My idea for a BOG/LST type combo.

seventynine

Active Member
Well I've been wanting to do a BOG type grow for a while. Right now I'm growing my first grow from seeds in a 30"X20"x48" area (top area of cabinet is for cloning chamber and storing ballasts, etc.) I'm growing under a 250 Watt MH. I'll be switching to an enhanced spectrum bulb for flowering.

Anyway I don't want to have all my plants tied up to a screen and then have to separate out the males. I have 9 viable seedlings and 1 that I injured and still don't know if it will survive. I'm thinking of putting each one in a 6-7" pot and start out by LSTing. I hope to create a canopy kind of like a regular SCROG with the LST.

Here's where the difference in my idea comes in. I'm growing in a cabinet with little holes to attach cabinets that go all up the thing. I could put a screw in each hole, and after I've vegged the plants to cover the air space above their respective pots, I could then train the branches up the side of the cabinet with strings tied to screws. This way when I find males I can remove them by untying the strings...hopefully the plants would fill out enough in flowering to fill the spots left by the males.

I might even think about doing this even when I switch to clones. If I can start the LST under a couple T5s in my 14" cloning cabinet I can make this a perpetual grow system. I predict that if I learn to train well I should get similar results to doing a BOG, but without the screen, and that would make perpetual harvest much easier.

Tell me what you all think.
 

seventynine

Active Member
Maybe my terminology is wrong. The idea is to aggresively LST (sounds like an oxymoron) to a horizontal canopy and then also create vertical canopies along the walls. But instead of using chicken wire I'd just be tying down the branches horizontally and then some would be trained vertically.
 
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