Screen of Green (SCROG) technique calls for training plants using trellis netting. The netting holds all the flowers upright.
Check out an expert SCROG garden sent to us from @jhowsmon92:
Last week Ed Rosenthal and I were chatting about this very subject and we thought it would be an opportune subject for a GN Poll. @memberdirectory: do you train your plants with trellis netting? Take the poll below and let’s have a chat about SCROG. What are your thoughts about SCROG? Is trellising a waste of time or a time saver?
Do you SCROG?
- I SCROG my crops
- I do not SCROG
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I’ll fire this conversation off with my two cents: To SCROG is a waste of time. Grow stronger plants. That’s just my opinion but I would love to hear yours!
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I use it outdoors and it saves lots of time staking. We do full sun full season so there are 12-15ft tall plants that can’t support bud weight in fall. But overall i find that plants will yield more if there is ample support to the growth structure. Heavy indica’s outdoors rarely need it, but a hybrid or large sativa will. I usually do two layers one at about 4ft to get the small plant stable and then another during budding over the top of the plant in late Aug, the plant grows an extra foot during the budding season and ends up growing nicely through and supporting itself with little work. We literally throw the net over the top and walk away doesn’t even need to be tied up, they work their way through all by themselves. Very strain specific indoors i’d guess. Trainwreck for example… you simply can’t grow it without support, thin little branches and large buds it was bred for indoor i suppose because that strain outdoors is just lying on the ground needs tons of staking and netting.
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You can still do SCROG and grow big and strong plants .Two layers of netting , the first one early in veg after heavy stripping to support the structure , second layer on first or second week of flowering. The second netting is going over the plants , we try to lower it as much as possible pressing it over the colas 1/3 below the plants height without breaking them , after that we just pull and train the pressed colas . If they are not too big u can go with just one layer early in flowering , the layer can be height enough so u can go under it to do stripping , but later in the flower the small stems they will fall on the ground , and you cant do a lot about it , just leave it .
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Hey Nick,
Outdoors,
I SCROG to super or Monster Crop. It’s definitely strain and situationally-dependent but vertical growth can limit exposure to light as the buds digress down the stems. As plants are photosynthetic, they grow better when exposed to more light so I train the stems to grow laterally and I’ve seen significant increases in output as the would-be “lesser” bud sites stand up and grow as golf-ball-to-grenade-sized nugs where they would have been just airy larf otherwise. However, if you have a densely packed room full of donkey-dick main-stems, you’ll fill the canopy with those instead which is the overall goal.
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