Single hempy pot with screen experiment

[BigBudsBunny]

Usually I just leave the plats alone, sometimes top, sometimes lst. I have been wanting to try this for years but have not grown in years so finally decided to test it out to see what happens now that I'm back at it. This is a clone from a mother plant I gave away to a neighbor. I grow hempy pot style and always have. The clone is inn a 2 gal bucket. I mounted some garden stakes ad a screen(fence) with some plastic zips for stability and voila - a single bucket screen hopefully to keep the emerging bud points to stay at same canopy level. Don't know we'll see.

 

[SmokingWings]

I mounted some garden stakes ad a screen(fence) with some plastic zips for stability and voila - a single bucket screen hopefully to keep the emerging bud points to stay at same canopy level. Don't know we'll see.

I built similar screens for ScrOG plants several years ago. I still have a couple left and will try to get a few photos later today of one of them.

A separate screen for each plant makes everything so much easier. The plant can be taken out of the tent for maintenance or inspection or special care because of a problem. Way to often growers will mention that they plant cannot be turned around for inspection or maintenance because it has grown or been woven through the screen or netting which is attached to the corner tent poles.

 

[BigBudsBunny]

I built similar screens for ScrOG plants several years ago. I still have a couple left and will try to get a few photos later today of one of them.

A separate screen for each plant makes everything so much easier. The plant can be taken out of the tent for maintenance or inspection or special care because of a problem. Way to often growers will mention that they plant cannot be turned around for inspection or maintenance because it has grown or been woven through the screen or netting which is attached to the corner tent poles.

Exactly - which is why I did it...lol. Learned from a problem I had when doing Deep Water Culture buckets that were all connected together to a reservoir. How did your bucket scrogs work out for ya?

 

[SmokingWings]

They worked out in the cabinet I was growing in at the time. I was able to get one stack of buds per opening so was able to fill the screen. I made the screen out of a roll of garden fencing someone threw out and the legs out of the wire used for political lawn signs. Dimensions were to match that size of Kitty Litter bucket (5 gallons) and the wire legs pushed all the way down. When I bought the tent I stopped using them.

Below are a couple of photos. For whatever reason the sites' software decided to change the 'portrait' orientation of the one photo to 'landscape' which was not the way I had uploaded it.

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• SmokingWings
• Aug 20, 2024
• bucket scrog scrog

Single bucket with its own ScrOG.

bucket-scrog01.jpg

• SmokingWings
• Aug 20, 2024
• bucket scrog scrog

Single bucket with its own ScrOG.

 

[BigBudsBunny]

abandoned...everywhere the plant touched the wire - it got burned (under led) so abandoned the project.

 

[SmokingWings]

How far away are the lights from the screen?

abandoned...everywhere the plant touched the wire - it got burned (under led) so abandoned the project.

I did not notice anything like that with my screens and I only use LED lights. At the time I was interested in doing SCRoG training was also when I was flowering in a cabinet with 4 foot of clearance. Often the top of the canopy was only about 6 inches from the lights. And, by the time the stretch finished along with all bending of the plants being over with it might have been only 4 inches away.

I started thinking that maybe it was something on the wire, like maybe a paint or coating, but I have used wire fencing like what I see in your photo and have not noticed any problem.

Maybe your lights are too strong and heating up the wire. Keeps getting interesting trying to think of what was happening.

 

[BigBudsBunny]

Not sure why - not that much heat from leds, was plenty far away, but left marks as if burned. I can't take a pic of it cause that plant was moved over to flower.