this to be feasible?) In the vegetative phase, with a SCROG grow, the aim is to create as close to a "flat" canopy as you can. It's also nice to end up with a tip just poking up through each hole. But the stretch will allow you to continue with that for a time (although you'll want some upward growth, too, during the stretch, and if you wait too long to let the (presumably) dozens of them head upwards, you could end up with little or no real "bud material" sticking up above that grid).
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Aero808
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Thanks for the response. The "anti-scrog"? Haha. I gave the girls a good trim this morning and think I'll wait it out another week and decide from there.
The net is 11 inches from the base of the plants, I can't drop it any lower, as my air intake prevents me from doing so. I have been training the plants under the net on a daily basis. I think there was just so much underneath that you couldn't tell.
The net is 11 inches from the base of the plants, I can't drop it any lower, as my air intake prevents me from doing so. I have been training the plants under the net on a daily basis. I think there was just so much underneath that you couldn't tell.
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How about some updated pics. Would love to see how you are making out.
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Aero808
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They are looking good so far.
Looking good. Four or five weeks to go, seems to take forever.
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Thanks man. The problems just started cropping up this week. Hoping I addressed them by flushing and pull through to harvest.
Not sure about the flush in soil but sure want to know if it solves your issues. I am growing in water and a flush is an almost instant solve for most problems.
