Continuing Flower After Harvest

I'm new to growing (3rd grow) and I saw a video where the grower harvested the top main buds and left the lower popcorn buds to "fatten up" under the light for more weeks. Is this possible and how do I go about it? He didn't go into detail.

cuban_black23 said:

I'm new to growing (3rd grow) and I saw a video where the grower harvested the top main buds and left the lower popcorn buds to "fatten up" under the light for more weeks. Is this possible and how do I go about it? He didn't go into detail.

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u can but it would be a wast of time and light just lst or super crop so the light reaches the whole plant the lower buds dont fatten up that much

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rob333 said:

u can but it would be a wast of time and light just lst or super crop so the light reaches the whole plant the lower buds dont fatten up that much

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Thanks for the quick response. I'm not familiar with those terms. Here is a pic of my set up. 400w hps 4 plants. Clockwise from bottom left; Critical Sensi Star, Barneys Farm Critical Kush, Barneys Farm Blue Cheese and Sweet Black Angel. They're all in 3 gallon pots and in the 2nd week of flower. Any tips would be appreciated.

cuban_black23 said:

I'm new to growing (3rd grow) and I saw a video where the grower harvested the top main buds and left the lower popcorn buds to "fatten up" under the light for more weeks. Is this possible and how do I go about it? He didn't go into detail.

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Ive seen it done u chop whata rdy cheak trichomes of bud the lower less mature budz u leave rest u chop and the bottom buds will mature and fatten up

just trie it with my critical hog as it doesnt produce well topped and the leaves are so fat they block out the lower buds of light. so at 8 weeks i just used a pair of cutters and cut the stem 5 sets of branches down so i got all the tops, that was 4 days ago, ill give it another 4-5 days and chop the rest but the buds are getting bigger now because they are getting more light

Better bet is just do a complete re-grow. Harvest as normal but leave a double-handful of greenery around the base of the plant. After harvesting put her back to veg for 3-4 weeks. Then flower as normal. Re-grown plants usually produce more than the first harvest as you have grown 2 buds for every bud in the first harvest. It is tough to successfully re-grow tall scrawny plants so count on using the bushier plants to re-grow. Good luck, BigSteve.

bigsteve said:

Better bet is just do a complete re-grow. Harvest as normal but leave a double-handful of greenery around the base of the plant. After harvesting put her back to veg for 3-4 weeks. Then flower as normal. Re-grown plants usually produce more than the first harvest as you have grown 2 buds for every bud in the first harvest. It is tough to successfully re-grow tall scrawny plants so count on using the bushier plants to re-grow. Good luck, BigSteve.

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that sounds insane

bigsteve said:

Better bet is just do a complete re-grow. Harvest as normal but leave a double-handful of greenery around the base of the plant. After harvesting put her back to veg for 3-4 weeks. Then flower as normal. Re-grown plants usually produce more than the first harvest as you have grown 2 buds for every bud in the first harvest. It is tough to successfully re-grow tall scrawny plants so count on using the bushier plants to re-grow. Good luck, BigSteve.

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havnt seen that done before, as ive heard that reverting your flowering lady back into veg degrades the potency because of stress..i have reverted plants before but only in a pinch to save the strain and i usually dont revert the entire plant, i take a couple cuttings and root them under 24 hours of light so by the time they have roots they are already back into the vegative state.

bigsteve said:

Better bet is just do a complete re-grow. Harvest as normal but leave a double-handful of greenery around the base of the plant. After harvesting put her back to veg for 3-4 weeks. Then flower as normal. Re-grown plants usually produce more than the first harvest as you have grown 2 buds for every bud in the first harvest. It is tough to successfully re-grow tall scrawny plants so count on using the bushier plants to re-grow. Good luck, BigSteve.

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Also some strains, critical hog in particular yield far less if topped,even though there are more tops they are smaller than the single cola you wouldve gotten if left untopped. the 4 tops would be like 6-7 inches tall and maybe4 inches in girth wile a single cola on a critical hog can be as big around as your wrist and 12-15 inches in height.

"that sounds insane".

And you have been growing how long? I harvest a hundred plants a year for years. Probably re-grown 50-60 plants over the years. Got 2 re-grows now in my veg room and another flowering. How many have you grown/re-grown? Lincoln once said that it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt. Find a forum where you actually know about the topic. BigSteve.

ya, people harvest "what's ready," and let the rest keep going all the time. makes perfect sense. you can re-veg and keep going if you want. just make sure you have some growth tips left. if you have no growth tips, then you can't keep her going. do a search and you'll prob. find someone doing what you want to do, just copy them.

bigsteve said:

"that sounds insane".

And you have been growing how long? I harvest a hundred plants a year for years. Probably re-grown 50-60 plants over the years. Got 2 re-grows now in my veg room and another flowering. How many have you grown/re-grown? Lincoln once said that it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt. Find a forum where you actually know about the topic. BigSteve.

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been growing for over 10 years, normally harvest 25 plants every 50-56 days, sometimes longer depending on the strain..as i said i have regrown a few times and know it works, but for me i normally grow from seed or clone depends on what my patients need at any given time. i normally have an indica, a sativa, and a couple hybrids , however if a customer wants somthing i dont have growing i let them go through my 90+ strains of seeds and pick somthing. or they can give me the money and ill order it. my local dr. dispencery gives me some leeway as theres not enough caregivers to cover all the patients but i still have rules and regulations i need to follow.. regrowing, it works well for you thats great, but not all growers can, or have the time and space to do that..i just have a question on regrowing,, if i harvest the top part of my plant and then throw her back into veg how many weeks would you normally veg her for before flowering her again?? i dont know how well it would work in dwc as moving her would probably break some roots..

bigsteve said:

Better bet is just do a complete re-grow. Harvest as normal but leave a double-handful of greenery around the base of the plant. After harvesting put her back to veg for 3-4 weeks. Then flower as normal. Re-grown plants usually produce more than the first harvest as you have grown 2 buds for every bud in the first harvest. It is tough to successfully re-grow tall scrawny plants so count on using the bushier plants to re-grow. Good luck, BigSteve.

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I wonder why more of us don't re-veg and flower. Why do you suppose that is? I could see the soil getting kind of worn or unbalanced if it's a soil grow. Maybe it doesn't save that much time. Any thoughts?

Great looking plants!

On my last grow I grew Big Bud x Northern Light. The main cola pretty much shaded out the lower portion of the plant but it had some very nice fat buds going down below. I harvested the main cola then waited about a week to chop the rest. I didn't chop the lowers initially because while the top had nice orange pistils the lower portions still had a lot of white.

Another consideration may be lighting. If you use lights that don't penetrate very well (Like me) then it may be an option.

In this case I think it worked well, but probably not the best in every case.

Why do want to do this?

butsack said:

Why do want to do this?

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To maximize yeild

cuban_black23 said:

To maximize yeild

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In my opinion replacing them with new ones would be better time wise and economically.

I really try to not have any buds futher than 1-1.5' feet under the canopy, so I lollipop each of my branches to accomplish this, as anything 1.5' under the canopy seams to produce larfy 'popcorn'. I purposely try to avoid having any 'popcorn' that is so under developed I have to resort to harvesting in 'stages'

If you harvest in stages and it takes you an extra two weeks each round to 'fatten up the popcorn' you could get 5 harvests in the same amount of time as 4 + two weeks each time to fatten up the larf. Something to think about...

sunny747 said:

I wonder why more of us don't re-veg and flower. Why do you suppose that is? I could see the soil getting kind of worn or unbalanced if it's a soil grow. Maybe it doesn't save that much time. Any thoughts?

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i think reveging takes more time than to have new plants ready to bloom as soon as you harvest the old. maybe it woulld be good for someone with just 1 room..i grow in dwc dont know muck about soil but i would think as you the soil would get bad after a wile revegging...i stick to what i know, clone,root,veg,flower repeat

"i just have a question on regrowing,, if i harvest the top part of my plant and then throw her back into veg how many weeks would you normally veg her for before flowering her again??"

I moved 2 re-grows from my veg room to my flower room yesterday. It had been 23 days since they were first harvested. I usually watch them while vegging and here is what to look for -- first, the small buds left on the plant after harvest have all turned dark and disappear. Second is being able to see new green growth at the top of the re-growing plant. After 3-4 weeks vegging they go back to flower.

Someone else asked why bother re-growing. Answer is more yield in less time. A 3-4 week veg time cuts weeks off the normal seed to flower time. Re-grows also "finish" faster the second time around. A blueberry strain I use a lot will finish as a re-grow after 5+ weeks flowering, 7-10 days faster the second time. Yield - my re-grows average 125-175% of the first harvest. That's using the same pot, the same dirt and the result is faster finishing plants with a greater yield.

Re-growing is perfect for the commercial grower. Perpetual grows require the grower to be able to predict when plants will be ready for the next room. With fast reliable plants I can better move my plants from the nursery (clone domes) to middle school ( veg room) to high school (flowering room). Graduation is much easier when my timing is accurate. Re-growing helps the timing as well as all the other advantages.

Good luck, ya'll. BigSteve.