Harvest then back to veg??

Is it possible to flower a mother then harvest the buds then throw the motehr back into veg and grow her again?

yessir-regeneration

Yes, just harvest the ripe buds, put the plant back under an 18-6 light schedule and in about 4 weeks the plant will have hopefully fully reverted back to the vegitative growth stage.

Good luck!

you would be better off cloning

I harvested the fruits of my plants and then veged them out again. Then took some clones, veged for another couple of weeks and through them back into flower. The plants are about 24 to 36 inches with multiple shoots. Very bushy and budding quite nicely. This is the first time I have done this so its just kind of an experiment. So far so good. The only thing that I can see is that this time in flower the fan leaves are turning yellow but the buds are still green and frosted. I plan to keep doing this just to see how many times this is possible. From harvest to veg is not so long. The clones I took are 12 inches and taking off nicely but the mother plant is almost ready to harvest again. So far so good.

yea man u better opff cloning or juss growing a whole new plant going through the reveg shit take a good 3 weeks to a mkonth

ovechkin8 said:

Is it possible to flower a mother then harvest the buds then throw the motehr back into veg and grow her again?

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Yes YES YES

The nice thing about a re-veg is that there are so many new nodes that they are easy to clone from. Leave as much leaf and bud as you can stand to waste, and then re-vert back to 24hrs. I had one plant take like 6 weeks to start veging again, so it can be a slow process. I was about to start a thread on this topic when I read yours. check it out. This is a great way to maintain genentics. I actually ended up re-veging, because someone told me they did this exclusively. Because of the way the plants responded, they are stronger and more importantly OLDER clones that you will cut, that grow way faster with beefy stALKS
that's my $.02

thank you all for the responses! my plant is a seedling now 2 inches with like 4 tiny 3 tip fan leaves, but i plan on growin her till she is a foot tall take 6 clones let em gorw a couple weeks then start flowering once ready to harvest the mother will go since she will be too big for my area...i will pick the best of the 6 clones and make her the new mom hopefully this will continue, although im in very early stages atm


thanks to everybody for their 2cents

How do I regenerate/rejuvenate/reveg a plant after harvest?


After the buds are harvested, you may realize just how much you want to perpetuate a plant you neglected to take cuttings from. Cut the main stalk down to the point where below several growth tips or buds are remaining. Return the plant to a vegetative fertilizer and photoperiod. Over the next several weeks, the plant will elongate and devlop new upward growth. It is very important not to overwater the plant after it has been cut back. The reduced above ground plant structure is still being fed by the entire existing root system, which can cause an excessive amount of water uptake and the resultant stress associated. The use of products containing ammonium form nitrogen, such as chicken manure or Genesis Formula Grow 2 will encourage rapid growth and stem elongation. Trace element supplemenation, co2 and 24 hour lighting are helpful.


has more on it in grow faq

Wait this there is some contradicting stuff...

The nice thing about a re-veg is that there are so many new nodes that they are easy to clone from. Leave as much leaf and bud as you can stand to waste, and then re-vert back to 24hrs. I had one plant take like 6 weeks to start vegging again, so it can be a slow process. I was about to start a thread on this topic when I read yours. check it out. This is a great way to maintain genetics. I actually ended up re-vegging, because someone told me they did this exclusively. Because of the way the plants responded, they are stronger and more importantly OLDER clones that you will cut, that grow way faster with beefy stalk

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Okay YES I understand that you can get clones and all from this re-vegged mother BUT If I'm not mistaken Don't the clones take LONGER to root and Isn't it also recommended to take clones with "younger*" genetics off a mother when you clone? ex. Don't try to clone with the very top cola/branch when you could use a lower branch etc.

YES I also understand "why would you want to do that in the first place, etc...."

*branches on the bottom were formed first with earliest genetics (the books say so... I on the other hand don't exactly know)



Also In theory I agree with you more than the books and net etc... An Old mom has taken more stress, she has been shaped and defined.
AND this is in my current experiment Im doing with the clones that came from a mother who withstood nights of -8C to -9C snow, hail (all too often) Heavy winds (stalk was FAT) and everything else, The best was the Frost Dress... well actually over an inch 1" of thick frost. No problem! SO does she carry these same HEROIC traits? IMO Yes but many readings seem to push in the other direction stating the original genes are to blame.

The other direction is that the plants enivronment works with the plants DNA/ original genetics copied from the start of life in this case a Happy Bean. And it grows from there, wether its a clone from week 8 or a clone from week 16. They all Grow to SUIT there own needs using the original genetics as it can to ehlp the SUITING of the environment.

Yes lots of crap and scratch, but this has plagued me for so long! HELP!

I don't know what to tell ya. I know that mother plants can live to be real old. Seems that these clones take off just fine. plus I can grow a taller buds with cuttings taken from say a 12" cutting Vs. a 6" cutting. I think the older a plant perhaps the less it may want to stive, so like the veg growth may slow. i dunno they seem to do fine

so what i learned is you can reveg and if you put a fan on the plant blowing kinda hard the stalks will fatten up. and when you can the plant cut the main stalk shorter than the other branches