The sreens where 4'x4' frames and had chicken wire in them.
Screens were 1' above the pots.
This guy vegged for a long time tho I don't remember how long, he was contstantly cutting anf trimming to get the screen filled and even cut stuff above screen to keep it even. To get shorter growth just start your 12/12 when they are about 8" above screen should finish closer to 18-24" ( which btw is what I'd probably shoot for).

Mac
Thanks for the numbers, they somehow help in creating a mental picture.

Id like to be able to keep him out of the "plant problems" section later.

What do you suppose the chances of that are?. I??ll be there with big ol?? alligator tears?..saying please, please help me, babies are dying!

BigTopps
I had a chance to grow one of my TW's before I tried scrog, so I had some kind of an idea about the stretch. I vegged to fill the screen 70%. Didn't really care about the height, because first I LST'd and then just set my chicken wire on top of the plants, and tied the screen to my plants' containers (that way the screen stayed around the same height from then on).

Good specific stuff?.very helpful.

Your lovely ladies link??that??s the kind of thing that really helps breakdown images. Very nicely done.

I think making your growroom as flexible as possible is the best approach... especially adjusting the height of your light. You could also cut individual screens for each plant, that way you can always turn them, and take them out individually if you have to, etc.

Lighting totally flexible:

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Buckets: No flexibility here:

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My Brain: Even less flexibility here

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How I got that picture is off topic, but a fun story. The off topic cops haven??t reprimanded us yet, so I??ll indulge myself.
In the 60??s I used to hang out at a ranch in the mountains. I always had a lot of fun there. There were always very interesting characters there, some in saffron robes, one in particular who always wore a really cool white robe, bald headed chanters, an Indian medicine man, musicians by the score, lots of beautiful young women who almost invariably were carrying trays laden with brownies??so what wasn??t to like.
So one hot summer day, we were passing around what we called ??blue hooters?, the guy who owned the place (if I remember his name was Leary) asked if anybody wanted some Kool-aid. It was hot and dry?.I thought to myself kool-aid was possibly a little juvenile but anything cold and wet would be good?.so yeah ??I??m in?. The kool-aid wasn??t exactly like any that I??d had before, but good?..not too sweet with a little bit of an acid overtone. It did the job on the cottonmouth? almost, I had a second Kool-aid and Viola, cottonmouth under control.
The guy in the white robe was quite thirsty too?.he drank kool-aid all day long and laughed a lot. He and Leary were always making up names for each other (I think of these two when I refer to oldmac as softmac). Leary called him Dr. Dick or Baba Rum Dumb and they??d laugh and laugh. It was so infectious that you just couldn??t help but laugh with them. Baba Rum Dumb referred to Leary as Padre or Father Timothy?.more laughing as this guy was no priest.
Ok?back to how I got the picture of my brain.
A little later the bald headed chanters began to get their groove on and as time went by everybody began to join in. It was somehow strangely compelling?.I joined in too. I??m pretty sure I didn??t get the words exactly right, but the chant was pretty repetitive and fairly easy to pick up. After some time?.not exactly sure how long?.it occurred to me that: not only could I, but somehow I needed to take a snapshot of my brain.
Sitting next to me in the chanting circle was the Shaman. At that moment he leaned over to me and said ??I hear you? (I hadn??t said anything aloud). He reached into his pocket and pulled out three things. A pouch full of herb, tobacco, and a pipe. He told me to take the herb. I tried to, but it was very dry and quite bitter, I had to wash it down with more kool-aid. He then loaded up his pipe and lit it. At that instant his chant changed. A totally different language at a completely different tempo that, for reasons that I can??t explain, was in perfect harmony with the first chant still in progress.
Every hair on my body was standing straight up on end. As I looked around the circle, everybody??s hair was on end. In the 60??s that was a lot of hair. (not sure about those bald guys though). On the ground in front of me was a gopher hole. The Shaman instructed me to dive into that hole and go to ??the center?. I immediately dove into the hole and accelerated faster, and faster, and still faster. Going deeper, deeper, always deeper. At one point I noticed that the Shaman was right there with me, going ever faster still.
The following morning I woke up at home, in my own bed with no idea what happened between these two points. How I even got home?.a total mystery.
I spent the next week at the carwash, washing windows, making a living. Come the weekend I thought that I might run over to the ranch to see what was going on. I grabbed a bag of walnuts (they??re perfect with the brownies) another bag of some weed that we called ??purple moron? (after a couple of hits we just called it ??Muh?) and threw on my Mexican wedding shirt?..the same shirt that I had worn the week previous. I tried to stuff the walnuts into the shirt pocket, but they just wouldn??t go. There already was something in the pocket. I reached into my pocket and removed a Polaroid picture???.. of my brain?.Uh, uh uh?Your guess is as good as mine.

Horsemanrocksout??waayyy out!
Horsemanrocks Reviewed by Horsemanrocks on . First time scrogger Ok scroggers?.here??s what I??m trying to get a little feedback on: I??ll be scrogging for the first time and would like opinions as to the height of the screen. Between the top of the bucket to the bottom of a 250W HID is 56?. The reflector is a real spreader??quite wide. It??s enclosed (got glass) and a 180 cfm exhaust fan. I??m going to make an assumption here: I??m assuming that the light couldn??t ever be closer than 12? ( that??s not exactly the part I want help Rating: 5