reveging and outdoor plant? Any ideas?

[Randm]

I've got a real keeper plant, outdoors in the ground. The strain is Mr Nice, about 3 weeks from harvest. I could not get clones from befor she flowered ( my biggest mistake). Now I am wondering if it would be possible, after harvesting, to reveg her to keep the strain going?

My idea is to harvest, leaving a good amount of bud sites near the base of the plant. Then carefully digging up the rootball, and potting her in fresh soil. I will then bring her indoors under veg lights and give her a healthy dose of high N ferts as a booster to get her going. If succesful I would then get the clones that I should have got befor she flowered.

Any ideas on whether this sounds like a good idea? Has anybody done this befor? I have revegged indoor plants after harvesting, but those where generally much smaller and easier to work with. But I am so darn impressed with this strain that I am desperate to try anything to keep her going.

Any thoughts on this?

 

[Guerilla Gardener]

You got it Ace Bigger pot!!! let it acclimate to indoors and flush it, then start grow nutes.

 

[BustyGreene]

Yeah I'm actually in the process of getting my larry plant to re-veg. Although my plants are indoor I bet it will work. I didn't let her flower long enough and I want to try again so in the veg room she went. I hear they make good mothers because they become so erratic. Your just gonna have to be super careful with that transplant. Try to balance out the root to branch ratio once you get it out of the ground. Try it out!

 

[Randm]

Thanks for the input. I figure it would work if I can dig it out without doing too much damage to the roots. As I said, they are outdoors in a planter box. The soil isn't to deep, maybe 16 inches, but I'm sure the roots are spread out pretty good. The plants are in a 20 ft. x 3 ft. planter, 3 per planter. I tried taking a couple of small buds from the bottom of the plant as clones today, even though they are in flower. Lots of root hormone and some maxsea ferts (16,16,16). Just to see if they will survive. I have a couple of 7 gal planters that I can use for the revegging when the time comes to try it. That should be big enough I think.

I've found that re vegged plants can be awsome producers when they are put back into the flower room. Kind of like plants that have been topped and topped again several times over. They don't seem to stretch as much as a regular plant, so I let them get about 1/2 the size I want them to be when I do flip them back. I generally shoot for 3 to 4 footers finished size as that works well in my flower room as I have plenty of head room.

I'm just trying to preserve the strain and hope to plant more of them next spring in my outdoor grow. I'm just plain blown away by how well they are doing in the great outdoors and how quickly they are finishing out. I've been searching for a winner strain and this looks to be it. I just hope it smokes as good as it looks.

 

[mikeandnaomi]

Yes you 100% can. I just saw someone clone a 5 week into flower cutting. Once it rooted it'll take 5 weeks or so to fully get back into veg provided light is proper.

 

[Guerilla Gardener]

The trick is leave some of the growth.. no matter how tempting it is.. this plant will be a Kamaikazi , in that it will give you a first donation of clones.. then kill it and choose 2-3 clones to treat as mothers down the road.

 

[Randm]

Why kill it? After succesfully getting a batch of clones from her I'll just flip her back to 12/12. Or am I missing something here?

 

[Pissinyourtropicana]

Man please do some reading on propagation techniques, reveg and I believe monster cropping is what your looking for.

 

[Randm]

Man please do some reading on propagation techniques, reveg and I believe monster cropping is what your looking for.

Thats why I ask for guidence in these forums. Looking for input from those that have gone on befor me. Like I said, I have revegged indoor plants, just never tried it on outdoor plants that are much bigger and have a larger root mass.

Thanks again for all the help.

 

[Laney]

I am going to try this with 3 or 4 of my plants this year. I am going to do some breeding next year and I want to save these strains.

 

[eDude]

I'm nursing some clones from a plant that started to flower also. It's sucks but it can be done.

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[Laney]

I want to overwinter 3. I'm going to try grafting 3 scions to a rooted clone that I have already going.

 

[Xub420]

Trip! I just saved a little guy from a neighbor, and its in flower, unlike my plants(outdoor). Dude just kept it in a little pot in the backyard, so its just a lonely plant that needs some lovin. But its only about 6 inches. Im gonna force it to reveg with an indoor/outdoor extended light cycle. Cuz I want to see its potential, or at least close to what it could have been. Im hopin it works and i can keep her goin until december or so.

 

[Xub420]

I want to overwinter 3. I'm going to try grafting 3 scions to a rooted clone that I have already going.

My buddies Grandmother,,,Yes, Grandmother! Told us that she had grafted cannabis into a hop plant in her days! And she said it worked. I gots no proof though.

 

[Laney]

It works with cannabis. I think about as well (or better) than cloning. And tomatoes as a matter of fact! My breeding plan for nest year is to graft 6 fem scions onto a male plant

 

[BustyGreene]

My buddies Grandmother,,,Yes, Grandmother! Told us that she had grafted cannabis into a hop plant in her days! And she said it worked. I gots no proof though.

Read somewhere that they are in the same family. Hops were used as a sleep remedy.

 

[gagekko]

Trip! I just saved a little guy from a neighbor, and its in flower, unlike my plants(outdoor). Dude just kept it in a little pot in the backyard, so its just a lonely plant that needs some lovin. But its only about 6 inches. Im gonna force it to reveg with an indoor/outdoor extended light cycle. Cuz I want to see its potential, or at least close to what it could have been. Im hopin it works and i can keep her goin until december or so.

Saved? Is that a nice way of saying you stole it?!?

 

[MojoRison]

I've heard and always wondered what would happen if you tried this...now I know, thanks guys

 

[Randm]

I think I read 'somewhere' about overwintering a plant in the ground. I'm not sure of the validity of this but the idea was that after you harvest your plant, leaving a small amount of bud and growth on the bottom of the plant, and using straw bunched up around the plant to protect against winter frost and temps, just leaving it in the ground for the following year. Can this be done? Has anybody tried it? I was of the impression that since marijuana is more of an annual and that it would just die on you after it matured. The ground never freezes where I am ( north central calif.) so the roots would not be in danger and we only get around a week or two of snow amounting to a couple of inches annually.
What ya think, can it be done this way?

 

[Laney]

You should be able to do that with no problem because your ground doesn't freeze. I serioulsly doubt it for growing zone 6 or lower unless it's a very hardy landrace strain, like Mazar...maybe.