Made a custom fit SCROG for my 5’x5’ tent. Easy to make. $28. All parts and pieces I got from Home Depot. Pipe size it up to you judt remember it’ll be a little bit more $$ the bigger the pipe size. I went with 1" cpvc. You can either just cut it off at harvest or untie it an reuse the line.
-I started off by measuring my ideal/max canopy size.
-take into consideration the length you add with the fittings i cut the cpvc to length.
-i dry fit the frame together and pulled an face to face measurements from corner to corner piece all the way around.
-depending on what size holes you want in your net, divide the length of the measurement (the measurement you got from the last tab) by the size hole you want. In my case it was 53.5"÷3.5 and i got 15 squares.
-mark the middle of each piece of your frame and from there make a mark half the size of your hole on either side of your middle mark. In my case, from the middle mark, i made a mark 1.75" on either side of the middle mark creating my first 3.5" square.
-from there continue marking your lines the size of your holes until you hit the ends.once you have 1 all marked up you can take it all apart and match the marking to the other 3 pipes.
-now the tricky part is to drill a pilot hole with a bit a little smaller than the screw you wanna use down the center line of all your frame pipes. (I laid my pieces down next to a 6’ level on a flat surface and drew a straight line the length of the pipe with a marker through all the marks i just made for the lines)
-now take your screws (i chose flat heads for the cone shape to keep line on better) and put a screw in every pilot hole you drilled.
-now put it all back together with the screws facing outwards.
-i used mason line and made a loop on one end and hooked it on the first screw near a corner.
-run the line across the inside of the frame to the screw in the same position.
-pull snug then go once around the screw an over to the next one inline keeping it tight.
-wrap once around the next screw head than back across the inside of the frame. Continue until you get all the way across.
-now that the first layer is done you’re gonna wanna start the lines running across the other way. Start off with another loop around the first screw head.
-this next set of lines are a little different. You wanna start by going over the top of the first line you’re crossing. And going under the one after that. Over then under then over then under until you hit the other side. Make sure you’re keeping the line tight.
-wrap once around the screw parallel to the one you started on and go over to the next screw. Wrap around it once. Keeping it tight start going back across frame weaving over an under until your net is complete.
-end of lines can be tied off or taped down whatever you want to do.
- with the open 1" side out in each corner is where you’re gonna put in the legs for the screen. Everyone has different set ups so the height or length to cut the legs is up to you to decide.
Hope this is helpful to anyone looking to make a homemade SCROG net!!!
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