I need a suggestion for a nice scrog grow strain.

VACAVILLE,CA.GROWER

VACAVILLE,CA.GROWER

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I will be starting a scrog grow very soon. I cant decide on what strain to grow. I need a suggestion on a nice scrog strain. Something simple. strain name and seedbank. I will be ordering my seeds very soon. So please reply if you have a suggestion.
 
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bigsteve

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My vote goes to Blueberry Gum from G 13 Labs via Attitude Seed Bank. The BG is phenotypically short and bushy, two of the most important factors in a successful sog or scrog grow.

When I'm vegging with a 400W MH bulb I don't have to top or FIM the ladies to keep them short and compact. When using the 400W HPS set-up to veg I've found it is a good idea to top or FIM (I prefer to FIM) the ladies when they are 8-10 inches. I veg the BG until they are 18-22 inches tall, about 5 weeks from seed, and have them finish in 1 1/2 to 3 gallon pots. NOTE -- to increase the bushiness make sure your final transplant is into a pot that is at least as wide as it is tall. Tall, deep pots tend to produce taller plants so keep the pots short too.

Good luck, BigSteve.

PS - Blueberry Gum is also one of the easier strains to clone. Filling a grow with clones is the single best way to control for size. With all the plants having the same genetics it is simpler to keep them all the same size.
 
VACAVILLE,CA.GROWER

VACAVILLE,CA.GROWER

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bigsteve said:
My vote goes to Blueberry Gum from G 13 Labs via Attitude Seed Bank. The BG is phenotypically short and bushy, two of the most important factors in a successful sog or scrog grow.

When I'm vegging with a 400W MH bulb I don't have to top or FIM the ladies to keep them short and compact. When using the 400W HPS set-up to veg I've found it is a good idea to top or FIM (I prefer to FIM) the ladies when they are 8-10 inches. I veg the BG until they are 18-22 inches tall, about 5 weeks from seed, and have them finish in 1 1/2 to 3 gallon pots. NOTE -- to increase the bushiness make sure your final transplant is into a pot that is at least as wide as it is tall. Tall, deep pots tend to produce taller plants so keep the pots short too.

Good luck, BigSteve.

PS - Blueberry Gum is also one of the easier strains to clone. Filling a grow with clones is the single best way to control for size. With all the plants having the same genetics it is simpler to keep them all the same size.
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Thank you very much for your reply. I would be using a 48x24x60 tent with a 400 watt mh/hps light. So would that strain be good for my setup?
 
AlphaPhase

AlphaPhase

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I always thought sativas were better for scrog, as a scrog controls the height and since sativas grow quite a bit, they will fill the screen nicely. Most og's are good for a scrog, cali connection Larry og was good in my scrog, it also helps the yield to scrog ogs as they typically are moderate yielders. I think attitude had some og's as freebies right now as well, so you could order something else and still get some free og beans to grow out some other time of you wanted to grow anothet strain.
 
yipyip

yipyip

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VACAVILLE said:
I will be starting a scrog grow very soon. I cant decide on what strain to grow. I need a suggestion on a nice scrog strain. Something simple. strain name and seedbank. I will be ordering my seeds very soon. So please reply if you have a suggestion.
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Dr Crippling increadable bulk from herbies seeds very durable withstand extremes ive been growing this for a year now 99% clone success i cut my teeth on them cant go wrong at all SAM_1434.JPG
 
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bigsteve

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" I would be using a 48x24x60 tent with a 400 watt mh/hps light. So would that strain be good for my setup?"

A 400W set-up is probably as bright as you want to be within a small tent like that. Try to set things up so you have as much headroom as possible. You want as much vertical room in the tent you can manage.

Other consideration is venting. Especially while running the MH group you will want to carefully monitor the heat level inside the tent. You may want to consider a small fan in the door to suck cooler air into the tent.

The Blueberry Gum should do well in your set-up. Good luck, BigSteve.

PS - The BG has a strong berry smell when flowered more than 7 weeks. Be patient and wait for most all the pistils to change from white to orange before harvesting. Finally, the short compact nature of the strain is conducive to re-growing. Done right you can harvest your BG and re-harvest the same plant in 9-11 weeks.
 
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schuylaar

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any strain with even nodes.

the alternating node strains don't do well with training of any sort.

how many grows do you have under your belt? be honest.

this is an awesome database of strains with pics in order to select even nodes:

http://en.seedfinder.eu/search/
 
AlphaPhase

AlphaPhase

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I'm almost positive that all mature mj plants have alternating nodes unless it has a genetic defect. I'm not positive on this but I am 99% sure as I've never come across a plant that maintained opposite node spacing. o_O
 
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mike4c4

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AlphaPhase said:
I'm almost positive that all mature mj plants have alternating nodes unless it has a genetic defect. I'm not positive on this but I am 99% sure as I've never come across a plant that maintained opposite node spacing. o_O
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Im with ya.
schuylaar said:
any strain with even nodes.

the alternating node strains don't do well with training of any sort.

how many grows do you have under your belt? be honest.

this is an awesome database of strains with pics in order to select even nodes:

http://en.seedfinder.eu/search/
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If you know of a strain that does that please post a link to it, because i have never seen any? Thats how they show their maturity.
 
AlphaPhase

AlphaPhase

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Let me try to point ya in the right direction Schuyler. All plants start with opposite nodes. But once they are mature, they will alternate. I think what you are referring to is early plant training, such as topping at the 4th node, or, in your link, mainlining, or another term, lst. Early training should be done while nodes are opposing, this will keep a plant grown from seed more uniform. But as tthe plant ages and becomes mature and ready for flower, the nodes become alternating with 99% of mj plants.I'm sure there are plants that don't have alternating nodes, but it's not something you can get by using a certain strain. It's just a genetic defect that you may find with a runt plant out of 1000s of plants from the genome. Here is an example of early training and mainline that I have done with a plant. The even node structure makes it easy to mainline, though all plants can be scroged, topped, mainline, fim, or supercrop. Hope this helps. 2437666-e05c724f261289f8fb2229a60d89b060.jpeg2437667-aac72b52ad02662e73d25d1db24ffeaa.jpeg 2437668-e6af3265b41f0afabe6586b8ba0ceb61.jpeg
 
AlphaPhase

AlphaPhase

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Also, purple paralysis would be a great scrog candidate. I didn't scrog this per say, but I did but a net and next time I run this plant I will scrog it because it would be exceptional. It's mostly sativa. downloadfile-2.jpeg
 
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schuylaar

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AlphaPhase said:
Let me try to point ya in the right direction Schuyler. All plants start with opposite nodes. But once they are mature, they will alternate. I think what you are referring to is early plant training, such as topping at the 4th node, or, in your link, mainlining, or another term, lst. Early training should be done while nodes are opposing, this will keep a plant grown from seed more uniform. But as tthe plant ages and becomes mature and ready for flower, the nodes become alternating with 99% of mj plants.I'm sure there are plants that don't have alternating nodes, but it's not something you can get by using a certain strain. It's just a genetic defect that you may find with a runt plant out of 1000s of plants from the genome. Here is an example of early training and mainline that I have done with a plant. The even node structure makes it easy to mainline, though all plants can be scroged, topped, mainline, fim, or supercrop. Hope this helps. View attachment 3367864View attachment 3367865 View attachment 3367866
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someone told me the even/odd thing. like you, i've never seen..but who am i?..growing only 3 years..i don't know everything. i just googled the odd/even node thing but i will look up who told me..shame on them!

unlike others who get a hot head after being corrected, i take gracefully..and i thank you for setting me straight.

in that persons defense we were taking topping as well..maybe i got confused..awhile ago i topped my cotton candy and she shocked hella bad with all her fans falling off..well that defeated the purpose of letting the bottom finish..this was back when i first started and didn't realize that not everyone here knows what they are talking about. you can't top certain strains..that's for sure but how do you know which ones are topable?

all apologies:oops:
 
AlphaPhase

AlphaPhase

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No worries :) There's definitely quite a bit of incorrect info around riu so don't sweat it. I know some plants don't respond as well as others to topping, some may grow a little slower and take a day or two longer to recover, but in my experience, I top everything and top them 10x :p I've never had the leaves fall off, I would guess maybe the stem where the plant was topped got an infection perhaps? That would be my guess. Thanks for correcting my typo, I'm terrible at spelling lol
 
BDOGKush

BDOGKush

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You don't have to stick to Indicas if you don't want to. There are a lot of sativa dominant strains that thrive in a SCRoG. Blue Dream, C99, Sour Diesel, Blue Kush all do great in a SCRoG.

I have 5th Element (Blackberry x All Spark OG) from Elemental seeds flowering right now and wish it was in a SCRoG, it'd be a huge yielder.

I think Alphaphase is right that Sativas are good for SCRoGing.
 
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