I just realized how you can't really see the "look" of that plant in the picture I posted, so here's a few more:
I started out using those green sticks you can see in the image to "bend" the plant even further down, and would simply move the sticks every day or every 3 days, and make it grow across the side of the Greenhouse.
Here's another but after the mesh was added:
The top of the plant AND my misspelling of the name.... LOL
Another shot showing some of the "angle"
Stick placement that I used for keeping it Sideways (Even though it was planted in the ground sideways, it still would grow "up" so I used the sticks to keep it down).
And here would be one of the reasons I said TWO layers would probably be better..... The Side branches all went straight up, and cutting all the branches off facing the dirt seemed to make it branch out into a monster:
And finally...... Me learning that I should have cut more branches off that plant because it just went out in every direction:
Had I put some tent stakes or something else to hold mesh, I could have done a SCROG method outside in the yard as well, but I was trying to see if I could replicate someone's plant I'd seen who lives near by where they did Blue Cheese sideways, and all the side branches turned into tops, and I thought that was an interesting experiment, so I decided why not? And I think personally the reason it branched out into that MESS of branches, was probably due to pruning off all those branches that were facing the dirt.
It seems like when the plant is Vegging, if you take certain branches off, it makes the plant grow bigger / taller, but when you remove all of them off an entire side of the plant, it seems to simply go crazy if it's sideways.
I mean you can see a lot of those branches were hanging off, and ready to snap off at any given minute, so the mesh was mainly to start supporting that mess I made, and eventually we used a milk crate to hold up a HUGE branch that was almost on the ground.
Like I said we did have a branch snap off, and it was a MASSIVE branch in the back of the plant that was hard to see, and hard to get to, but my Fiance used a wooden skewer and some duct tape to put it back, which ended up working. The size of the plant did shock me a little, and having the metal of the greenhouse, I ended up tying branches up so they wouldn't lay over other sections.
Now if I was going for SCROG in that set up, I'd want a decent support structure because with that many branches from all over the plant, the weight that it ended up being after buds started forming made some branches just unstable in general, so you'd want SOME type of a support system to at least help hold the weight of the plant, but a mesh going across, and letting it grow into that, and then another layer of mesh on top of that layer and "sewing" branches into the mesh so they are held up by it, AND allowing Sun exposure at the same time, and of course NOT doing what I did and letting it become a mess, (Prune WAY more branches off so those bud sights gets decent sized buds) would probably work out OK
