How to mainline and SCRoG at the same time?

As the title asks, how would you do it?
Is there any point to this at all?

I have done mainline/mainline with scrog/scrog. I found no benefit doing both at the same time. If you have no intention to scrog, mainline is quite a good method. I have chosen the scrog path as the yields are superior. It does take work at the beginning but worth it.

I ve been doing scrog for long enough, I think I ve almost mastered it by now. I was tempted by mainlining because of the more uniform buds

giannoulis said:

I ve been doing scrog for long enough, I think I ve almost mastered it by now. I was tempted by mainlining because of the more uniform buds

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Do the SCROG right and it does it even better. Start early. Don't be afraid to reweave either as branches grow.

giannoulis said:

I ve been doing scrog for long enough, I think I ve almost mastered it by now. I was tempted by mainlining because of the more uniform buds

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Any pics of this mastered SCROG?

I mainline but don't use a scrog, honestly I think it's just redundant and even blocks a little light. If you fill your canopy with bud sites, they really don't need any support until the final week or two. The mainlined buds are quite uniform, fewer budsites and you'll get larger colas (good for pics), more budsites and the colas will be smaller (good if you have issues with budrot). Yield is higher if you go with as many budsites as it takes to fill out your footprint.

I don't see the point in it.

I prefer mainline for the uniformity, air flow, mobility and mostly because of less work involved

All you're missing is a nice bubble bath, Whitney baby!

BodegaBud said:

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I have that knife! The blade of mine is all gunked up with resin.

Herb & Suds said:

Any pics of this mastered SCROG?

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Found it

Now to master feeding?

scrog is quicker and provides better support in late flower. Just can get annoying at harvest time if you weaved your plants all crazy.

Scrog was always my highest yeilds. But they would get so dam thick and I was thinning like mad. But still got so over crowed I’ve get a bunch of larf under the nice buds. I could pull 18oz out of my 3x3 pretty regularly. But about 3-5oz would be stuff that IMO was not getting enough light. Also known as the “here’s some free weed bro”. Lol.

Here is how I kinda mainline.
- grow to 6+ nodes tall
- top the plant just above the 3rd node
- cut off node 1 branches (great clones BTW)
- now you got 4 main branches making a semetric cross.
- I’ll grow them up to about 4+ nodes
Then top all 4 tops again.
- lollipop the nodes below your topping
- gives you 8 main colas. That I tie down to the edge of the container.
The whole plant grows up like a chandelier or a candle holder.

Plant gets long colas and great air flow and light penetration. Harvest is chopping 8 large branches. Easy

I run a bit of side lighting and I get long colas that are uniform buds from top to bottom.

yeild less weight but what I get is better quality and uniformity for sure.

Doing that in my 3x3 I get 10-14 Oz but it’s 95% ripe and mature bud. Very little “bro weed”

Here’s one’s I did in a 5gal Hempy

Holy Crispy Cornflakes

Yeah, I just mainlined for the first time and fell in love with the simplicity. Especially in coco, growth is fast and noticeable daily. Only reason to put a net up at this point is for support in late flower. Had a plant that was floppy with density!

Budzbuddha said:

Holy Crispy Cornflakes

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I sympathize with this. 2/3 of my plants got burned. Bud isn’t horrible or too harsh with a good high, but it looked far worse than it was. And I don’t know this strain

I’m the fucking worst at training, mostly because I tend to neglect it, got branches yoyo’d to the ceiling and shit think I’m gonna employ some trellis netting next time.

Mainline all the way, I like to grow variety of strains and with that there is very different growth rates and heights. I like to be able to move my plants around and adjust height on each plant to get an even canopy. Scrog is just so constrained

euphoria526 said:

Yeah, I just mainlined for the first time and fell in love with the simplicity. Especially in coco, growth is fast and noticeable daily. Only reason to put a net up at this point is for support in late flower. Had a plant that was floppy with density!

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Mine tend to get floppy as well...use a taller tomato cage (or stakes) and there is no more problem. I had to utilize yo-yos in my last grow and those fucking suck to me because I just eliminated the mobility of my plants.