Hey Kade, what's up?
Looking good so far my friend. The stretch you may be stuck with lol.. a certain amount is just going to come. Good luck! You be breathing easier once she starts slowing down.
If you have the horizontal space, training will help you lower that canopy and encourage side branching. While I think SCROG has it's benefits (particularly maximizing use of space), it also has some drawbacks.
(1) Those screens are pretty immobile once the plant is trained into it. If you have to lift up your plants you're in trouble.
(2) Most SCROGS are flat, which is not the way light falls off. If you can imagine light intensity, it's greatest at the center and falls off at the edges. So truly flat by light standards would be a concave pattern (highest at the edges)
That being said, I followed a few of those links and lo and behold saw this;
http://www.mjp.com/gallery/data/500/10160P1170008-thumb.JPG
Suhweet! :banana:
What I've liked doing is using a training stick/dowel method (weighted at the bottom). They're mobile, very adjustable, and the best benefit is you can completely unhook them and rehook up back in about a 1/2 hour. Also you can train your plant in the pattern I described.
BTW, in my experience the time you spend training is minimal in either a SCROG or a LST/Training stick method, you just have to be consistent (give a little every day).
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