Issue #642 - Sunday, August 11, 2024 Greetings Fellow Grower, Today's issue is all about getting your plants looking happy! - Get the benefits of ScrOG...without the work! The ScrOG technique is legendary for its ability to produce tons of weed, but it's so much work! Imagine if you could
somehow cheat and do it the easy way. Guess what? We found the cheat!
- If you grow lots, grow the good stuff! Here's a lesson I learned the hard way: If you're going to grow a bunch of one kind of weed - like with ScrOG (or faux-ScrOG) - make sure you really like the strain! Trust me on this one.
- We heard you like trichomes... So do we! If you don't like trichomes, or if you have a personal vendetta against them, keep away from
the Trophy Picture section. All that awaits you is hi-res stickiness and you're going to hate it. If you like trichomes, get down there!
Nebula Haze & Sirius Fourside
Co-Founders, GrowWeedEasy.com
"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid." ~Epictetus
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Easy Cannabis Training: How to “Scrog” without a Net! by Nebula Haze
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Click here to view the full article on GrowWeedEasy.com Growers often ask me for examples of training a cannabis plant for better indoor
yields. A plant that’s trained to grow wide and flat in the vegetative stage will produce more buds indoors than a natural-grown plant. Especially with smaller grow lights or a short setup. One popular way to create a flat cannabis canopy is a ScrOG which stands for “Screen of Green”. Basically, it means training plants to grow flat along a screen or net. Many growers use a ScrOG (screen of green) technique to grow flat plants like this awesome picture by Scroggo. Plants get trained along a screen or net in the vegetative stage.
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This flat plant shape maximizes yields under indoor grow lights by filling the entire grow space with buds. But is there an easier way to achieve the same result? Although the result is excellent yields, “scrogging” takes a bit of work. In addition to having to make (or buy) the screen and set it up in the grow space, the process of threading plants through the net can be time-consuming. On top of that, once the training process begins, plants can’t be moved independently. With their stems woven through the netting, plants are basically “stuck” on the screen until harvest. This can
make it difficult to water plants and/or access the middle. Today you’ll learn how to make a “scrog” without a net. Get the same results with less effort! The resulting plant was less than 20″ (50 cm) tall at harvest and look at all those buds! Today I’ll share an alternative method to achieve similar results. This method of training plants to grow flat gives the same general outcome with less work and allows you to still move and access the plant as needed. Here goes! Faux Cannabis “Scrog” Technique1.) Remove tops as plant grows I cut off the top of the main stem (also known as “topping” the plant) after about 5 sets of leaves (5th node). This breaks the apical dominance and causes the plant to grow more wide and bushy instead of growing in a Christmas tree shape. There isn’t a perfect or best time to top a plant, though most growers do it above node 3-6. Topping above the 5th works well every time so that’s what I
do. As the plant grows, make sure to cut off the tops of any stems that start getting taller than the others. This simple system (let’s call it the “top any tall stems” training regimen) ensures no stem gets significantly taller than the others while creating multiple branches. This works well with any photoperiod (not auto) cannabis plant, including asymmetrical clones like this one, which aren’t great candidates for more structured techniques like manifolding. Pay attention as the plant grows. If any stem seems to be getting taller than the others, cut off the top. Other than that, I didn’t do anything but spread the plant out and let it grow wild. Don't Use (faux) ScrOG
...unless you've got good seeds!Every grower knows that a successful ScrOG is a path to having way too much bud occupying your home. But how sad would it be to go through the trouble of doing a ScrOG - just to end up with a truckload of subpar weed? If you're going to grow a lot of one strain of cannabis, it better be
good! Don't get stuck with shelves filled with jars of weed you don't like. Start with strains you can't get enough of, like these! Platinum Cookies by SeedSupreme.com - This strain is so good that Nebula wrote a whole article on it! If you ever grow multiple strains at a time and one disappears long before the others, you might be onto a winner. Platinum Cookies always seems to disappear before its roommates...
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📸 Weekly Plant Spotlight: Trichomes so close, we got lost in them!
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Here is my last picture at HARVEST. Very pleased with this grow. Hope all is well. ~VCJ
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This hi-res image of trichomes speaks for itself (click the image to see it closer). We've come a long way from the days of a 320x240 image of tiny trichomes. You're doing this Kushberry Moonrocks justice, for sure! ~Sirius Recommended Cannabis Seed Sources
These sources have gotten great reviews from our readers:
- Seed Supreme – California, United States
- ILGM (I Love Growing Marijuana) – California, United States
- North Atlantic Seed Co. – Maine, United States
- MSNL – Netherlands bank with shipping centers in the US, Canada, and UK.
GrowWeedEasy.com has hundreds and hundreds of pages! Check out more resources related to today's main theme of solving common plant issues. - LBH’s Famous ScrOG Tutorial - So you saw
our easy version of the ScrOG (faux-ScroG), but you thought it was too easy. Or maybe you want even more weed than is reasonable to harvest at once. The standard ScrOG technique will work for you, and its harvests will reward you in a way that no other cannabis training technique can.
- Bigger Buds with Nebula’s Easy Manifold - Manifolding is Nebulas
version of the famous Mainlining technique developed by Nugbuckets. If you want to harvest an absolute profusion of bud without extra equipment, all while making it look neat and orderly, this is the way.
- GWE’s Best Cannabis Seed Banks in 2024 - Did you know that GWE is only two people and that we pay for everything we try out of our own pockets? We do
that so that if someone makes a subpar product, nothing holds us back from telling you the truth. Our seed list follows the same principle and we stand behind any bank good enough to make our list.
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Who Runs This Newsletter?
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Nebula Haze: When I first started growing, I struggled. Now, it is my mission to make it easy for new growers to get started while helping advanced growers get bigger, better yields with less time and money. We update/add articles every week. Anyone and everyone can grow if they want to! Learn which seed sources are recommended by Nebula Haze Sirius Fourside: Sirius Fourside is a hobbyist grower who has gained the bulk of his experience growing in water as a medium (deep water culture, bubbleponics). "Growing
cannabis can be a relaxing hobby in and of itself, but it also saves you money and keeps you from having to deal with shady characters. Cannabis is much easier to grow than people give it credit for, and growing in water doesn't increase the difficulty much, if any. But whether you want to grow in water, coco, or a different medium, we'll show you how easy it can be!" Copyright (c) 2024 GrowWeedEasy.com NOTE: If links aren't working or if pictures are not showing up properly, please view the full newsletter here: http://archive.aweber.com/gwe-updates Disclaimer: Grow Weed Easy only recommends products that we've either personally checked out ourselves, or that come from people we know and trust. For doing so, we may receive a commission. Nothing in this e-mail should be considered personalized Financial, Legal, or Medical Advice. The contributors to this magazine grow legally under their local laws but are not lawyers or medical professionals. Any decision to grow
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