so I've been growing small scale (generally between 3 and five plants) indoors as a hobby for going on ten years now. I've never really been interested in going large-scaleand I'm always pretty pleased with the results. nothing fancy or advanced,just a 400 watt MH light for vegetative growth, then switch to a 400 watt HPS during the flowering cycle, all in small movable containers using commercially available potting mix and a plain old 30 10 10 fertilizer in the vegetative Phase and a 12 55 6 for flowering.On my last go around, my best plant had a little sprig toward the bottom with no floral development on it. So, I decided to harvest by trimming everything else away and leaving just that little branch and seeing what would happen if I turned the lights back to 24 hours with that still attached. Well let me tell you folks, the results so far have been nothing short of amazing! I thought I had maybe a 50/50 chance of it doing anything but drying out and dying...but the growth rate of this little twig has been unreal! In a span of 14 days, it has gone from a little twig with four leaves on it do a full blown 8 inch tall bush that already has pistils on it under 24 hour lighting conditions! My guess is that the accelerated growth rate is the result of having a fully developed root system on what is basically a clone. If this is the result I am going to get every time, I'm going to give up on clones altogether and just keep regenerating my best plants! Thoughts? the attached pictures show day 1 and day 14.
regenerating flowered plants.
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so what you are saying is don't try to Reveg the same plant more than once?
that would be a shame, because this plant produced some killer bud!so what about taking clones from it? Same result?
qwizoking
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taking clones from a healthy plant are usually direct copies. it doesnt really stress them much. but your removing probably 90% of the plant mass after harvest, even if not the plant doesn't like to revert back to veg. it causes small mutations in genes, or adaptations by the plant. taking a clone on an unhealthy plant can give a bad clone.. like when a plant herms from environmental stress, a clone will be a herm..same thing
but reveged plants give good clones.you just can't keep doing it
but reveged plants give good clones.you just can't keep doing it
Jack Harer
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You got really lucky!! Last time I revegged some plants, I revegged some clones I took around 5 weeks into flower. They took a whole lot longer than that to start normal growth. There was some pretty freakish growth that occurred before they started looking normal as well. I'm wanting to say it took 6 to 8 weeks for them to fully revert.
kagecog
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Stressing the genetics??? Please explain?
While I did not notice any difference in bud quality when I attempted revegging, I did notice very slow growth to begin with and a LOT of mutant leaves, and in the end, I ended with a smaller yield than before. It may have just been me, but I felt like the buds were slightly more potent after revegging oddly?
Jack Harer
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Maybe just me, but I wouldn't replace cloning with revegging. Too much uncertainty.On the other hand, you can keep cloning clones till the cows come home.
green217
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Keep us posted on your results on the reveg, I am thinking of trying it myself when i chop. I've been looking around for info on revegging and I'm having trouble finding much out. I see people posting like you when they first begin but not much follow up info. Looks like it's worth trying to me. Why not try to take advantage of those fully developed root systems if we can!
Oh absolutely not. She's still way to small.