quote=Weedhound

When you say leave the bottom 1/2 of the plant do I leave all the buds or take everything and just leave some fan leaves? I hope I don't have to leave the buds on its because then I wouldn't be able to use them right?
You donā??t have to leave any buds, but I highly recommend leaving at least 8 or 10 popcorn buds. I donā??t know what the experts have to say about this, but I have noticed that the new growth always seems to start immerging from these buds. Sometimes buds are all thatā??s left. You want to try and leave a bunch of nice big healthy leaves on the plant, but depending on the strain and the conditions this might not be possible. During flowering, especially toward the end, the plants eat their leaves so they can supply as much nutrition as possible to bud and resin production. By half, I mean I usually cut all the buds off the top half of my 3ā?? plant, and use the bottom 18ā? for revegging foliage.

Are "good leaves" the younger sun leaves?
No, good leaves in this case are any healthy ones. The more the better within reason. I usually end up with 12 or 15, but unfortunately they often yellow and die before the new growth really gets going good.

And if you had your plant on say 1200 ppm would you flush it first and then re-introduce grow nutes? And at what strength?
The problem with flushing plants that will be revegged, is the whole ā??eating itselfā? thing, like I mentioned above. Iā??m afraid flushing would worsen the situation since there are no nutrients for the plant to eat. Flushing makes leaves yellow and die faster, and you need leaves so your plant can reveg properly. Iā??m guessing that you should probably start by mixing veg and bud nutes, rather than just switching all at once. You should do this when going from veg to bud, so why not the other way around as well? I have never tried this, but it seems like it could help. Maybe I will try this next time, Iā??ve always just switched. When I switch I lower nute strength to about 1/3 for the first watering. The plant will have less leaves than normal so be careful not to over water or over feed. It will need less of each.

ā?¦triim the plant back as needed" WHAT THE HELL IS AS NEEDED? Do I REALLY have to do that??? Cuts these buds off the one by one?
Just harvest the top portion of the plant as normal, and leave the bottom 18ā? or so of foliage to deal with the reveg requirements. Leave some popcorn buds and leaves as mentioned above.

Sorry but as you can see im losing it here.
Please donā??t. Itā??s not really that big of a deal. You have knowledge of plants, just use your common sense. You know what plants do when you do different things to them. Use your best judgment with what Iā??ve given you as a jumping off point, and Iā??m sure you can get your plant growing again after flowering.

ā?¦searching hasn't really helped me one single bit....only made things more confusingā?¦
Donā??t tell, but sometimes I resort to searching outside this forum. Have you thought about Botany sites or other weed forums?

Hope that helps a little instead of causing more confusion. Iā??m no expert but Iā??ll help more if I can. Probably not much more tonight though.