12 plant, 1200 watt SCrog

I set up my 12 plant scrog today under my 2 600s. using 2x3 inch screening and plants are just about to hit the bottom of the screen, only about 2 weeks old and they are about 12 inches tall. got 8 strawberry coughs and 4 blueberries. pics soon.

sounds like what I want to do...definantly get pics sounds badass

yeah im pumped. i just cropped 3 white widow girls, got about 9 ounces but i just grew them normally. ive seen what a scrog can do if done correctly and i am really looking forward to the kinda yeilds it will produce. its a 9x5 screen with 12 plants in 2 1/2 gallon pots, ebb and flow system. i am hoooking up co2 next week. im ganna veg the screen halfway to 3/4 the way and then flip. i just topped all of them 2 days ago too so they will branch out well. im an looking to have every screen hole with a budsite in it. CANT WAIT!

ya sounds like a good plan im hoping to do the same kind of setup in the near future. Its ridiculous the yeilds you can get with a scrog. !2 clones man your gona have a badass harvest... make sure you don't switch to 12/12 to late and run out of room for the buds on the screen. I would say when the screen is 60% full not 75% like you said. ANyways get some pics

yeah i was shooting for 50-75. i will pick the right day u know. it all depends on how the girls are. the 2 back rows are 60sativa/40 indica. the front blues are 60indica/40 sativa. but im not worried they wil fill out nicely.

pictures please

i need to see this setup

pics tonight

what is scrog?

google it.. screen of green. its a method for growing multiple plants small and flowering early. good for tight spaces

thenextlevel said:

google it.. screen of green. its a method for growing multiple plants small and flowering early. good for tight spaces

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correct by name, but the method is of actually using bigger plants under a screen. instead of growing vertically they grow horizontally. you veg for a longer period to fill the screen but in the end are returned with colas in every hole of the screen if done right. your thinking of a sea of green where short plants are grown to produce one top cola. scrog produces many many many top colas per plant via topping etc. heres some okay pics i got tonight. i didnt wanna roll up the flap so i just kinda ducked in the room and took a few pics.

I am almost 2 weeks into flower on my ScrOG. I have 3 plants under a 400W HPS on a tiny 2X2 screen. I think I may have switched over a little bit too soon and overestimated the stretch. I still have 10-15 budsites on each of my Great White Sharks and 20-25 on my random sativa. The way it's looking so far, ScrOG is going to treat me right. Good luck with it. Oh, and start a grow journal! Besides valuablevariable's little grow box ScrOG, it is a method that is not well represented on this site.

S-Town

how much did u let ur screen fill b4 u flipped. i agree i tried to find as much info as i can on scrog on RIU but couldnt find much real detail that i wasnt aware of yet. glad to find another person is going at it. i figured it will give me a better yeild than just normally growing them, why not give it a shot? plus training them will be fun. oh yes did u let the main stem grow through the top and then start weaving? or did u start to bend it below the screen and let the top hit the bottom and bend?

billybob,

I am a first time grower, and first time ScrOGer, so I am being dragged along by the seat of my pants. My circumstances are a little bit tough, as I have two little indica/sativa hybrids and a pretty much full sativa. To make things more complicated, the Sativa had about two months of veg, and the little ones only had a month. To make things work, I dedicated half of the screen to the Sativa, and half to the two Great White Sharks. I have the GWS elevated on books.

I topped all of them when they hit the screen, so they started pushing up all of those lower budsites. I have been trying not to weave very much, as it seems to be more effective for me to keep them under the screen. When they grow too much, I just move everything over a little bit so that no bud takes leaves another in the shadows. I did, however, probably go to 12/12 too soon. I became very paranoid about the stretch, and didn't want over growth.

As far as how much to fill before switching, I would say that it depends greatly on what straing you're growing. Do you have experience with it? Do you know how much it will stretch? Can you find out? If it is a stretchy strain, you should go to 12/12 very early. If it isn't, give them plenty of time to fill up. Training isn't hard, and really isn't nearly as labor intensive as I had thought it would be. Predicting the stretch seems to be the difficult part. I am still praying for more growth, but still have about 35 budsites right at the canopy to fall back on.

I hope it all turns out well, and happy ScrOGing! Check out my grow journal if you have time; I have been flowering for a little over two weeks, and they are starting to look gorgeous. I am going to update it very soon, as I have done a lot of shifting around since the last one, so keep an eye out. And if in the next couple of weeks, it looks like it didn't work out for me, ignore all of my advice.

S-Town

thanks for a detailed response bro that helps me out alot. i am growing DP blueberry(80 indica/20sativa. and strawberry cough (75 indica/25sativa). yes a big variety in the scrog but im up for the challenge. i have plenty of height to work with so im not worried about the stretch to much. i have about 4 feet above my lights to work with. the strawberries have 2/3rd the screen while the blues have 1/3rd. should work fine in a 9x5 screen i think. im ganna shoot to have at least 75 percent of the holes with a budsite in each. i just topped them right b4 they hit the screen like u said. im pulling the tops back down into the screen now and running them to open spots in the screen. i have a 250w mh im not using. think i should throw it in there with the 2 600 hps's? couldnt hurt eh?

hey nice grow im usin 2 600 watters on 1 plant and 2 cfls wanna see the results?

sure, why only one plant? thats alot of overkill.

well i started with 4 1 just didnt take and 2 males poped up overkill maybe but shes a bush for it oh and what a yield i will get =)

That sounds like a cool plan.
I never venture into the advanced growing methods here but I have heard of the sog and scrog method.
Whats the difference. Is a sog the same idea but just smaller than a scrog?

I saw pics of this guys plant and he had taken off the bottom branches which forced the plant to put out all its energy into the top buds.
It looked really impressive and I have been interested in the idea since.

I think adding the 250 MH would be a killer idea because from what I have been reading the added blue spectrum from the MH gives denser buds in the end but not bigger.

billybob88 said:

thanks for a detailed response bro that helps me out alot. i am growing DP blueberry(80 indica/20sativa. and strawberry cough (75 indica/25sativa). yes a big variety in the scrog but im up for the challenge. i have plenty of height to work with so im not worried about the stretch to much. i have about 4 feet above my lights to work with. the strawberries have 2/3rd the screen while the blues have 1/3rd. should work fine in a 9x5 screen i think. im ganna shoot to have at least 75 percent of the holes with a budsite in each. i just topped them right b4 they hit the screen like u said. im pulling the tops back down into the screen now and running them to open spots in the screen. i have a 250w mh im not using. think i should throw it in there with the 2 600 hps's? couldnt hurt eh?

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billybob88 said:

thanks for a detailed response bro that helps me out alot. i am growing DP blueberry(80 indica/20sativa. and strawberry cough (75 indica/25sativa). yes a big variety in the scrog but im up for the challenge. i have plenty of height to work with so im not worried about the stretch to much. i have about 4 feet above my lights to work with. the strawberries have 2/3rd the screen while the blues have 1/3rd. should work fine in a 9x5 screen i think. im ganna shoot to have at least 75 percent of the holes with a budsite in each. i just topped them right b4 they hit the screen like u said. im pulling the tops back down into the screen now and running them to open spots in the screen. i have a 250w mh im not using. think i should throw it in there with the 2 600 hps's? couldnt hurt eh?

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I think you are definitely well researched and ready to go. Just keep training, and you will get something beautiful. I think your ScrOG is going to leave people speechless if you get it done well. I would top them when they hit the screen, and get them branching out as coon as possible. You can start thinking about flowering at about 70% I suppose. And also, getting them to stretch a little bit (pre-flowering) is not a terrible thing if you want to pull your lights back for a couple days. It can be really hard to separate budsites if the internodes are really short. Good luck!

S-Town