lucagrow73
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I've just started new cultivation and I would like to know if anyone has experience with SCROG: does it really work?
Is SCROG technique really working for cannabis cultivation?
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Hello my friend hope your are well.
Check this thread see what happens with out a scrog.
Stay safe
Bill
This is what happens
This is my first grow. Before I started I put in hours and hours of reading. I have a 2x2x4 tent (biggest the wife would agree to) and asked on forums how many plants. I got answers 1 or 2, so decided on 2. I also read up on scrog'ing and LST. I went with tie-down LST only, after seeing what I...
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Here is one on how too and why
SCROG: Why you want to do it and how, a Faic attempt
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Vegan4life
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It definitely works! Bill284 put a good link for you above for a tutorial. 
Of course it works if the screen is built properly and the plant is trained to take advantage of the placement of the screen.
My opinion is to avoid using string unless it can be pulled tight. I have noticed a lot of 'ScrOG' screens being built with loose string or even bungee cords which often ends up looking like the plant is controlling the canopy.
There are good points and bad about building and using a ScrOG. A few good links have already been mentioned. Read through those links to get an idea of what to expect. One of the members, @Tokin Roll, has been working on at least one journal involving using a ScrOG method of training.
Thank you @SmokingWings and I agree.
Most of the nets I see are more on the order of SoG (Sea of Green) not Scrog Screen of Green.
For it to be a scrog grow the plant has to be manipulated under the screen to grow across the screen as much as possible before it starts the vertical growth of the buds/cola's.
The manipulation entails bending, tucking, directing the branches in the direction you want them to grow, and anything else the make and keep an event canopy.
I will included a couple images to show you how I scrog. The images were taken over a couple hour period on the same day.
This is what she looked like the other day. The canopy is now about 8 to 10 inches above the net.
It's not hard to learn.
Hope this helps.
Tok..
Most of the nets I see are more on the order of SoG (Sea of Green) not Scrog Screen of Green.
For it to be a scrog grow the plant has to be manipulated under the screen to grow across the screen as much as possible before it starts the vertical growth of the buds/cola's.
The manipulation entails bending, tucking, directing the branches in the direction you want them to grow, and anything else the make and keep an event canopy.
I will included a couple images to show you how I scrog. The images were taken over a couple hour period on the same day.
This is what she looked like the other day. The canopy is now about 8 to 10 inches above the net.
It's not hard to learn.
Hope this helps.
Tok..
Here is an older image of Green Crack just before harvest.
I hope this answers your question.
Stay safe, and grow well my friend,
Tok..
I hope this answers your question.
Stay safe, and grow well my friend,
Tok..
Now that is what I call a SCROGHere is an older image of Green Crack just before harvest.
I hope this answers your question.
Stay safe, and grow well my friend,
Tok..
Scrog appears to work very well to train out a full flat canopy. I built a scrog for my first grow, didn’t really fill it out fully. For me watering was a pain in my 3x3’ cabinet, down on my knees with a long funnel and watering can. One day I decided the scrog wasn’t really needed for that grow and feed the plants. Now I pull plants to my workbench for trim, LST and a look over. I’m a pretty lazy organic soil grower, with limited water/dry cycles in my 5 gallon pots. Pics from my first grow, a GSC, with and without scrog. For max yield I think a scrog is the way to go. Cheers
Renaissance Man
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I'll be setting up my first scrog net in about 2 weeks. Last grow was mostly HST.
Unlike outside, where the sky is the limit and ole sol is the most powerful grow light, us indoor growers have limited space for our buds to grow, height, width, and depth. So, we try and pack as many bud stalks into that space as possible given we give them enough room to breathe and provide air flow or we can get mold. Most of my grows have used the scrog to spread the stalks out and provide support. Some say this is not really scrogging. I intend to do more real scrogging on my current and future grows. Changes to my grow area will make this easier to accomplish.
Our favorite plant grows with a dominant stalk, with side branching. If we make the dominant stalk grow horizontally then all those side branches think they can be the dominant stalk and shoot for the sun/light. If we then in turn make those grow horizontally, all their side branches think they can be dominant. This continues until, you think you have enough to fill the whole cubic area; height, width, and depth.
For me the Art of the scrog is knowing when you have filled the screen enough. I say this because our special plants don't all behave the same way when the light cycle is flipped for flowering. Some strains don't grow very much taller when they start to flower, other strains double or more in height or stretch when flowered. If you grow one of these strains, you may find your space too full for adequate ventilation and the light doesn't penetrate to the lower buds on the stalks. So you have to partially fill the screen and then flip the light, and keep filling or making the stalks grow horizontally until the screen is sufficiently full to let it go vertical.
Our favorite plant grows with a dominant stalk, with side branching. If we make the dominant stalk grow horizontally then all those side branches think they can be the dominant stalk and shoot for the sun/light. If we then in turn make those grow horizontally, all their side branches think they can be dominant. This continues until, you think you have enough to fill the whole cubic area; height, width, and depth.
For me the Art of the scrog is knowing when you have filled the screen enough. I say this because our special plants don't all behave the same way when the light cycle is flipped for flowering. Some strains don't grow very much taller when they start to flower, other strains double or more in height or stretch when flowered. If you grow one of these strains, you may find your space too full for adequate ventilation and the light doesn't penetrate to the lower buds on the stalks. So you have to partially fill the screen and then flip the light, and keep filling or making the stalks grow horizontally until the screen is sufficiently full to let it go vertical.
Emilya Green
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I used to SCROG, back in the days of fluorescent grow lights, because that was the only way to get enough light to my plants. During a good month of the grow, I would spend at least an hour in my tent every night, tucking and weaving all the growth under the screen. Now, with the deep penetration of LED lights and new techniques in training, in my opinion there is no longer a need to put that much work into a grow.
2 plant scrog. Really wasn't that much work.
