Phrank, bonsai plants have been around for centuries! (Seriously, CENTURIES! look up the history of bonsai). Orientals started & spread the practice. It was a popular thing in the 70s during the houseplant fad. I bonsai'ed cuttings (not yet called clones back then) from my fav fem for mass seed production back in the mid 70s, for the purpose of keeping pollen covered seed mommas out of my sensimellia grow. Chance of the fans spreading pollen. Didnt know or care if anybody else was making bonsai herb plants or not, it was just my thing to try & it worked. I'm constantly suprised that everybody thinks this is a 'new' thing.
- Sorry Pnut. Had to make a point. Scrog isn't as new as everybody thinks either. Back in the 60-70s, all we had to grow was bag seed from sativas. Knowing it would never finish before hard freeze in late fall, we bent them over & held them down with rusty chicken wire to hide those tall bitches & to make it easier to cover with shading material to get a 10/14 photoperiod to induce flowering earlier. Scrog came from that. Just remember that very little is actually new.
- Sorry again Pnut.... here's your thread back!
P.S. I first heard of the chicken wire 'scrog' from tomato farmers having problems with land turtles taking a bite from the bottom of each tomato, thus ruining their profits. They'd grow through leaving the chicken wire between the ground & the fruit.
- Sorry Pnut. Had to make a point. Scrog isn't as new as everybody thinks either. Back in the 60-70s, all we had to grow was bag seed from sativas. Knowing it would never finish before hard freeze in late fall, we bent them over & held them down with rusty chicken wire to hide those tall bitches & to make it easier to cover with shading material to get a 10/14 photoperiod to induce flowering earlier. Scrog came from that. Just remember that very little is actually new.
- Sorry again Pnut.... here's your thread back!
P.S. I first heard of the chicken wire 'scrog' from tomato farmers having problems with land turtles taking a bite from the bottom of each tomato, thus ruining their profits. They'd grow through leaving the chicken wire between the ground & the fruit.
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