Revegging after harvest

[Dreadscale]

Hi all

I am slowly coming up on harvest time. I love these plants so much I want to reveg them.
Can someone please tell me how to harvest them so I can reveg the plants.
I know I have to leave a little growing material on them, but how much?

Can someone please point me in right direction?

THANKS

Dreadscale Reviewed by Dreadscale on 02-25-2008. Revegging after harvest Hi all I am slowly coming up on harvest time. I love these plants so much I want to reveg them. Can someone please tell me how to harvest them so I can reveg the plants. I know I have to leave a little growing material on them, but how much? Can someone please point me in right direction? THANKS Rating: 5

[BobBong]

Hi all

I am slowly coming up on harvest time. I love these plants so much I want to reveg them.
Can someone please tell me how to harvest them so I can reveg the plants.
I know I have to leave a little growing material on them, but how much?

Can someone please point me in right direction?

THANKS

Well, obviously you have to understand that what you're talking about will severely stress the plants. So if you have other plants in flower you want to be very cautious of male flowers growing once you re-flower them.

When and if you do decide to do this though, remember to leave as much fan leaf as possible as this is what the plant will revert back to using to absorb energy. Cut all the material at the same time or in the same sitting and let the plant recover (it'll take 2 weeks or so)

Hope this helps,
Good luck!!
Bob:stoned:

[Fencewalker]

You've motivated me to post a thread on my experiences revegging, here.

I've revegged Top44, White Widow, AK47 X Soma #10 and White Rhino with no problem with hermies.

A lot of growers that reveg leave the bottom 1/3 of the plant.

[Zcomp]

I believe the correct way to re-veg is to selectively harvest. When you cut off a large cola, the plant responds by speeding up growth to compensate for lost mass. You end up with lots of leafy growth. After you cut a cola you should give your girl a week or so to recover. Then cut the next large cola. Warning is, this will extend flowering a good bit, Then it takes at least 2 months of re-vegging to get a healthy plant again. Even then, there's a good chance that your plant either won't survive or will go hermie.

[Rusty Trichome]

What I do is...
Let her finish, harvest, then cut it back very drastically. I leave 2-4 of the smaller shoots and thier leaves. Don't leave too much of the foliage, tho. Just enough for photosynthesis. Avoid contact with the severed ends of main colas and branches, and avoid spraying with anything till wounds heal. (couple of days should be fine) Have heard of candle wax being dripped on the severed ends to seal it off from microbes and bacteria, but have never found it necessary. This applies to pithy stems, and hollow ones.
I then flush again, and start her on the veg nute regimin.
Clonable shoots in a couple/few weeks.

Sometimes the soil will peter-out half way thru the re-grow, (water will not absorb, it just runs thru the pot) and a surfactant may be necessary. 1/2 to 1 tsp or so, of dishwashing liquid (not the antibacterial kind) per gallon of water works for this purpose. Just once should do the trick.

If you are short on space in your veg room, and are quite adventurous, you could give this a go:
http://boards.cannabis.com/grow-log/...ownsizing.html
Had seen it done elsewhere, and it worked fine for me, too.
(not recommended for beginners)

[Dreadscale]

Thank you All for the great replies.

BobBong, and Zcomp great input much appreciated.
Fencewalker, and Rusty Trichome thanks a ton for the info and the links.

I am a beginner but I do feel adventurous. I am going to give it a shot, if it doesn't work out I do have some clones that survived.

My plants are super nitrogen deprived and they are nothing but buds. Nearly all the fan leafs have withered and died. I'm going to keep a log of my attempts and will post some pictures.

My fingers are crossed!

THANKS AGAIN

[Dreadscale]

I harvested my first plant today!
Hopefully I have left enough of her to reveg.
Any tips will be greatly appreciated, I still have 3 more almost ready to go.
Tips on the harvest would help also, I just cut it into pieces that would hang easily.

Did I leave enough for her to reveg?

THANKS FOR YOUR SUGGESTIONS

[Rusty Trichome]

Nice buds.

What's left looks fine to me.
Have you removed the leaf-litter, and flushed yet?
Did you decide to be adventurous and downsize, or are ya gonna leave 'em in the same pot?
Either way, you'll start seeing progress in no time. :thumbsup:

[CultureCherryPopper]

Lol, I was going to make a new thread about my experience so far with re-vegging, but I saw this and thought I'd offer my thoughts. I cut down a nice bagseed indica that was topped once, leaving two bud sites below the split. Flushed the plant with 3x the volume of the pot, then gave her my flowering solution of a high P fert and molasses. I left her in the flower room for a week, then moved her into a computer case with 3 cool white 23W CFLs. The CFLs actually fell on her the first day, partly crushing one bud site. Now, one week later she's producing the typical stress leaves in mutliple shoots. I am so fucking stoked because this was one stinky, stoney bud. So, it's been two weeks and she's well on her way back to the vegetative state. I'm currently using a 30-10-10 fertilizer at about half strength, watering only when the soil's completely dry, so every 2-3 days. Got a nice indica/sativa hybrid that I plan on revegging in the same manner to see if this procedure works well. Yay experimenting!

[CultureCherryPopper]

Dreadscale,

1. Nice avie, bro.
2. Your lady should make it; I left less bud on mine and she's got at least 5 new shoots.
3. Your plant looks like a friggin' bonsai plant. I dig it.

Just be patient and don't fiddle too much with her and let her do her thang. Oh, and since I don't feel like editing my post, I have my revegging plant under 24 hour light. Is 18/6 more optimal for reveg, or should I/we stick with 24?