Quote Originally Posted by rhizome
Keeps stuff from falling over- you'll have weight supported at awkward angles, and as they fill in they'll want to lay down onto the screen.
Sorry rhizome, I'm just not understanding this. I want to believe, really, but I still don't get it. I guess I'm doing something wrong, but I've never had any of my buds want to lay down. They all seem to want to grow toward the light. Maybe I'm such a bad grower that my buds are not big enough to fall down. Well maybe, but I've found that once I top or LST or FIM, or do anything that creates additional bud sites, those buds end up smaller than if I had less of them and didn't train my plants. To fill in a 3'x3' screen solid with buds only, from 4 plants or so, takes a lot of bud sites per plant, and they get small. Overall a bigger yield, but smaller buds that don't want to fall over.

So please help me understand. I'm not trying to be difficult. Perhaps I'm not all there, but I've never heard of two screens or what benefit they have over one. I always want to try new things, but not if they don't make sense to me.

I guess maybe next time I'll try 2 and see If I can figure out some way to make it beneficial. Since I stadium scrog, would I need a stadium screen for both, or could the bottom screen be flat? Stadium screens are much more involved in the making. And exactly what part of the plant goes in each section? I'm imagining the space below the bottom screen is bare wood. The middle layer is a bunch of topped or FIMed branches with fan leaves that will see little, if any light. The top layer is nothing but buds and small bud leaves coming up all open spaces in the screen. And what about LST? Would I bend the branches down right from the start, or wait until they are just into the second layer?

Any ideas here would be great, because I may want to give this a go for next time, since I have some extra flat screens laying around.

The down side? I imagine it will take extra space vertically, since you've got to get your hands to the back of all layers. I also am guessing that it will take longer, since you are growing them taller.