jeudi 8 janvier 2015

The Advantages Of Scrog Method

By Enid Hinton


A cannabis growing method called Screen of Green is a very effective way to grow large plants in a small space. This technique is also known as Scrog, and it allows you optimal use of your grow room. Even larger strains that used to be prohibitive due to their size, can be grown easily. This method makes it possible to predict the size and to solve the problem of inadequate light penetration.

There are different variations of this method. You can set your screen just before the flowering period, after changing the light cycle. When you change the light cycle, marijuana will continue to grow for a few weeks, and the buds will come through the mesh. Now it is the time to bend them on the screen and fix them in this new, horizontal position.

your screen should have large holes, large enough to allow the shoots to pass through. This can be, for example, chicken wire, or some other type of netting. It can be made of different materials, use your imagination. In any case, once the shoots come through, you have to bend them and fix them in horizontal position using straps, clips or something similar. Your goal is to have one nice, beautiful canopy on the top.

Once your plants stop growing, all flowers will be bent on the top, supplied by adequate amount of light. You just have to wait until their flowering cycle ends, and your crops will be ready for harvesting. The numerous advantages of this technique include better light effectiveness, better height control and significantly increased harvest.

Another popular method called SOG is more about speeding up the production. Using this technique, plants are promoted to flower, allowing continuous production. Screen of Green is more about maximized production in small spaces. This method promotes horizontal growth and makes sure all your flowers get enough light at the end of the flowering cycle.

The screen has to be very well fixed, because it will carry the weight of all your plants. This way they will be able to concentrate on flowering. Make sure to use only feminized plants at the beginning. All stems don't have to have the same height, once they reach the screen, you will bend them anyway, and they will get enough light.

It is much better to use only Sativa strains for this type of growth. Indica strains have much stronger stems and cannot be bent so easily. Besides, Sativa strains have higher internodal distance. When approximately sixty percent of your mesh is filled, it is time to change the photo period to 12/12 hours. Flowering will cover the rest of the mesh.

You may do some other things to maximize your harvest as well. For example, if you eliminate maybe eighty percent of the central shoot when your plant is young, instead of eliminating the whole central shoot, you will get more new branches. Traditional pruning creates two new shoots at cutting point, while this way of pruning may result with up to eight new ones.




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