Neat Growing Trick: Secondary Budding

Hey guys,

i was just reading Mel Thomas' book Cannabis Cultivation. In it he describes a technique called 'Secondary Budding'. Basically what it entails is, you veg your plants, top them, do whatever you normally do, and then send them into flower like usual. But 4 weeks into flower, when your plants have some nice looking buds on them starting to form, you switch the light cycle back to 24/0, forcing the plants back into veg state. This will cause new shoots to grow off of the branches, and elongate the spacing between budsites, giving potential for bigger bud growth on the primary buds, while also adding (almost doubling the amount of) budsites overall to your plant. After another 3-4 weeks of re-vegging (dont worry your primary buds will still have been growing, just slowed down a bit, but unaffected by the reversion to veg state), throw the plant back into flower. Youll almost double your potential yield.

This is an experiment to be tried by growers with more time on their hands who arent worried about harvesting as soon as possible. If anyone has ever tried this, please lemme know, id love to hear how well it works, because i may try it one day

-K1

I will try this after the holidays with an indica, me thinks White Rhino, cause I don't believe I have the room necessary (grow cabinet) for a sativa with 1 month + another 1 month of vegging.

But the advice sounds absolutely cool! Will keep you posted on outcome!

sounds good man, thanks for the reply -- Also, if you wanna read about it some more, either pick up Mel's book, or find the pdf format version online for free, but its a great read either way man. theres all kindsa cool tips n tricks of the trade in there to soak up.

shit, i had a "BUSH" i took all the upper buds off when they were done, left it in the room and less than 3 weeks later i had like a softball size growth on the bottom part of the plant, was way cool

Yes it works fine. I have almost doubled the yield in this way.

Your right about having to have the extra time on your hands tho. And another thing I found is if I let my plants finish without employing this method and then put my next load in to flower then the yield basically evens out.

Oh and it I found it works better with sativas or sativa dominant plants. Not so good for indicas that flower in 7 or 8 weeks as by the time I could kick them back into veg most of the buds were nearly ripe and not so potent after the reversal process. I dunno tho maybe if I'd switched the lights a little earlier?

Cool trick yes, but when you add up your own figures you find it makes no sense to do that.

4 weeks flowering
add 2-3 weeks reveg
8 or whatever weeks of more flowering

To equal almost double.. Almost? You could have run two crops through and had double for sure in that same time frame.

1+1=2

Well I guess everyone doesn't flip clones though do they. Nevermind...

TRICKKY said:

And another thing I found is if I let my plants finish without employing this method and then put my next load in to flower then the yield basically evens out.

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Thanks Oregon.
Thats what I meant

I need that book, and more. Thanks for posting this, King.

Trickky, thanks for the advice!

just make sure you dont have a hermie potential strain or plant. One gal, or should I say guy, or tranny or whatever, if u look at him/her/it the wrong way she will spit out some balls overnight.

no worries sea, its definitely worth the couple bucks you spend to get it, thats for sure.

N Oregon, yeah i know what you mean, n no i dont do clones at the moment as im still getting my bearings n wrapping my head around the whole growing universe, lol, but i do have specs in the works for a completely perpetual grow set up for when i move into my new house after the new year, so ill be able to see just how quick of a turnout flippin clones will give me. Was just a pretty cool section i read in the book, thats all man - tell big Mel hes an in-efficient grower,

Also, i dont know if any of you read the other thread i started earlier this morning, but i checked out another section of the book about a technique called 'air layering' -- i guess its a method involves creating a clone, complete with roots, that is still attached to the parent plant. A little surgery is involved on the clone site/perspective cutting. By cutting into the phloem and disrupting the flow of nutrients away from the selected area, while leaving the xylem still intact and still feeding the newly developing clone. When the drain of food back into the mother is shut off, the clone is able to utilize it in the production of new roots. The clone will be a complete genetic copy of the parent, inheriting all of her same characteristics, but will still be attached to the parent plant.

Now what i dont know, is wether its actually possible to continue to grow the clone while its still attached to the mother, im assuming its possible, not that it would make sense to do it, but it would be kinda fun to create some mutant plant, lol. Kinda Like that one episode of South park with that dude that had a fetus attached to his head

i tried that air layering shit to no avail. 3 wks and not shit.