Have I filled out my SCROG?

[d42zero]

Hi,

I did my first SCROG last grow (can see pics in my journal linked below).. it went well, but I didn't quite 'fill the screen' all the way. Yield was about 350g from 630w of light. This time around I've decided to give the girls an extra week or two in veg, but I also have a third plant this time (vs. two last time) so that's changed things a little bit.

Last grow I flipped at 42 days, this grow is now at 49 days. Screen currently looks like this:

I'm moving branches every one or two days, just trying to keep things as close to the same height as possible.

The tutorial I've been using (LBH's LST/SCROG tute) is really good for the first half of veg, but gets a little vague from here. My plan is:

• Keep training and keeping the canopy level until the plants have pretty much filled the screen (which I feel like is about now, maybe give them another few days?)
• Once the screen is full, stop training daily and give them another week or so for the colas to reach about 8" above the screen
• Trim all the bud sites from below the screen
• Do a little final training to level it out properly
• Flip

Does that sound like a reasonable plan?

 

[Nunyabiz]

Depending in the cultivar and how it stretches and the height of your space you may not want to even go 8" beyond the SCROG.
but sounds like a good plan to me.

 

[Nunyabiz]

We're doing about the same, I've always done 2 plants, but this grow I've squeezed in an extra small pot for 3 plants.
In a 2x5 space.
I am right at 28 days I think.
SCROG will be soon.
I usually veg for 60 days give or take about 5 days with two plants, 3 might take a week off that.
Iam going for 75 colas if I can squeeze it.

 

[d42zero]

Thanks for the tips, I originally wrote 6-8" but changed it to 8 They're probably about 4" at the moment so maybe not much longer to go. I kept things as low as possible, I can lift the lights by about 2 feet and they're a good 18-20" from the lights already, hopefully that's enough.

My space is 1500x800 which I think is 5x2.5 or so..

Do you have a previous journal where I can look at how big yours were and how they turned out? If so could you post a link? I can't find a list of your threads, only your individual posts..

 

[Nunyabiz]

Most of my grows the past 5 years are on my one grow journal, I just keep adding to the same one.
I've got a few more days before I lay the SCROG over this one.

 

[d42zero]

Ohhh I didn't realise, thought that was just your current grow! I'll have a proper read through it tomorrow, just looking for a couple of pictures of when you flipped so I can get a rough idea

 

[Nunyabiz]

Most of the time I try to flip when they are probably 3 to 6 inches above the SCROG , I've had a couple oddballs because one plant might be a bit smaller than the other and I am trying to slow down the one while the other catches up.
Thats usually an exercise in futility

 

[SoGnotSOG321]

Thumbs up bruh

 

[JD Green]

Most of the time I try to flip when they are probably 3 to 6 inches above the SCROG , I've had a couple oddballs because one plant might be a bit smaller than the other and I am trying to slow down the one while the other catches up.
Thats usually an exer

so true

 

[Jeremy6232]

That's a fine looking scrog just leave yourself enough space for the stretch like he was saying don't go to high trying to get one or two extra colas that's stepping over the dime to get the penny.

 

[d42zero]

Thanks for the tips guys! I ended up flipping a little bit late, maybe a week or so.. by that time the longest were almost bang on a foot above the screen. I had to trim one cola as it was getting within 300mm of the light, but it'll be interesting to see what happens to the secondaries on that one...

I've ended up with a lot more growth than I had planned:

The photo shows quite well how dark it is down low.. I'm going to give them one more defoliation to open things up and they'll be on the home stretch.

Expecting the lower stuff that's in the shade to be pretty average, there's a fair few little colas down there that haven't flowered at all yet, as opposed to the top stuff that's already showing white pistils and lots of trichs. I think I'm going to leave that lower stuff though.. in one of my early grows I did a two-stage harvest and that worked pretty well, so I might do that here if the lower stuff isn't ready when the top stuff is.

 

[d42zero]

For interest's sake I thought I'd post another photo that I just found... here's how big they were at flip:

I did a terrible job of levelling them out this time around, I'll definitely work harder on that next time. I still haven't quite figured out how to properly fill a screen but I read something in a tutorial like "It's just something you have to learn by trial and error" and I guess I'd agree with that