How bad is "the stretch" in Cinderella 99?

[dan kay]

might want to check out if hempkat posted any of his tomato cage scrogs of his c99 feminized i remember seeing on OG as it went down. those plants won't stretch to fill a 2-3 foot circular screen the way they are now.

 

[Vern Equinox]

skryllz, Thanks man, for the kind words. I got pretty inspired myself when I saw G_MAN's pics on Google (shortly after OG went down); I knew within 30 seconds I was going big with this concept. I guess the pics have been around here for 6 months or so, and I'm shocked nobody's tried it in a C13 or C22. These fucking plants are growing themselves, man, and I'm telling you I'm freaking pumped, and you should be too! I think I'm looking at @ 50 sqft of screens filled on this first run, my first run, and there's no reason these figures can't be duplicated, or exceeded by anyone on this site that cares to try. BTW, I haven't even installed my upper lights yet; all my growth so far has been with two 150s.

As for the scrog method, I kinda am shooting for the "five inch buds growing into the light" result. My plants were so big, I put one in the 2 inch gap (left side) and pulled all branches through evenly spacing them out. The middle plant is growing between the center screens supplying both tubes' inside flowers, and the left plant has spread out and up quite a bit.

Dan Kay, those pics are 2.5-3 weeks old; all plants are @ midpoint (with only their existing heights left in available vertical space) so, if they come close to 100% stretch, we're at @ 50-55 sqft filled!!!!!

 

[skryllz]

I'm thinking of setting up something like G_MAN has with the two big bucket like totes stacked up. Depending on the height of the totes I was thinking maybe a 30" tall screen with an 18" diameter lit with two 125w Hydrofarm CFLs.

 

[Delta9-THC]

the doctors right...... (doctors orders)

C99 is a keeper for sure!

DK.... tomato cage scrogs you say .... will have to find out more!
skryllz ....I am thinking the same .... G_MAN = The Man
PEACE!

 

[dan kay]

vern if those pics are that old lets see some new ones

 

[Vern Equinox]

I'm thinking of setting up something like G_MAN has with the two big bucket like totes stacked up. Depending on the height of the totes I was thinking maybe a 30" tall screen with an 18" diameter lit with two 125w Hydrofarm CFLs.

Yeah skryllz, if you can swing those dimensions, you're at @ 12 SQ FT of flowering screen! So if you fill out and can get 10g/SQ FT, that's a QP for one of the good guys! And yes, people are using compact fluros for this concept as well; see this Italian scrog:




dan kay, final screen placements/upper lights installation happens tonight, with pics (but yes, from the same crappy camera). It's been seven days since the switch. When looking at them, keep in mind all the greenage you see was produced with two 150s, hung bare and vertical. I haven't even had a fan inside this cab since day one, as the Hurricane provides plenty of movement, and I also remember a poster (Either Krusty, or a prominent K-Buckets follower) saying something like,"No fans never did no grow, no good." I just wanted to see if I could eliminate the noise of 2 or 4 120 computer fans...and thusfar all is going well without them. But, buds'll be growing into the lights soon enough, so time to hash this one out. Anyway, major picture update in a day or two.

Also, in regards to the stretch, I purposely didn't install the second set of lights yet to see if it would have an effect on the tallest plants (not havin a light above to stretch to) while letting the shorter plants "stretch" up to equal height (being that they're lower than the lights). (O.K., I did have a capacitor issue I was looking at that delayed installation as well, but spit happens.) It's worked, as all plants are @ equal height, but the lateral stretch on the tallest plant is amazing, as I guess all the "stretch" that didn't happen vertically had to come out somehow. Now I have tons of bud sites to reposition (poor me!) on the one side...I hope there's not too many that they all don't get proper light. Week two of flowering, the upper lights go on and hopefully all these suckers will pack it up and head North.