Bring it back into veggy?

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so i would like to keep my plant but its kinda too late
i could clone my bottom 2 nodes which are kinda worthless
but its already in flowering
and i read that it would decrease potency of the plant that it would soon become
so... my question is
is it unorthodox to cut off the buds, trim the plant down and bring it back into vegg with 24/7 light?
if not whats the reasoning behind it?
and if you can.... why dont people do this more often?
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is this just too stupid of a question for any one to answer?

 

[Xare]

Revegging is only done if you really need to keep that genetics alive.

Because it takes a very long time for the plant to fully revert to veg stage when you can finally take clones from it. It takes months.

 

[lilmafia513]

i've been curious about the same thing.
I knew a guy in central PA that used to do this and had a rotation for it, but don't remember how long it took to come back....

 

[MrFishy]

Actually it only takes about three weeks for new growth to begin. Depends on veg lighting.
Since many times we don't know the quality of the bagseeds, exotic strain X's are often discovered after cloning is practical, ie: in flower.
Re-vegging allows a grower to capture great strains for mothering up.


Regardless, if you wanna re-veg, be real careful w/water right after harvesting.

 

[lilmafia513]

Actually it only takes about three weeks for new growth to begin. Depends on veg lighting.
Since many times we don't know the quality of the bagseeds, exotic strain X's are often discovered after cloning is practical, ie: in flower.
Re-vegging allows a grower to capture great strains for mothering up.


Regardless, if you wanna re-veg, be real careful w/water right after harvesting.

would a 400 MH be too much light?
Probably run a chance of overwatering and things at this point huh?

 

[MrFishy]

would a 400 MH be too much light?
Probably run a chance of overwatering and things at this point huh?

I don't have an mh, but suspect your's would be great for this purpose, much quicker than my shop-lights.
Yes, gotta let the medium pretty much dry out, then feed full, balanced, nutes (like the living plant was used to) while taking into account your water is only supporting X amount of tiny new leave-letts, not the bush you just harvested.
Better no water than too much, by far, in re-veg (cuz there's moisture in the wood, bark, fiber, etc)

Allow harvested plant to rest before returning to 24/0, or whatever you use. I leave mine a day or two, just sitting around, then might stick them back under light. Big shock, getting your head and shit lopped off.

You'd only be leaving a little bit of growth, or a few nodes, down at the bottom of the plant. The rest is harvest.

The fuzzy pic below is a re-veg maybe 2 weeks after new growth (nodes) appeared, under fluros.
Once they get re-established, they re-vegetate quickly.

 

[lilmafia513]

I don't have an mh, but suspect your's would be great for this purpose, much quicker than my shop-lights.
Yes, gotta let the medium pretty much dry out, then feed full, balanced, nutes (like the living plant was used to) while taking into account your water is only supporting X amount of tiny new leave-letts, not the bush you just harvested.
Better no water than too much, by far, in re-veg (cuz there's moisture in the wood, bark, fiber, etc)

Allow harvested plant to rest before returning to 24/0, or whatever you use. I leave mine a day or two, just sitting around, then might stick them back under light. Big shock, getting your head and shit lopped off.

LOL!! Yup i would need a nap too!

 

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interesting...
so cutting it back to the first node
and cutting those nodes down...
what should the light cycle look like
24/0?
and how am i supposed to feed it nutes if i have to give it little to no water?

 

[MrFishy]

interesting...
so cutting it back to the first node
and cutting those nodes down...
what should the light cycle look like
24/0?
and how am i supposed to feed it nutes if i have to give it little to no water?

I use 24/0 under shoplights, for both heat and re-veg light. Better lights would probably mean 18/6 would be fine. These re-vegs' tend to be really thick and bushy anyway, and mine would likely benefit from a little stretch, which might allow me better light penetration lower on the plant.
The nutes would go in with the first, post harvest watering, in my case, a couple of weeks after cutting.
I base this on the fact that several I've watered too well too early have rotted.
The plants WANT to live and will use the moisture contained to pop out that first new growth. I wait until my pots are all but dry, then I feed them a balanced feed, on the weak side of normal.

 

[lilmafia513]

MR.Fishy, your the man!!!