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well first off i would use a tote rather then pots more plants dont mean more yield so what you can do is make some kinbd of like TV dinner tray rather then top being a solid piece make it like a scrog tble now place the legs in the for corners of the tote and its easily can be moved you understand ??? make a table for legs place it in the corners of your tote grow them into your scrog place them in flower
trichomedome
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Hi duder, this is what you can do. Get a oid dispoable camera, Take the lense out of it. Use two little spots of bluetack to fix the disposable lense in front of your pocket camera/phone lense. this is roughly what you get. BE CAREFULL INSIDE THE DIPOSABLE CAMERA THER,S A CAPACITOR THAT WILL DISCHARGE ON YOU, IF YOU,RE NOT CAREFULL, NOT LETHAL BUT QUITE SORE
. let us see your results duder. TCDI presume this is what you meant ?
trichomedome
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Also you get some disposables with better quality lenses, the better the lense the sharper the photo. 1 other thing that,s relavent if you increase the distance from lense to lense "bigger spots of bluetack" then the magnification goes up. Btw the disposable lense must be as central and level to the camera lense as posible for the sharpest images possible. TCD
trichomedome
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You only need to put the screen on at the last 2/3 weeks if you prepare them wlth some lst atb
Sencha
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Sounds easy enough. + rep for that ideawell first off i would use a tote rather then pots more plants dont mean more yield so what you can do is make some kinbd of like TV dinner tray rather then top being a solid piece make it like a scrog tble now place the legs in the for corners of the tote and its easily can be moved you understand ??? make a table for legs place it in the corners of your tote grow them into your scrog place them in flower
TheNaturalist
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I would just do heavy LST while in veg and then throw them under the screen as soon as they go into flower. LST shoul have them fairly spread out and then the screen will let you get the canopy perfect as they stretch. I'd imagine moving a screen with multiple plants grown into it from veg to flower would be a pain in the ass.
TheDuder
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I agree with Naturalist. I did exactly what your talking about with my current mothers. I have always done topping, lst, and many other means of getting the branches to spread out to an even canopy. I have never tried a scrog before because these methods work really well once you can read the plants and anticipate their reactions to stress. I needed to restrict the vertical growth during the stretching phase of early flower. I put the screen in on day 2 of the flower cycle and the girls have been filling it nicely. The stretch is almost done and all my bud sites are at screen level and equal size. Worked great.
As far as moving a scrog: They make round metal screens with a kind of tripod stake stand that you could stake into each pot. They are not very big. The screens are a little bigger than the circumference of a 5 gallon bucket. You could always veg and train under those. As long as you don't weave through the screen, you could remove it when you put it under a bigger screen in the flower room. All that seems like a pain though. With LST techniques you can form the plant any way you want.
I would recommend getting some soft, thin string to tie tall branches down and bend them to your needs. Keep your flower screen in mind when forming the branch growth. Just topping them in wk 4 or 5 veg will do a lot to even the canopy. You'll still need to slow the upper growth some more but that is were LST comes in.
-Dude
As far as moving a scrog: They make round metal screens with a kind of tripod stake stand that you could stake into each pot. They are not very big. The screens are a little bigger than the circumference of a 5 gallon bucket. You could always veg and train under those. As long as you don't weave through the screen, you could remove it when you put it under a bigger screen in the flower room. All that seems like a pain though. With LST techniques you can form the plant any way you want.
I would recommend getting some soft, thin string to tie tall branches down and bend them to your needs. Keep your flower screen in mind when forming the branch growth. Just topping them in wk 4 or 5 veg will do a lot to even the canopy. You'll still need to slow the upper growth some more but that is were LST comes in.
-Dude
Decepticon
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did everyone top their plant(s) before they reached the screen?
Decepticon
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how many nodes did you let it get before you topped yours
Decepticon
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yeah i normally do it around 5 - 6 nodes then top i might wait til its 6 or 7 this time
TheDuder
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3 of my girls are still under a foot and at their 8th node. I will top them on Monday. node count is dependent of the inter-nodal length. Some strains grow an inch between nodes or more. Some grow far less. The more powerful, and the closer the light, the less the inter-nodal length will be. I keep a 600 watt 22 inches above the canopy at all times. I get very short plants with lots of branching.
-Dude
-Dude
trichomedome
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DUDER some sort of acknolagement is normaly the done thing ?Hi duder, this is what you can do. Get a oid dispoable camera, Take the lense out of it. Use two little spots of bluetack to fix the disposable lense in front of your pocket camera/phone lense. this is roughly what you get. BE CAREFULL INSIDE THE DIPOSABLE CAMERA THER,S A CAPACITOR THAT WILL DISCHARGE ON YOU, IF YOU,RE NOT CAREFULL, NOT LETHAL BUT QUITE SORE
I presume this is what you meant ?
[/QUOTE]I never top mine imo they stay more compact. I tie mine at over at 90 deg.
Here,s an update Taken Yesterday 2 wks old streach is now over now. TCD
Decepticon
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Looking awesome trich, and if i dont top mine i wouldnt know which way to bend it cause its right in the middle lol
TheDuder
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I'm following a lot of threads. Sorry. It seems like a good idea, but more than I am willing to do I suppose. I was hoping one of my cameras was the answer. Thanks for the idea. Your screen is nice and full. Do you find by not topping them that the plant focuses growth still, or potency on the main cola? Or, does the scrog serve its purpose in unifying all the bud size and potency regardless of the top? It would seem the screen would do that.
How long are you expecting your flower to go? I am dying to see that screen get heavy. My scrog was an afterthought. Next time I have some free space I may try it form veg. How big is your screen? It looks big.
Lookin' gnarly bro'siff!
-Dude'r
How long are you expecting your flower to go? I am dying to see that screen get heavy. My scrog was an afterthought. Next time I have some free space I may try it form veg. How big is your screen? It looks big.
Lookin' gnarly bro'siff!
-Dude'r
trichomedome
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It,s the 1st scrog i,ve done so i can,t comment on the pro, and con,s. But when i did top them i found that it made them grow more stemy than tying does so imo yes it concentrates growth on the cannopy or the colas depending on your grow technique . Even if you take the top tip and bend over the 1st 3 or 4 inches it has the topping effect without losing a major bud site. A cable tie is perfect, here,s what tying over to 90 deg ends up like. The maintem in the right hand photo, you can see bending in with the stems coming of and growing up. With regards to flowering time i normaly give them 10 weeks and take it from there. TCD
