My SCROG "Grow Cart" on wheels

This is my first grow ( I wish I could enter her in the state fair,lol ) and I grew her from a seedling to where she is now in my fire place of all places-see pic of her last day in fireplace. From the moment I heard the word SCROG and began researching it I knew that I wanted to try it despite it being my first grow. My whole mindset from the beginning was that this was the ultimate science project, lol. While researching I noted the various drawbacks to where a person does a scrog...if in closet difficult to get to back portion of scrog, if immobile difficult to leech (I think thats the word you know that finally drowning of the plant before you harvest, lol) as well as the consistent need to manicure the plant from all sides. Over the last six weeks of this grow I came up with the solution of what I fondly call my "Grow Cart". The one I made and that is pictured is designed for one plant in a very small closet. This is also a soil grow so I needed a way to remove and empty her drain pan without moving her so I gave myself room under the cart. Also to solve for the need to get to all sides of the cart to manicure, etc it has wheels so it can easily roll out of the closet. Plus I can roll her out to my patio/legal gardening area if you will to administer large quantities of water or place her in the very warm sun that is abundantly available year round.
I didnt want to buy a giant roll of chicken wire so I bought this long metal gate like thing that I took apart then meshed back together to form my screen. Now for me my roomate happens to be a wood hobbiest and has tons of power tools and can take anything I design and put it together so we had the wood and screws lying around etc so it was an easy one for me. We had so much fun that if any of you are interested in purchasing one, we were stones barones when we figured out how we could ship it in three easy to assemble pieces with pre-drilled screw holes and screws included with handy instructions with only 12 screws to insert for a fully assembled "Grow Cart" of your own LOL!!!!!!! and of course I would invest in the chicken wire for all your custom growing needs,lol. Okay one more puff...
BTW she is 6 1/2 weeks old...
So....here are some pics and I have the dimensions somewhere if anyone cares....peace and positivity...from a girl with a green thumb

Oh man thats such an aswome set up! I read about SCROGS after I already tarted to flower my gurl. But this looks like it has great potential! The plant itself looks very strong! Those leafs are perfectly horizontal and dont look to be dropped in any picture you have, nice job, ill be following!

And all cfl Robbie just like you!!!

nice grow man are you going to weave the plant through it or are you just tieing them down??


illl be watching , and also how long you going to keep the plants in veg for???

here is my grow journal no were near the health of your do they are medi bud https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/48802-hazyeyes-grow-journal-begin-end.html


Also what strain do you have there???

Lol, one Im a girl. Yes I am going to weave the plant through the screen and use tie downs as needed. Im hoping to veg for a few more weeks get her worked into my screen till its midway full then flip to flower. I randomly found two seeds in some couch coma killer kind bud, this one is the only one that came up. Definitely indica but other wise I just call her Elizabeth...

Well Elizabeth is very pretty and am sure you are to haha but i got 4 plant myself i think i may just tie some of mine down as well goood luck to you do if u need anything just ask.
are they under 24 or 18/6?

Beautiful!!!!!! Thats gonna be a nice little bitch when she is done

Thanks growininflorida!!

thank you hazy Im sure your a cutie too!!! She is 24....

Some background:
This is Elizabeth and I cant honestly remember through the couch coma high what strain she was from, etc but she was one of two seeds that I found in what I will fondly call yummy great kind bud. I germinated both seeds then transferred to soil. Elizabeth is the only one to come up and she did so roughly 2 weeks (Jan 2) after I got her under a desk lamp looking light that I actually put a flora bulb in for plants.

I had the flora bulb almost touching her and she got to about half her size, then 10 days later she upgraded to another light. Lol which a friend gave me after an ardous trip through lites at best I can describe this as a energy saving flood light that uses only 23 watts to put out 100 watts and has that curly bulb inside a case like a compact flora.

The small veg area is actually in my fireplace as you can see. I did what many of you say is a big no no in getting Elizabeth going, from the time she sprouted Jan 1 to Jan. 17 she was getting a really diluted mix of filtered (reverse osmosis sys) and miracle grow every 3 days the last on the 17th I was told not to give her (I call her, her just to think positive) about the 15th she begin yellowing a bit on the edges.
So with the miracle grow steroids it could have been a nitro burn, and Ive played with the lite position a couple times, for it to only get worse..

****My yellowing edges were heat totally heat!!! I had gotten so used to having a light so close to her but as she got bigger she really only liked the light to be about 5 inches from her longest leaf and the older she gets the further away she actually likes it…you can see that stretching has never been one of her problems so I do what she seems to like.****

On the 19th she moved to the big pot she is in now and I used Super Soil Potting for indoor .14-.09.-.02 I wanted to avoid a high feed soil. The filtered water ph is in the 6-6.2 range. The temp maybe a bit low in the fireplace at like 72-74 the humidity looks normal.

The pics are from Jan. 23 when she was having the burn tip issues, shown for reference for the heat burn and to show her size.

This is her on Feb 9 like 2 weeks after she started big grow.

Btw she has gotten to where she is with water, light, big grow and LOVE.....

My first post in the thread shows where she is as of Sunday. Its amazing how hard it is to find a fan in the winter even in the desert. But I finally found a fan yesterday and added it to her set up in the closet. She seems pretty happy considering the weekend of hell I gave her. Oh yeah and I have been misting her daily at least 1 with water week before last I added a few drops of big grow to my spray bottle also.

So I have to make a confession because I know it may help others learn....every now and then in the fireplace I would see some gnat like bug and I would kill them etc. with my hand. I notice that there were a few more but let myself ignore, then on Saturday night the day before the big move to the cart; there are like a cazillon of the damn gnats and there are little holes in some of my leaves, they are crawling in my soil..Im freaking out, its like 11pm I cant go get any neem oil and Im trippin hard on the bugs so run for some soap and a bottle. As I get to going wild with my soap (thats making me freak out also cuz I dont want to be spraying soap on her Im not fool I know she sucks up everything I put on her) Im mostly spraying the soil but then I notice that like black dots are coming up on some of the leaves and its the soapy water like making these spots and Im about to cry I just built this fucking cart and grown this amazing thing on my first try and I blow it all with fucking soap over some damn bugs. So I run to my laptop and search soapy water...some guy writes I found bugs I sprayed soapy water and my plant shriveled up and someone replied never do it in the sun.....the lump in my throat holding back my tears is huge by now thinking about this plant that I love so much shriveling up....so I load a bowl...chill...think...think....I decide that if I was stressed out and having the sun beating down on me (im running 24/7 lite) I would shrivel up, some peeps to 18/6...sooo..for the 1st time in her life I cut the lights. Set my alarm for 4am, woke up turned her on and she was all "wassup", "how you livin" and happy as ever no marks no shrivels nothing....amen.

Some of the damn bugs were still around and I wrote all day instead of getting to the hydro store to get neem oil so I actually picked up some Schultz Garden Safe Rose&Garden kills bugs on contact. So before I put her in the cart n closet I sprayed her down n the soil, watered her then gave her a good fresh misting all over of water.
NO BUGS.....NO DAMAGE.....all smiles....lol

looking good! I'm actually doing a SCROG for my next grow in a tiny cabinet. I'll start a thread once my girls arent seedlings anymore

Sounds like you had a close call.
Whew.
Hope all goes well in the new space with your coolio cart.
GG

Thanks GG!! its funny you mention my close call because I was just about to post a followup to the soap incident. It appears that the few leaves I touched with the soap (mostly around the bottom) and the leaves of some of my potential future clones got jacked up pretty bad. Really only exactly where the soap hit them. Their stems to the plant are really strong and the other parts of look quite good....

UESTION: when I go to clone should I avoid these guys I soap burned even though they have other branches or nodes I guess that are great,etc. The soap burn doesnt appear to be killing the whole leaf just where it burned. Im not going to rip these bad lower leaves right now I feel like Ive jacked with her enough...at least this is the only major stress ive caused her....I welcome your answers!!!

I would say that the dead leafs off no point inthem being there i think they even may hurt the plant in the long run ,,,, and yes its ok to take clones from that plant just take clones from the healthy part of the plant good luck
and happy growing

hazy not to micro questions but say if there are five leaves and two are bad take the whole five or the two???

i would take them off if they were Dead and i mean dead dead or if there is little chance of survival.

but this is what i would do its your plant do as u wish i am not professional.

blaze all day
every day

thanks for your input I do value it!!