It depends on a lot of things, but either way will work. A lot of people let the screen get about 2/3 full before flipping the lights to 12-12 and use the strech to fill in the rest. you can fill every hole and flower, but your overall plant height will be much taller and potentially not as even since your tops will be growing straight up and not being trained under the screen any more, so make sure you have room if you go that route.howdy people i have a scrog and dont know whether to leave some holes in my net empty so when it comes to flowering i can still keep bending branches threw, or simply to fill all holes in net and flower??
im about to start a scrog, i have a 400w hps with a cool tube, but i dont have much height between the screen and bulb. 10 inches. the temps are at 78 within 2 inches. whats my best option?
If you flip your lights when the screen is only 1/3 or 1/2 full you could get away with using a sativa dominant plant, you will just need to keep training it for longer than the 2 weeks that most people recomend. Thats the beauty of a scrog grow, you can fit some huge plants into some small spaces.
It might be, heat will be less, I dont know how big your cabinet is, but you can do the math. You want between 50 and 70 watts per foot. Over 70 wont hurt your plants, but it won't increase your yeild or any thing. I would definetly grow the jack herer if its your favorite strain.Thats a pretty good idea, i may have to go for it then. oh, and quick question, would it be beneficial to just go for a 250 instead of the 400?
its 4' tall x 2 1/2' wide x 1 1/2' deep.(exactly why im doing a scrog, lol) im pretty sure it ends up being 6 square ft. well i am going with the jh, but its going to be next grow, i have 3 unknown mothers right now. cloned off friends, parents, outdoor plants. we shall see how it goes.It might be, heat will be less, I dont know how big your cabinet is, but you can do the math. You want between 50 and 70 watts per foot. Over 70 wont hurt your plants, but it won't increase your yeild or any thing. I would definetly grow the jack herer if its your favorite strain.
A 250 watt light would be about perfect for your cabinet. 250/3.75= 66.6 watts per foot.oh wow, i must have been under the influence when i did the math to that, i guess i mistook the height for the length. ugh, its only 3.75fts squared.
There isn't any wrong way to do it, but IMO there wouldn't be a big advantage to doing this. You wouldn't save any space because the space for a bunch of small plants would be the same as the space for a few big plants. You would save some time on your first run by vegging them for less time, but if you had a separate vegg area, that advantage would go away once you had a regular cycle down. There are a lot of legal problems with growing more plants also. Some states medical mj laws limit how many plants you can grow. My state lets you have 7 plants, so it would be better to have 7 big ones than small ones. A lot of courts figure out sentancing based on the number of plants, not size. Growing turns into a federal thing at 99 plants, for example. You could have a scrog with 4 plants in it and someone else could have a sea of green with 50 plants in it, you could both have the same lights, canopy size etc and be getting the same yeilds, but if you both get busted what looks worse to the cops and courts? the guy with 50 plants. Lik I said, no wrong way to do it, but thats my 2 cents.my bad it was a random page number so im not gonna b able to find...but whats your take on more plants for shorter veg and faster total crop time?