Hi boys and girls..

Since I got several thoughts about Scrog and it seems a novel idea for an outside grow I thought I would detail my reason and method of the grow.

First I started 30 seeds of varied strains and picked those that seemed the fastest, closest nodes and best overall look.

I grew them indoors in a mini green house tray untill I was sure that frosts were over for the spring.

I ended up with 4 plants I chose for the scrog. I planted in a mixture of Miragrow pre ferted potting soil and Pearlite and Vermiculite in a 10/1/1 relation. I dug 20" across holes about 2 foot deep ( 2 of em) and planted the 4 plants that were about 6" tall at time of plant.

My soil is Clay based so to help in drainage as the holes just become big pots around here untill roots drive into the clay so I drove a couple of 3/4" PVC pipes into the bottom of the holes about 3 feet down and covered with broken clay pots bits before filling with my soil mix. I also buried 4 - 1/2 gal plastic milk jugs so that just the caps were above the ground with several small nail holes around the bottoms, 2 in each hole. These allow fert to be added in the jugs and slowly leach into the soil. This also helps keep them getting a drink when I miss a few days.

When the plants grew to about 2 foot tall I drove 6 8 foot pieces of ReBar into the ground around the plants in a rectangle of about 4 foot by 8 foot in size.

I planted 4 plants as I figured 1 or 2 would be males and I wanted 2 fems for the scrog set. I tipped the tips of each limb to force multi branching.

As the plants grew I used wire to GENTLY bend the major branches down and over a period of 2 weeks I had them all pretty flat.

I then cover the whole area with Chicken Wire attached to each of the Rebars around the grow. Due to the Soil Mix I did not add any Nutes as the soil is well nuted for at least 4 months.

As the plants grow they tend to poke their little tips up through the Wire and had to be pushed GENTLY back under the wire so they spread evenly under the wire as they grow. I also kept tipping the faster growing tips to force more branching ( and give me a sample of the smoke along the way) .

In this case I did find 2 males of the 4 and offed them as soon as they showed ( made Butane extraction hash with them) which left 2 fems.

Along the way one of the fems developed a Black Tip problem that to this day I have no idea what it was but nothing I tried fixed it so I off the girl and Burned her to kill of the What Ever It Was.

SO now I have 1 fem and she covers a 4 foot by 4 foot square with hundreds of buds poking out. I have continued to tip any that are growing faster than then rest of the tips to keep them fairly level across the flat.

After 4 months I fert with Miracle Grow All Purpose nutes until the start to show bud then I switch to Miracle Grow Bloom Builder and used Half the concentration as recommended on the box and fert one a week with clean water every other day between nutes. And the photos show who its looks at the moment.

I recommend this method for all you folks that are concerned about tall plants in your back yard drawing attention and getting damaged in storms as they will stay low and not look anything like a Xmas tree plant that causes lots of looks and because the wire intertwines with the plant they can stand up to gale force winds, rain and all kind of stuff that would break down unsupported plants.

Scrog works very well outdoors and you end up with a flat square with just the Buds covering the whole area where under the wire all the leaves drop off as above the wire the Buds block almost all the sun from getting below the wire.

Not sure which will produce the most finished bud but I grew two other plants , one Sativa and one Indica ( at least that how they look) so I could compare quantity after finish and will pass that along then. If quantities are close I intend to do All scrog next grow as from my view almost no one that has looked at it can tell its pot. They all think its a Veggy growing in my garden of beans,tomatoes and melons.. until they get close enough to id the individual leaves..

At this moment the Scrog is 4X4 foot and the most buds are about 5 to 8 inches across the grid if wire. And I estimate 2 to 3 Hundred individual buds in the from 1 to 8 inches tall above the wire..