Medical Scrog: My first Real Grow

teddiekgb123

teddiekgb123

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:leaf:And growers we shall be, for:leaf:
:leaf:Thee my lord, for Thee.:leaf:
:leaf:Light hath descended forth from Thy :leaf:
:leaf:hand, that our plants may :leaf:
:leaf:swiftly carry out Thy command.:leaf:
:leaf:We shall blow smoke forth:leaf:
:leaf:unto Thee, and teeming with THC:leaf:
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:leaf:In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti:leaf:

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Hello everyone, I'm a medical grower from Michigan. I've grown a couple times in the past just kinda dinkin around in the closet not knowing what I'm doing. Since the law changed here in Michigan in 08' I've been pretty serious about learning how to grow. I didn't have the money start out for a while but that gave me time to learn as much as possible from sites like this one. After reading a couple hundred grow journals and working with a few friends on their grows I felt much more confident throwing what money I had into this and going for it. Here's my setup:


  • 8x6 room. Plywood with b/w poly doors in front and back
  • 2 - 1000w lights. Switchable, Aircooled 6"
  • 2 - 8" Duct fans for exhaust. Solid duct. Intakes are passive
  • 2 - 6" Duct fans for lights. Flexible duct. One in one out
  • Top feed Hydro with dual res., circle drippers, grow plugs into grow rocks
  • House and Garden nutrients only
  • 7 Cheese on res.1, 2 Skunk Berry and 2 Vanilla Kush on res.2
  • oh yeah...... a screen

I'm a little late in the game as far as posting my grow since I didn't have a cam. I put 5" clones into the room, vegged for 15 days and as of today I've been flowering for two weeks. The cheese started flowering very fast and already have nice little buds. The SB and VK are just now starting to bud. And here they are:

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Vanilla Kush:arrow:18vk.jpg Skunk Berry:arrow:19sb.jpg


Alright guys, enjoy the show and wish me luck
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PokesSmott

PokesSmott

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Sweet lookin stuff def looks pro... :) how did u get them to bush so much, i mean i understand the scrog but are they topped? Maybe just the kinda clone that is bush like?
 
teddiekgb123

teddiekgb123

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Whats up pokessmott, love the name. I topped the plants at about 6"-7" and I placed the screen at about 13". 6 of the 7 cheese are trained in a grid formation where all the plants are in the middle and all grow towards the edge of the screen. When I topped them I cut off everything else except 4 branches. The branches grow about 3" above the screen then get pulled back under and put a space further away each time. As each branch grows further away, the lower nodes on those branches grow up and you can put them in whatever hole you want. The rest of the plants weren't hacked up as much and are growing in a normal circular bush pattern. My first little experiment. Grid vs. Bush and so far bush is winning
 
stickybob

stickybob

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nice:) i got 6 ww and one v kush in half that space, started scroggin then took screen away, plants now going mental, overdone it i think, ure pics saved to comp to remind me of next atttack plan!
 
teddiekgb123

teddiekgb123

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Well.....I had the lovely experience of going to jail for Thanksgiving.:wall:
Back in April, I got caught with less than a gram of pot and I didn't have my medical certification at the time. The cop told me they would test it and "possibly" issue a warrant if the prosecutor felt like dealing with it. Well I didn't hear anything so I wasn't sure if I had one and they wouldn't tell me over the phone. So I get pulled over on the way to my mom's house for Thanksgiving dinner and yep I had one. So I got to spend the holiday with a pretty irate guy who was actually an inmate from general population but they put him in the holding cell with me because his cell mate had spread peanut butter all over his face while he was sleeping and they were going to move him somewhere else. The guard actually asked him why he didn't beat his ass. Fun. Anyway, in Michigan, any marijuana possession charges after Nov 08' can be cleared by getting certified. Judges do whatever they want though. So for any medical patients in MI with the same predicament, I'll keep you informed on how it goes. Enough with the borophyll and on with the chlorophyll.

Day 19 Flower:

The cheese plants stopped stretching about four days ago and are starting to fill out a little.
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The skunk berry and vanilla kush buds are starting to gain a little speed. They look they're gonna be late bloomers. They still had a little stretch left in them and were becoming a little untamed.
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Skunk Berry:arrow:sb bud.jpg Vanilla Kush:arrow:vk bud.jpg​


I trimmed up a lot of unnecessary bud sites and leaves underneath the screen.
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Cheese bush:arrow:cheese bush.jpg Cheese grid:arrow:cheese grid.jpg
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Skunk Berry:arrow:sb bush.jpg Vanilla Kush:arrow:vk bush.jpg​
 
teddiekgb123

teddiekgb123

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For me so far, scrogging during the flower stretch has been like trying to put together a puzzle that's constantly changing shape. Fortunately, about half way through the stretch you can kinda predict what the end picture is going to look like after the stretch, so you get a pretty good idea of which way you need to direct certain parts of the plant in order to end up with a full and even canopy. If you are doing an ever widening circular bush, there is a tendency to end up with a donut hole in the screen above the center of the plant so you have to remember early on to make enough of the lower branches grow towards the center to fill it in. When the plants hit the screen during veg I had to adjust about 25% of the screen every 2 days. When stretch started it went to half the screen and in full stretch I had to adjust every single site every other day. The last part is the tricky one. At first you just make everything grow in the general direction you want, but at the end of stretch you have to put every branch in the proper hole that will allow it be at the right height above the screen and evenly spaced out if you want max potential. So there doesn't end up being a whole lot ways this weed puzzle can fit together. Mine isn't perfect but I was able to keep everything within 2"-3" of each other in height above the screen. The screen actually isn't perfectly flat so some of the branches come out a little more or less to keep everything even. The cheese are done with their stretch and hopefully the skunk and kush are pretty much done too. So, I guess, at this point I get to sit back watch the action with the occasional leaf trimming here and there.

Here's a good pic of the puzzle that is scrog
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1badmasonman

1badmasonman

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:clap: Awesome grow dude, scribed +rep fo shizzle. I got released from the pokey the same day you went in hahahaha. Im here :peace: bro 1BMM
 
teddiekgb123

teddiekgb123

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Quick question guys. I started this grow out with 3 vanilla kush and ended up pulling one of them because there was yellowing in the veins of all the leaves old and new. I figured it was a deficiency but didn't want to take a chance on it having a communicable disease. My cousin actually pulled it out of the trash, put it in soil, and now it looks fine. I not too keen on such issues as of yet, so any ideas would be appreciated.
 
OGPanda

OGPanda

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Sub'ed up for the ride... Wish I could get all my possesion charges removed.... It's never gonna happen where I stay. Anyways wish you a great grow.
 
teddiekgb123

teddiekgb123

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Here's some updated pics of my babies:

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Skunk Berrysb 1.jpg
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I counted all the branches from the bottom of the screen and it looks like I have around 330 buds.
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kindone

kindone

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Looks real good teddie, I love to see more Michigan blades doin it right. And skunkberry is a great strain, the first real successful grow I ever did was skunkberry from peakseeds, where are yours from?
 
teddiekgb123

teddiekgb123

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kindone said:
Looks real good teddie, I love to see more Michigan blades doin it right. And skunkberry is a great strain, the first real successful grow I ever did was skunkberry from peakseeds, where are yours from?
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Thanks for the compliment my fellow Michigander. Unfortunately I don't know where the skunk berry came from. I got the clone from a friend of a friend who got his clone the same way I'm sure. So really, I don't know for sure what it is other than what he told me. This is actually the third time someone asked so I'm going to try and track down the story.
 
PokesSmott

PokesSmott

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God; that looks so cool. So you don't really have to do much with them after the stretch is done?................................................MICHIGAN growers unite. lol.
 
teddiekgb123

teddiekgb123

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Nope, just watch very closely for mold and other issues. Maybe the occasional leaf trimming and that's it. You better get a page going for that grow ya got in the pic.:eyesmoke:
 
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