If you have the space inside I would suggest repotting to at least a 3gal. pot. You’d be surprised how much yield you can lose because the roots ran out of space.
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Noted @FloridaSon. Thanks for the heads up. Once the onions are gone I should be able to swing a dozen 3 gallon pots in that space. Want to be able to start filling a waist high screen the entire time they’re in veg as soon as they get outside.
Yeah just the transplant a couple of weeks ago made a huge difference.
SourD 3 weeks ago
SourD yesterday
They’re only in pots for another month
they go in 3’ wide x 2’ deep holes mid May.
I would never grow in containers outside.
Looking like this 5’x60’ mesh that just arrived will give me approx 40sq ft of canopy availability per plant with 2’ between each on 10’ centers
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wish I had your stockpiles
[/quote]I think 2017 is going to match or exceed that last grow with only half as many plants. I’ve learned so much since then. All the great people here taught me more in 3 months than years of trial and error growing and searching here and there across the internet for knowledge.
Looks like I should be able to swing a 5x8’ SCROG over each of the DownEast 12 for almost 500 sq ft of canopy to fill but the time it all goes to flower.
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I think as far as scroggs go ,specially for a first time, mine is pretty darn good my friend @Willd 
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I will scrog few just to play and see, I am also topping some that includes some of the autos, I will also do some bending and other stuff…
But what I am really excited about is that I will have 2 of my best looking Gold leafs planted in the woods under a light tree canopy at southern exposure and I will just let it grow as much and as high as it wants to…
Got the feeling I will need a chain saw for the harvest…
Happy growing brother !!!
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##SCROG LAYOUT
Two 5x60’ screened rows spaced on 9’ centers with stems on 10’ centers. 85 day Pineapple Haze started 14 days ahead of the rest and placed in area of first shade. 55 day Strawberry Kush will be placed where shade occurs last.
FULL LAYOUT
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I see you got your scrog project tucked in the garden with some other crops…
It will be interesting mixture of wonderful plants…
Cant wait for the actual outdoor grow pics…
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Yes the snow can please GO AWAY now.
The melt and 2-3" layer of mud on the surface is slicker than goose crap at the moment. Low RH and sunny sunny skies will dry it up soon enough.
There is another 1680 sq ft of vegetables in a slightly smaller plot that abuts this one.
It will have 36 tomatoes, 408 onions, 408 carrots, 104 each of pinto, yellow-eye and calypso beans, 300 head of garlic. (The garlic we planted in Oct will be poking through the straw mulch in a week or 2) 88 habanero 88 assorted hot & sweet peppers, That still leaves about 600 sq ft open for kale, & herbs.
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Awesome, yours veggie project is on much larger scale than I do here…
I focus on garlic, tomatoes , russian bananas potatoes, squash and some broccoli and cabbage…
Rest of my beds I am dedicating more and more to different berries as my girls growing up they love it…
I absolutely love classic black currant …
Anyway, its fricking snowing here this morning winter just dont want to let go…
Tiresome !!
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Tiresome for sure. I think we’re done here until Oct or Nov again.
We have 900sq ft of raspberries too just across the yard.
One of our favorite July activities is going to Camden Hills State Park and walking on the hidden cliff trails hand picking quarts of wild blueberries and looking out at the islands and Sailboats beyond Camden Harbor. It’s like our own private blueberry patch!
The past 2 years we took a bunch of 1 gallon jugs and it all with a little liquid Kool Bloom solution when they start to show first signs of flowering. It has really increased the amount of berries we get now.
I’ll admit that’s where we get the most value from our annual State Park pass! ha ha ha.
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Love wild blueberries, where I came from they grow in mountains in large fields …
I used to go up and picked them all day long…
Great memories…
Your scrog project looks wonderful, it will be a great success I know it !!!
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No dry beans, huh? That’s one of my favorite things. The ROI is immediate and easily yields hundreds of times more than what you sow. We haven’t purchased beans or garlic (except to increase the number of varieties) since we started gardening at this location about 4 years ago.
That permaculture guy Will Bonsal, who I mentioned in another post is really quite an authority on seed saving and maintaining the integrity of all the different species of vegetables and flowers from all over the globe.
Our local farmer friends offer an extremely high number of heirloom varieties of potatoes and other vegetables commonly thought to only exist in 1-2 varieties.
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I have this garlic strain my friend got me from Croatia when he visited here 2 years ago…
It is fantastic ! Iam trying to multiply it many times over , but its hard, we love to eat it !
On other hand, I do understand the beans cultivation advantages, we just dont eat beens much almost none…
I do grow sweet peas as a green fertilizer to refresh the soild in different spots every year…
Also last year I made this awesome ketchup based on czech recipe, so a lot of more tomatoes this year and peppers…
I cant wait for spring to get here for sure…
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Yeah, the beans aren’t for everyone’s taste. I really love them though.
I make 2 cups of dry beans into something almost every week.
Today is hot and smokey chicken and bean soup. I had to roast up the leftover bones and skin from our roasted chicken on Sunday with some frozen pork bones from making ground pork to make some stock.
oooh Mrs WillD is a freak for home made ketchup. We made several recipes last season including one with a lot of carrot.
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Looks fricking delicious my friend, I am big pork eater myself, my gramdma raise 1 or 2 pigs every year for the family to share…
Eat a lot of beans back then 
Btw I cloned some Gold leaf and Blue dream today…
I think my B lue dream will be the plants I enter the Scrog challenge with…they are sooooo bushy already…
Ooh and got 2 small Royal Medic clones, they look kind of crappy now, hopefully they will do good…
1:1 thc cbd ratio …
Could you elaborate more on what you mean by 9’ centers, and 10’ centers? I LOVE the layout and design so I’m just trying to fully understand what you’re describing. I’m tilling my garden this week!
Sometimes I’m slow to understand things lol
No problem
In the first SCROG diagram the center of each rectangle has a dot. Those are each 10’ apart.
In the one below that it shows 2 rows with a 3’ wide walkway between them. That makes 8’ row spacing Sorry for saying 9’.
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Like how a seed packet says sow 1 inch apart in rows spaced 6-12 inches apart?
These are going to be planted 10’ apart in 2 rows spaced 8’ apart.
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Ok I got it now, I appreciate you taking the time to explain it more for me! You’re the man @Willd