New Scrog Grow... Questions?

[chrisdl805]

Dren - you originally asked about a ScrOG. I just finished my first scrog and got 2.5 lbs from four plants in 18 sq. ft./1,400 watts. I'm starting a new scrog in the same space with six plants, to cut down on the veg time. I made a lot of mistakes on my first scrog. I would have yielded a lot more than the 2.5 lbs. if I had done everything right. The point is, you don't need a lot of plants to get a big yield. Compared to a SOG, the ScrOG will require more veg time. But a couple more weeks isn't the end of the world.

I live in a med-legal state where the maximum number of plants is six per person and I keep my grows legal. In most states, the penalties for growing pot increase with the number of plants. In the I-hope-it-never-happens event that you have to interface with law enforcement, you would probably be better off with fewer plants than with many - and that is where ScrOG beats SOG hands down.

just a little food for thought...

PC :smokin:

Hey pharma I had a few questions about your scrog as I'm about to start my first one in a few weeks. My flower room is about 7'x4' I have one 400w , and one 600w , that are both aircooled. Right now I have about 10 bubba kush clones in coco that I'm vegging with my spectra max 4ft T5. Of those ten I will pick out the best and use them in my scrog...I also have a co2 comp. and humidity/ temp contoller hooked up to an exhaust fan and carbon can filter. Right now I only have one 4" passive intake, so I think I need a few more as my exhaust is 6" and I read you need 3x the intake of your exhaust.

What mistakes did you make and what would you have done different? 2.5lbs from 4 plants sounds pretty dam good to me, but if you can get more out of it awesome. How many plants would you reccomnd for my area 28 sq. ft. what did you grow in? I'm thinking of transplanting them into Promix if I can find it in CA or Bio-bizz All MIX. If I cant find them or there too expensive to have shipped I might try mixing my own soil with peat moss, perlite, maybe some vermiculite amd some lime of course. This is a medical grow and I cant grow more than 12 plants right now, but I doubt I will need that many in a scrog anyway.

I also noticed someone said co2 is good from the babies? I only heard of using co2 while in flower...

[PharmaCan]

chrisdl805 - The main problem with my scrog was that a light I ordered took 3.5 weeks to arrive so my plants vegged and vegged and so the training was all fucked up. I also learned that I should have second screen, about 12" above the first, to support the buds when they start getting big.

1000 watts isn't really enough for 28 sq. ft. - it's 35.7 watts/sq. ft. If the lights are centered, you'll probably get air buds around the perimeter but, what the hell, if you have 20 sq. ft. of nice solid buds, you should be happy. ...and the air buds make good hash.

You could easily do your area with six plants; and that would allow you a second grow of six plants while still being within the law.

PC :smokin:

[zlessley]

Chris, I mentioned the CO2 for seedlings, yes, they benefit a lot from it when they're just getting started, not as much when vegging, and more in the last half of flowering