Diary Of A SCROG Addict

0blivious

Active Member
Well I think its finally time to start a journal ladies and gents, i've had some great advice and have learnt lots here off so many of you RIU members maybe its time to give a little something back huh?

Right, I grow in DWC / bubble buckets and am just starting on my first ever scrog attempt so maybe you lot can come along for the ride huh? I love the idea of scrogging as I have limited space and have been struggling flowering 2 ladies in my tent due to high issues and light penetration - two things scrogging seriously deals with nicely

The setup I will be using is as follows;

Tent 90cm x 90 cm x 160 cm
300 watt equivalent Veg CFL for propagation
400 watt metal halide for veg
400 watt hps for flower
4" inline inlet
6" ruck extraction
Submersible Air Pumps (1 per bucket)
twin outlet air pump
6" Air Stones x 2 (1 per bucket)
AN Sensi Grow
AN Seni Bloom
AN Bud Candy
AN Big-Bud
Digital PH Meter
Green House Seeds kalashnikova (fem)
Sam Sara Seeds Supersonic Crystal Storm Auto (fem)


I know it will be hard to run both an auto-flowering and photoperiod flowering together due to the height differences but hey ill give it a go, I do have a fair few kalashnikova fem seeds but wanted to see what Scrogging could help me get from my autoflower. I'll be leaving the autoflower under a cfl, then MH for like 4 weeks before I flip the light schedule from 18/6 to 12/12 on a HPS for the kalashnikova.

I'm going to be raising my DWC buckets off the floor as they are the type that have drainage pipes built at the bottom - this should help me to change my res every week and allow me to flush when needed without having to move the set up once in the screen.

Pics will be updated regularily and I'll try to post each day on this all the way from the start to the filthy filthy bud porn at the end!!

Right any comments, questions, advice, critiicism etc feel free to contact me about.
 

0blivious

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Hello All.

Right Day 2.

Put my seeds into rockwool blocks yesterday, I'd soaked the rockwool over night in water ph adjusted to 5.8, popped them both into my propagator dome with 1 vent left open and put them in a nice dark and cosy warm place - and now we wait!!!


Day three (today)

Looking good so far, the Green House Seeds Kalashnikova has popped and is on the go nicely, sitting at about 1" so far. The Sam Sara Supersonic Crystal Storm has broken above the surface but the seed casing is still totally closed around top - I've sprayed the seed with some ph balanced water and will leave it for a day or two to see if she busts out all incredible hulk style soon!

Over last night I rinsed the hydroton I had soaking in ph adjusted water and have transfered the Kalashikova into one of my DWC buckets - I know its early but I have always done this, you simply need to mist the rockwool cube from time to time until the roots make there way out of the block.

I added 5ml of grow to the bucket and ph adjusted the res to 5.8 so she (not named them yet) has something to eat if she needs it once her taproot hits the spray at the bottom of the netpot.

Took a few pics for you lot which I'll upload soon to keep you all entertained and updated but so far so good :)
 

0blivious

Active Member
Right Pics as promised, ignore the cardboard on the floor of my tent, its just temporary while i get something to raise both buckets better but for now it works.

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STACKB

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How many buckets are you running? How much dry weight are you expecting? Looking good so far
 

0blivious

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How many buckets are you running? How much dry weight are you expecting? Looking good so far
Hey StackB, hows yourself?

Just running two x 20L buckets as only for personal smoke and looking at scrog its going to sort me out for a long time lol!

I have no idea what to expect in terms of dry weight as this will be my first scrog attempt using two strains i've never grown before, one being an autoflower but going off my normal harvest anything over 3oz per lady is good with me. With the auto I guess anything over 2oz is ok.
 

0blivious

Active Member
Pulled up a chair... Be interesting to see how you scrog with buckets...
Howdy Jay_normous!

Yeah Im looking forward to giving it a go, think I have most of it figured out for res changes etc so lets see what we can get shall we? The kalashnikova is supposed to be ideal for scrog so should turn out ok im hoping
 

0blivious

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Day 4

Ok, checked on my ladies this morning (currently like 4am) and the Supersonic Crystal Storm Auto has now kicked, punched, bitten spat n clawed its way through the seed casing and has greened up niceley, just added the same 5ml grow to the bucket and ph balanced to 5.8 before I transfer her.

The Kalashnikova has grown a little, say just under a half inch and is nice and green, yey!

I'll be setting up the tent later today after work to get both buckets raised enough to allow me to work under the screedn and do res changes weekly with ease. So far so good.

Temps 24.4
Humidity 63%
ph 5.8

So far so good, will be posting pics shortly..
 

0blivious

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Pics Update

Ok peeps here you go on the pic updates for day 4.

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The first pic is the kalashnikova and the other two are the supersonic crystal storm auto.

Lol my girlfriend has finally named our girls, so from left to right meet Kensi & Ghetto pmsl!!
 

0blivious

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Few more pics for you lot after I transfered the supersonic crystal storm into a bucket this morning, all stations are go :)


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Right off to work now, will be coming back with some 2" climbing plant support from homebase to make the screen (bargain at £2-4 for 1mx1m) so will prob have some pics of the set up of that.

Need to grab either a large plastic box or a few small ones to raise everything off the ground enough to give me room to work and then we wait folks..
 

0blivious

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Hello again.

Right, I got back and checked my ladies - they seem fine, joy. The supersonic crystal storm (ghetto) has fully opened up to enjoy the cfl and the kalashnikova (kensi) seems a little bigger (but it could jut be me!). I'll give both 5-7 days and then will be throwing the 400 MH in with them (pics later or in the morning as the lights are off at mo).

I grabbed 2x 0.5mx1m pieces of "climbing plant support" from homebase on my way back from work its pretty good stuff, pretty strong, geen, chlorine free, has 2 inch holes and only cost me £3.98 total. I've got plent of zip ties knocking about to join them before I can cut it down to size - my tent is like 90cm x 90cm so ill go with 80cm x 80cm to give me some room around the edges.

The build went pretty simple - line it up, zip tied the ends and then every 2nd/3rd hole and then 2 zip ties in the centre for some support. After that I basically threw it on top of my tent and cut 1 square in on the screen from the tents back and side edges and 2 squares from the front / door edge to give me a little extra room...simples!

Ok so pics of the screen build and finished screen (plants shortly, sorry lights are off)
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Jay_normous

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Good job man...

I couldn't cut my screen so I just doubled it over and cable tied it..

At one point I thought you were doing a vertical scrog with the bulb hanging straight down..

Looking foraward to seeing the outcome mate..
 

0blivious

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Good job man...

I couldn't cut my screen so I just doubled it over and cable tied it..

At one point I thought you were doing a vertical scrog with the bulb hanging straight down..

Looking foraward to seeing the outcome mate..
Hey Jay.

Cheers, its actually a little crazy looking at the size of the screen and comparing it to the overall size and girth of the ladies I normally get lol it looks so small!!!

I was considering making the screen a little smaller at the bottom and then building a "v" or "u" shape up the sides to have more surface area to work with but think i'll be happy to just try the flat screen first and get a hanlde on the basics before I try that though. My screen was really easy to cut, its strong and will easily keep the plant flattened out but was no match for my harvest scissors!!

I'll keep you posted and will update the pics regular as I'm sure I'm going to need help at some point but thats why I love this site, everybody wants to help you sort your shit out! (mainly because they want to see the budporn at the end lol!)
 

0blivious

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Ok Day 5

Temp 26.1
Humidity 43%
ph 6.1 (adjusting back now)

Hello, how we all doing?

Checked on my ladies this morning and they seem great, the kalashnikova is a little bigger and the supersonic crytal storm is full open and should really take off over the next few days going off the breeders info.

The autoflowerer is going to set the height my screen is set at but if its below 8" I'll raise that bucket higher so the screen is still ok for the kalashnikova. Need to add a little hydroten to the top of the autoflower net pot now she is a little bigger to stop light into my bucket so I have a few handfully soaking in ph 5.8 water and will drop that in there later on.

Ok so pics for you, no massive changes but they are coming along fine....

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First pic is the Supersonic crystal storm (ghetto), second is the kalaashnikova (kensi), third obviously temp/humidity and the forth to show that they are gaining a little height yey! lol just cant wait to have the screen going and seeing nothing but tops and bud :)

update again soon
 

0blivious

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Day 6

Just a quick update before work, I'll post some more pictures when I get home. Not much change, both ladies are just getting established really. The ph had drifted towards 7 over night on both buckets so I adjusted back down to 6 and will re-check when I get home.

Temp 26.6
Humidity 52%
ph 6.0 (adjusted back from 7)

bye for now
 
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