Im about to start my first indoor grow (my first grow is currently outside 5 weeks into flowering) now when i put my screen above my plants, do you guys top/fim them? or do you guys just let them grow up and spread them out across the screen? and you switch it to 12/12 when the screen is about 80% filled and the tops are even right? here is my thread with my possible grow setup and strains that i will be setting up this week
Well if i were you I would top it atleast once and then keep tieing the branchs down preading acrosed teh bottom of the screen, dont let the plant touch the screen til you switch teh lighting to make it flower.
yep just keep tieing them down on a regularily and they will grow wich ever way you want when u start to flower let them stretch to the screen and then when the buds realy start coming they should be above the screen maybe a little but inside the screen to but thats ok.
thanks for the info, im hopefully starting next week. ive been reading up like crazy and didnt know if you were to tie them down when they were young or not.
go ahead and LST or FIM under the screen, but it really doesn't matter. Now I avoid topping as the SCROG screen wil cause a ton of branching once the plants are grown up into it. No need to loose the stunted growth time associated with topping. Wait unti your screen is 80% full before flowering Grow the plants up to the screen and keep pulling the plant back UNDER the screen so that it goes horizontally.