I did an outdoor scrog last year for the first time. It was a game changer in the way of maintenance, pest control, mold control and even bud size. I'm in the Northeast, so my season isn't great, I need all the help I can get.
I purposely was trying to keep them smaller, so most were in buried 7 gallon fabric pots to slow them down a bit because last year I had trees and my hubs had daily panic attacks over it lol... so this was why I did a scrog, to stay more discreet. They of course grew through the pots, so I won't say too much on yield because I was trying to keep them smaller, but in general, scrogging increases yield. I had 2 Sativa doms scrogged, Super Silver Haze gave me 14 ounces, Amnesia Lemon gave me 16 ounces, and my Indica Dom big girl Black Cherry Punch gave me 30 ounces. I used hammer in metal fence posts, the green coated metal fence and zip ties to build my scrog. You have to keep training them out so they don't get tall, that's the point scrogging, you don't just put them in the net once and leave them. It takes several adjustments through veg and the stretch to get them scrogged. I trained mine out well before they hit the scrog net so they were ready to go, and I planned on doing one more adjustment, but was gone on a week long camping trip and they grew too much to risk breaking limbs so they stayed. I'll put up a few pics and link my diary from last summer if you'd like to take a peak, the beginning shows how I prepared them for scrogging.
Amnesia Lemon
Black Cherry Punch
Group shot
SSH and Amnesia Lemon
Hello fellow farmers! Starting my 2022 journey, and I'm going to try to actually keep a grow diary this time... I said that last year too and was lazy about it... well more like my ladies were massive and required all my extra time. 🤷♀️ So I start indoors because I'm in the Northeast and I...
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