So am slowly getting the wheels turning for the first grow am going to grow 4/5 Crimea blue from seed in a SCROG set up. Now I've never grown anything at all (well unless you count sunflowers when I was 9 or so, and you can't smoke those) so below i've just listed what am going to pick up.

So to start the plants am going to use some of those little peat deals (not sure exactly what there called)
then am going to be transfering to 8cm pots with B&Q John Innes number 2
then transfering to 20cm pots with B&Q John Innes number 3 for the final phase.

So to all you more experienced groweres out there does this seem ok?? Have I missed anything blatently obvious here?? Any advice at all would be crazy helpful.

I am half way through my first compost grow using B&Q John Innes no 3, all the girls look healthy and it scored pretty good in these trials uk420 clicky

Are you going to sex your plants before using the scrog net?
Otherwise pulling males from a screen can get tricky.
Better to find a keeper out of your bunch of plants and scrog the clones.

Hi there,

I would only advise a scrog grow using known female plants.
You will have/most probably will have problems in removing any males that show.
Some people use individual scrog nets secured to the individual pots to get round this and help with manouverability.

Good luck with the grow.

Hi Chewable, good morning.

Have a look at the B&Q Sowing and Cutting compost (really good stuff imo) for the first couple of pots also their Multi Purpose is pretty good (Not the value one that's about a quid, well I dunno I've never used it)

I really don't get on with straight JI compost, added JI (To multi purpose) is better to work with, once again imo.

I was liking the Westlands +, but the last two bags I've had have been completely different to what they were like before, loads more crap added in!

Hope that helps

Yeah thaks for that quagmire, thats where I got the John Innes from



My seeds are going to be feminised so hopefully that shouldn't be a problem, but I will try and hold of screening them untill I can confrim the sex thanks

So what about those pot sizes are they ok??? How many times should I be transfering these bad boys??

Hiya CM,

I think Chrisesq said almost every thing you basically need to no, my own 2 pence worth is, depends on how long you want to train and veg the plant/s before you flower them in the SCROG. A lot of people who use the scrog, train usually 1 plant in to a massive bush bush and I mean, some are absolutely massive, with 10 to 20 or mors buds, but to acheive this size of plant, you will need a 20 to 25 litre pot. The bigger the pot, the more room the roots will have to grow and the bigger and better the root system is, the healthier and better quality end product. You will have to just keep potting up to bigger and bigger pots, until you reach the size of flowering pot you want to use. What evr size pot you use, let it root out fully before pottingup or putting in to flower.

In a scrog, the bigger the pot, the better, but if are going to use a 20 litre pot or bigger, then you need to do as much reading as possible on the scrog system, pruning, bending, topping and general plant maintenance and care, because if you grow in a big pot, you will have to train the lower branches to grow upwards and outwards, by suppressing the main growing tip and bending it, tie it down or removing it and you will have to do some light pruning to allow air circulation and bending and training to cause a chemical reaction in the plant, that will make her grow the lower branches outwards and upwards, if this is not done, you will end up with an 8 foot monster.

To do a decent scrog, takes quite a bit of knowledge and there is more work to it than doing a straight forward grow, because of the training of the plant involved, your goal is to try and get all the lower branches to grow faster than the main tip, so when you put her into flower, all the branches on the whole plant branch system must be with in an inch or so above or below the main growing tip, then all the buds will grow more or less at the same height through out the flowering. So the lowest branches on the plant could be 4 or 5 foot long, where as the branches just below the main tip, might only be 6 to 12 inches, depending on how long she was veg’d for. The more equal the hieght of the buds, the better the light distribution will be on all the buds.

I hope this helps, good luck,
GG

Green Goblin, I can't thank you enough for that mate, great bits of advice in there, I really appreciat you taking the time to help me out there mate, much appreciated!