Accidental big yield technique, vertical growing, but not exactly ?

Have noticed this a few times when removing my scrog net and letting the branches flop about for an extra week while I start chopping others. Makes no difference to the actual smoke, just the shape of the buds.
Fair play to the OP great results.

davillains said:

hello everyone,
I got 14oz from one plant in a 2.5x2.5 tent and 280w Led light, the details with video & harvest pictures are on this thread: http://rollitup.org/t/massive-blue-dream-hso.957438/

All branches had to be supercropped to accomodate the plant's height inside the tent, the result was all buds laid down horizontally gained massive beef probably from the equal light distance. I've made a quick/dirty drawing below to illustrate:

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Could this be a new canopy management thing ? Has anyone tried supercropping the canopy to this end ?

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I grew some apple pie from reeferman years ago and she was all sativa. I ended up putting her in the corner because she stretched so much and I laid her horizontayl in early flower. All the branches turned up by the 4th week with proper support. It was not ideal but it solved my 8' sativa problem with 7' ceilings. Pretty amazing how this plant adapts to the environment.

The issue for me is that if you are topping enough times and filling the net you would not have space or need to lay any buds down. If you under fill the net by accident then I guess this is a possible technique to use up more light?.

Uncle ben use to do a similar technique with a single topped plant. As the 4 colas weighted up they bent over by themselves allowing light to penetrate deeper into the plant. It's obviously an older technique since you can get better more consistent yield with multiple topped scrog. But you know, still a cool trick for back then.

I tried something when CFL lighting became cheap/subsidised. It involved making football/rugby ball shaped structures out of chicken wire and trying to scrog around them. Went terribly but future hps grows went better Started with normal scrog (pulling about 16oz off 4 plants in a 250MH veg, 600HPS flower consistantley despite temp problems). Then I had to downsize so did a U-scrog, pulled about-5 oz off a plant under a 250 in a very limited head-space. Finally, I did a normal vertical scrog in the same pace and pulled around six oz. I haven't grown weed for a few years but when i grow again, it will be a vertical scrog, probably starting 250 hps, working up to 400, then a cooltube to finish.
A few points with vertical scrog.
At stretch, you will be pulling branches back behind the screen almost daily.
You get more buds but smaller. More trimming etc. Less sticks in your weed though.
Personally, I've found that even if the bulb is dropped right down below the middle of the scrog, the buds still head upwards.

MichiganMedGrower said:

I pinch and bend or lst and tie down branches to keep my bushes 30” or less tall.

The branch on the left was super cropped with the pinch method and bent down parallel to the floor.

Each bud grows back up towards the light and the calyx connected.

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how long do you veg for???

Porky101 said:

how long do you veg for???

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Sorry I was away for a bit. I vegged that plant about 5 weeks.

I don’t care what it looks like, 14 zips in a small tent, with little light! Bravo ! That is a amazing yield!