RickWhite
Well-Known Member
The single most productive way to grow is to grow plants only as long as needed to fill up your growing space. More short plants grown for a shorter length of time will create a low canopy and everything below that canopy is wasted growth. Therefore, the less sub-canopy growth you have the better. There is no way of getting light below the canopy. Trimming fan leaves is not a way to fix wasted growth space. Also, since light diminishes with the square of the distance, short plants expose a much greater percentage of their growth to strong light than do tall ones.
Regardless of where your light is situated, a canopy will form and this will be the only productive are of growth. Side lighting plants produces more wasted growth than top lighting as there will be more growth below the canopy. Lighting a cone from the side illuminates less of it than lighting it from the top. If you don't believe me, get a cone and a flashlight and try it.
Besides, a good short growth SOG yields buds in a much shorter period of time than a SCGOG with tall plants. Side by side, a perpetual SOG with short plants beats a SCROG hands down.
Think of it this way. If a SOG takes 13 weeks to harvest, the same SCROG will take an additional 4 or so weeks. After 3 of the SCROGs, you would be about ready to harvest your 4th SOG. And to make matters worse the SCROG will not yield more bud. Once you max out your canopy space, that is it. You can not possibly produce more.
No doubt about it, a good perpetual SOG with short bushy plants is the most effective way to grow.
Regardless of where your light is situated, a canopy will form and this will be the only productive are of growth. Side lighting plants produces more wasted growth than top lighting as there will be more growth below the canopy. Lighting a cone from the side illuminates less of it than lighting it from the top. If you don't believe me, get a cone and a flashlight and try it.
Besides, a good short growth SOG yields buds in a much shorter period of time than a SCGOG with tall plants. Side by side, a perpetual SOG with short plants beats a SCROG hands down.
Think of it this way. If a SOG takes 13 weeks to harvest, the same SCROG will take an additional 4 or so weeks. After 3 of the SCROGs, you would be about ready to harvest your 4th SOG. And to make matters worse the SCROG will not yield more bud. Once you max out your canopy space, that is it. You can not possibly produce more.
No doubt about it, a good perpetual SOG with short bushy plants is the most effective way to grow.
ok maybe two.