Plants won't stop flowering

[stinkyattic]

Opie- looks like she's on her way. Time for a larger pot and some nice fresh soil to complete the process of convincing her to make some fat juicy shoots for clones.

[Opie Yutts]

Wow...I never even thought of re-vegging the whole plant. I usually just cut it back to about 6 to 8 inches tall (with a few leaves left on it) After that, I flush the bloom nutes out of the soil, and add my usual veg ferts, then put her under 18/6 till ready to give up some juicy clones. Usually only takes a couple or few weeks to show the new veg growth.

Hope it works out ok for ya. :thumbsup:

If I would have cut mine back to 8 inches I would have had all stem. They got a little stretched in the beginning. As long as I have the room I think that I am giving them a better chance if I leave at least half the plant, with 10 or 15 healthy leaves and 10 or 15 popcorn buds. The new growth always comes out of the buds first.

If I get a nice bushy plant maybe sometime I'll try cutting down to 8". I think it's mostly just how much foliage and buddage you leave on, not how many inches worth of stem is left.

[Opie Yutts]

Opie- looks like she's on her way. Time for a larger pot and some nice fresh soil to complete the process of convincing her to make some fat juicy shoots for clones.

Gotcha stinky. I was also thinking of a flush and a nitrogen boost. Now I'm thinking I probably don't need to flush if I go to a bigger pot. Since she's never been flushed, would it be good to flush her, transplant her, and nitrogen boost her in that order? Or just skip the flush?

What about using the same size pot, but cut the roots back as in this: mums? Would that be too much stress for a recovering budoholic?

[psteve]

Nearly all the fan leaves have died

This could be the root of your problem. Plants like to have at least 20% of their foliage left to reveg.

[Opie Yutts]

Yeah, I can believe that's true. I've always done it the way I've described above though, which results in roughly 5%. After flowering there are very few healthy fan leaves on most of my weed plants, especially in the bottom half, so that becomes an issue. Perhaps next time, on plants that I want to reveg, I will give them a little N during flowering in the hopes they won't eat the leaves so much. Never thought about trying that before. Could this be bad?

[stinkyattic]

I'd wait to make any major changes in feeding, flushing, etc. until you see some 'normal' leaves. Re-pot and water the plant in gently with water that has a drop or 2 of superthrive added to it. That will give you just a little Nitrogen and not shock the plant.

[Rusty Trichome]

I wasn't saying you shouldn't, I was just shocked that I hadn't even thought of trying it. Not really enough 'head' room in my veg closet for something that tall, but am looking forward to your next pix.

[Opie Yutts]

Cool, thanks for your help people. I will show a couple pictures if she gets going good.

[twoguysupnorth]

i ve done it succesfully twice, both times under 24 hour light. it takes about 2 wks the same you were getting with 18hrs. i had lots of bottom growth to choose from though but it was mainly all bud and a leaf or 2.

[Opie Yutts]

Update:

One of the two survived. I actually thought she was not going to make it, but just about the time the last few leaves were ready to fall off, I noticed a little new veg growth. She had been slowly growing buds without other foliage.

Here's what she looks like after she wasn't looked in on for about a week. She grew into the light and got burned, and at some point in that week the light stopped lighting. Don't know when. Why does that keep happening with my tube fluoros? The photos are after I pulled down and tied down the branches. This has been the weirdest reveg I have ever heard of.