Scrog Bud Density

rollinnat

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It's my first time running a scrog. I have four 4x4 screens. I lollipoped and removed large fan leaves on day 1 of 12/12. On day 20 I removed shoots that didn't reach the screen and removed all the large fan leaves which was around 80% of the leaf mass and took around 5 hours per screen. The leaves were so tightly layered ontop of each other that the leaves that they were transpiring on the leaves directly under them. A few days later the remaining leaves exploded in size so I removed some that were blocking light and air flow.

Each 4x4 screen has around 1000 buds. In hindsight I think this strain is too indican heavy for scrog. I have some concerns that the bud desnity could cause mold problems later in flower. I'm not too concerned with the colas that have turned up and have some space around them but theirs a lot of buds at nodes and tight clusters of colas that seem like they wont have much air flow as they plump up. Its gettings really difficult to defoliate tight clusters and deep in the screen.

I'm wondering if any of the experienced scrog growers have some feed back that theY could give me? Does this look alright or do you think I might run into problems?
 

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What’s the metrics ? Temps, rh co2 ppm?
They look healthy. I have reduced rh to 45=50% in a sealed room especially the last several weeks. The rh spike at lights off has me bringing rh closer to 40% which to me is worth the potentially loss in yield rather than risk the alternatives.
Removal of any receding leaves in the buds the last several weeks is critical. I use large tweezers and wear non powder latex gloves.
I soak them in 90% isopropyl.
I also feel that uv(400) is helpful since way back using hortilux cmh bulbs with uv. My mix of lights have uv or have supplemental bars. I have no scientific proof of this it’s just my experience.
Nice clean set up btw.
 
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