Rusty's Bonsai Downsizing...

Thanks Opie...For me, this is a great technique. Not one I'll discard any time soon.

The versatility of the downsized re-veg is phenominal, and the ladies love the fresh soil, fresh nutes...Likely not too appreciative of the pedicure and haircut, but thet recover very quickly.
If I had to set-up another small veg room just for the bonsai's, I'd do it. But right now, I am doing fewer seedlings and clones than was necessary before.

I did discover something...but not too sure I know what the implications are...
Early July I had a Shishkaberry on it's second re-veg, and I stressed her a bit with an aspirin tea, (aspirin stressing to promote nanners) Once I got enough pollen, I cut the lady back, trimmed the roots and downsized. I wanted to see what happens when you re-veg a forced hermie.

Any guesses how the (forced hermie) Shishkaberry reacted to re-veg and re-flower?
Well...I kept a close eye on her throughout the flowering process. I just harvested her, and de-constructed (cleaned) the buds. No nanners and not one seed. This is not scientific, and I am not telling anyone out there to try this, but it is an interesting development worth (my) trying again with a couple of different strains and a camera.

Have noticed on the normally studly Shishkaberry (sativa dominant) that after re-veg, the branches are thinner than normal, and do need bamboo stakes to support the budweight. :(

For the most part tho, all the strains I've tried have worked fine. My Potent Purple and my Swazi (both sat's) are fine with the re-vegging process, as are my indica's and indica doms. :thumbsup:

great thrread keep up the good work....

ya rusty this thread is bomb... you should post the pictures of the diesel plants in flowering stage.

Hey Rusty your thread here inspired my first bonsai ! Shes doing good now , took a while to vedge again butg guess I left to many buds on her....

Anyways shes growing into this amazing little bush now with new shoots everywhere. I was thinking of taking a bunch of clones off of her, sticking her in a vedge chamber, and proceding to flower the clones sog style.

BUT now after seeing this amazing new growth, Im tempted to take a FEW clones ...and the flower MOM in a scrog.

Would save at least a week of rooting/clone vedge time I think...

Anyways..how many times have you flowered/chopped/reveged/flowered/ect a single plant...Im just amazed by how resilient our wonderful plnat is !

Great to hear other's having success, too. Truly warms my heart. :thumbsup: Was a technique I read about somewhere, and fell in love with. I was equally impressed with the ammount of new growth.

The most I've done is 7 complete harvests, (twas an indica dom.) and shitloads of clones over that period. I got bored with the same strain all the time, and made room for another. With sativa doms, I've only gone a few complete harvests. Time to finish, and stretching are issues I'm seeking remedies for. Likely a sat dom would be great for sog training during/after re-veg, tho.

Always pick the best performer, with the best attributes of your strain, not just the first one available, lol.

I found that after trimming roots, and re-potting with fresh soil, if I do a mini-flush (equal to volume of pot) and on the last half gallon or so I add 1/2 dilution of humic acid (Soil Syrup) the roots go apeshit, which hastens her new growth.

I am going to crop today, and give the re-veg a try on the 40 i have now. i have lots of room so should be interesting as hell.
Will post after cutting today.

I had the worst spider mite problem I ever seen, just devistated my crop, and i tried everything including a preditor mites but could not control them at all.

Anyway good idea and good Grow. Thanks

Sully

Good luck with 'em. You won't be disappointed, I'm sure. :thumbsup:

Will you have room for 40 plants in flower...or after transplant? If not, could you continue with veg for half of 'em and flower the other half? But it could become a headroom issue in veg, and requires seperate veg and flower rooms.

p.s. It's not my technique, but I do love the results.

thanks for sharing the info Rusty..im gonna try it as well after harvesting pp. should i start off with no grow neuts for a few weeks just like normal too let her re veg a bit..

After I chop, dunk and flush...I resume a normal feeding schedule of a half weekly dose, twice a week. (Monday's and Thursdays for me) They do just fine, but of course keep an eye on 'em.
I would not recommend full doses (one weeks worth at a time) of nutes till re-established. :thumbsup:

I always give half nutes twice a week as a rule from teen-ager to harvest. Less stress in my heat-stressed enviornment, and seems to keep 'em on an even keel.

hay rusty,would you get a decent yeild if you re vegged for a month then flowered it..and can it be done on L.S.Td stems where there bent in weird shapes..